Word: lyndon
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...could debate at length the relative merits of Humphrey and Nixon. Humphrey, once relieved of the burdens of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, might be able to lead us out of war...On the other hand, Nixon might be freer to disavow the Vietnam policies of the past...
Where Van Buren's vice president had so little to do he left Washington for a summer to run an inn, Lyndon B. Johnson headed the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities and the Aeronautics and Space Council under Kennedy. Harry Truman did not even know about the existence of an atomic bomb when he became president, but Nixon was allowed to preside over the National Security Council when President Eisenhower was absent...
There were other fighting for their party's nomination this year. Lyndon LaRouche, a Democratic contender, hasn't been heard from since the middle of the primary season; and California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. returned to his home state after bowing out of the Democratic race in March to practice maintaining a low profile. So far, he has been highly successful...
Voters weighing the risks to peace in a Reagan presidency will need to consider two related questions. Will a candidate who has sounded so belligerent actually act that way when he faces the real, rather than the hypothetical powers of the presidency? There is no way to be sure. Lyndon Johnson campaigned as a relative dove?and wound up vastly escalating U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. On the other hand, Dwight Eisenhower, a war leader, was extremely cautious as President about the use of military power and even warned about the insidious influence of a "militaryindustrial complex," which Reagan...
...disease," but the public was told that he had "a partial adrenal insufficiency." Dwight Eisenhower was the exception. After he was felled by a heart attack, he and his physicians chose full medical disclosure, issuing daily bulletins that went so far as to describe presidential bowel movements. Lyndon Johnson was generous with details of his 1965 gall bladder operation-and, as a now-famous photograph attests, he even showed off his scar for the nation...