Word: lyndon
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Following the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy '40. McCormack served for 13 months as both speaker and de facto vice-president under President Lyndon B. Johnson. "Though McCormack was overshadowed by Rayburn and Johnson, he was an effective...
...sense, Carter was an irrelevance to his own party. He was never a Democratic leader by either blood or inclination-not really. He never sought, like Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson, to preside as paterfamilias over the great brawling Democratic coalition, rewarding and remonstrating from the head of the table while all the family factions (workers, blacks, Jews, city dwellers, the poor, intellectuals) passed around the meat and potatoes. Carter won the White House in 1976 as a sweet-psalming loner circuit riding outside the party structures. As President, owing little or nothing to the party, he practiced a cool...
...apocalyptic prediction about the doom of the losing party. Forecasting the demise of the G.O.P., which has been in the minority in nearly all the years since F.D.R. came to power in 1933, became almost a genre of punditry. But descendants of the Goldwater expedition that was buried under Lyndon Johnson's landslide in 1964 have survived to see themselves this year proclaimed the emergent, more conservative American majority. The Democratic Party will surely endure as well...
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel ∙ Lyndon, Merle Miller Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers
...main reason for this change is the erosion of the leadership in the Congress. Party leaders have lost the power to tell their troops that something is really significant and to get them to respond accordingly. The days of Sam Rayburn, Lyndon Johnson and Everett Dirksen are gone. That has adversely affected the Congress's ability to do things even in very difficult circumstances involving the national interest...