Word: lyndon
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Judging the temper of a President is tricky business. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara grew weary and disillusioned over the Viet Nam War. He brooded about resigning, then began to mention it to friends. Lyndon Johnson, who had called McNamara his right arm, wanted to listen to none of this resignation nonsense-up to a point. But then one day in the winter of 1967 L.B.J. startled everyone, especially McNamara, by accepting his resignation. McNamara's mind told him resigning was right, but his heart was troubled. Somehow the resignation was not meant to have been handled just that...
...warning came last week from an experienced hand, Bob ("The Blowtorch") Komer, former New Frontiersman for John Kennedy, former Great Society warrior for Lyndon Johnson, former Under Secretary of Defense for Jimmy Carter. Said The Blowtorch, a man who is proud of his compassionate past and concerned about the perilous future: "If we don't first take care of the economy and our national security, there ain't going to be school lunches for anybody...
...What the President had in mind was great paintings of an earlier West, scenes by the likes of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and Charles Russell. Reagan wants the Western feel with class. Curiously, Reagan balances this new formality with his own habit of doing things himself. The sight of Lyndon Johnson sticking out his hand and a hovering steward thrusting in a fresh drink is still remembered around the White House. Reagan gets his own glass of water, when he can. "In the White House there is a fellow there to throw the logs on the fire," he complained last...
...radicalism, Reagan's plan calls for something much less than a repeal of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, let alone Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Among the spending programs that Reagan picked as targets, only a few would be axed completely; most of the others would not only continue but would grow, albeit more slowly. Indeed, total federal spending and tax collections would both rise, propelled by the inexorable forces of population and business growth, and an inflation that may diminish but will not go away. Total federal expenditures, by Reagan's own figure, would rise...
These drab monthly rituals have been going on for 16 years at centers like the schoolhouse on West Byers Place, ever since the Department of Agriculture expanded its food stamp program as part of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Currently, 12.5% of Denver's residents use the program (the nationwide figure is 10%), which provides an average of $ 138 a month to 24,000 households. Denver is a boom town. Yet because it is an urban area with lots of poverty as well as wealth, as many as 60,000 people there now depend on the stamps...