Word: lyndon
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Then there was the matter of pressing the flesh. Polk and William McKinley both developed extensive theories about the best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...
DIED. Ray Bliss, 73, veteran strategist of the Republican Party who, as its national chairman, played a key role in rebuilding the organization after Barry Goldwater's crushing loss to Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential race; in Akron. After working in the 1931 mayoral election in his native Akron, Bliss rose through the G.O.P. ranks to become state chairman in 1949 and three years later joined the Republican National Committee, a post he retained until his retirement from politics last year. As national chairman from 1965 to 1969, he re-established the party's ties to young...
Those who are so quick to blame Prime Minister Thatcher and her tight-fisted monetary policies for England's urban riots [July 20] forget that America's riots in the '60s took place during the spending spree of Lyndon Baines Johnson, author of the Great Society...
...kind of detail that used to be left to a flight leader was settled during the Viet Nam War by Lyndon Johnson in the White House...
...bill, whose passage experts have termed the greatest victory in Congress for a president since former President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed his Great Society program through the Senate and the House in 1965, calls for a three-year, 25-per-cent cut in federal income taxes. The bill mandates a five-per-cent reduction this year, followed by cuts of ten per cent a year for the next two years. It is expected to cost the Treasury more than $750 million in revenues...