Word: lyndon
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...much inclined to author legislation, Rostenkowski over the years has built a reputation on the Hill as likable, earnest, cautious,and absolutely trustworthy. Among the show horses of Congress, he is a workhorse. Rostenkowski was close to his goal of becoming Speaker when the 1968 Democratic Convention intervened. Lyndon Johnson, watching the convention slide into disarray as violence escalated in Chicago's streets, phoned Rostenkowski from Texas and told him to take charge. Rostenkowski did, but only after snatching the gavel away from embarrassed Majority Leader Carl Albert. Two years later, Albert, then Speaker, vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination...
...changing their election laws without prior approval from the Justice Department or a federal court. The snail's pace with which the legal system operated made it necessary to shift the power to act in voter-discrimination cases out of the courts into the hands of the executive. President Lyndon B. Johnson...
...single most important piece of civil rights legislation, other than the constitutional amendments, in the history of the country." So says Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, referring to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. First proposed by Lyndon Johnson, the act was passed overwhelmingly by Congress after a voting rights drive in Selma, Ala., led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had ended in violent clashes between blacks and white police. The landmark law, which was renewed in 1970 and 1975, abolished literacy tests, forbade any other barriers to the registration of black voters and required six Southern states with...
...take stock of the start, but it is an uncertain guide to a President's success. John Kennedy's 100 days were unrelieved disaster and hesitation, and his temper suffered accordingly: "I'm going to give this damned job to Nixon," he once said. It took Lyndon Johnson a year to spawn the Great Society, Richard Nixon three years to engineer the opening to China...
About the only measure we can take of this delicate time in Reagan's battle stewardship comes from the after math of John Kennedy's death and the days following the attempts on the life of Gerald Ford. Lyndon Johnson, though not wounded in the Kennedy shooting, was made aware of his own vulnerability. Aides remember that he took precautions about his safety, but his sense of political urgency heightened. What time he had in the White House he wanted to use totally for his Great Society goals...