Word: lyndon
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...active in Democratic politics. He joined the 1958 gubernatorial campaign of Pat Brown, following Brown to Sacramento as his special counsel. He went off to Washington in 1967 as Deputy U.S. Attorney General. Assignments to help calm the riots in Detroit and Washington brought him into close contact with Lyndon Johnson's personal envoy, Cyrus Vance...
Most Americans have neither the bods nor the boodle to dress in the presidential fashion. Nor does White House style necessarily impress the populace. No one stormed the stores for Jimmy Carter's cardigans or Lyndon Johnson's baggy pants. On the other hand, Jack Kennedy's two-button suits (whose looser lines he adopted to disguise the back brace he often had to wear) set a fashion for two decades. Jackie's Halston-designed pillbox hats were as common as canapes at cocktail parties of the '60s. If the Reagan look does not incite...
Young and Crippen are just two of the 80 astronauts now being trained for shuttle flights at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. Most were selected from more than 11,000 applicants over the past three years. Of the group, 47 are pilots and the rest are mission specialists-mostly scientists and physicians who will operate the equipment aboard the shuttle. The trainees include eight women, three blacks, one Hispanic, and the world's first husband and wife astronauts, William and Anna Fisher...
...then there was the Carter family. Sister Ruth, who hobnobbed with Billy Graham and his ilk, and, like her brother, was a born-again Christian. And of course, brother Billy, the greatest filial embarrassment to hit the White House since Sam Houston Johnson moved into the White House so Lyndon could keep an eye on him. Billy, who declared his dislike for Blacks; Billy, who loaned his name to a (bad) brand of beer; Billy, who picked up a stack of money from Col. Khadafy and the Libyan gang. Billy, a loud, obnoxious, good ol' boy who pissed on airport...
There is absolutely no correlation between long hours of desk drudgery and success in the presidency. It was Lyndon Johnson who instituted the two-days-in-one work routine, claiming prodigious achievements that began at 10 a.m. and ran until 4 p.m., then a two-hour nap, followed by work from 6 p.m. to midnight or so. Secretaries and assorted aides came in two shifts. There is the faint suspicion that if Johnson had throttled back a bit, we would be in less trouble today...