Word: lyndon
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President Carter labels Governor Reagan a warmonger. Lyndon Johnson tried to pin the same accusation on Barry Goldwater in 1964 and won reelection, then sent 600,000 men to Viet Nam. Brian B. Tousley Monterey, Calif...
Haar, who teaches property, government finance, and land use planning, was an adviser on urban affairs to former Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson. He has maintained close ties to the Democratic Party, and has publicly supported President Carter in the upcoming election...
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell American Dreams: Lost and Found. Studs Terkel ∙ China Men. Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Island Sojourn, Elizabeth Arthur-Lyndon. Merle Miller ∙ The Soul of the Wolf. Michael Fox ∙ Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald Steel
...your Essay pairing poets laureate with presidential candidates [Aug. 25], I was surprised to find that "James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter." Why, exactly? It is true that I was asked to write a poem and deliver it at President Carter's Inauguration, which I did. I was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress during Johnson's Administration, but poets are not allowed to pick their Presidents. My political sympathies at the time were in no sense with the late President, but with then Senator Eugene McCarthy...
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich Lyndon, Merle Miller Nature and Culture, Barbara Novak No Man's Land, John Toland Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald Steel