Word: lyndon
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...coalition reached its zenith in 1964, when the ultraconservatism of Barry Goldwater drove blocs of Democratic votes back to Lyndon Johnson in numbers that Roosevelt himself might have envied. L.B.J. took 94% of the black vote, 90% of the Jewish vote, 80% of the union vote?and 61.4% of the total vote. This coalition remains the core of Democratic voting strength today. As Hamilton Jordan, deputy campaign chairman, told TIME editors last week, "It's impossible for Democrats to win without a strong turnout from minorities. It's impossible for a Democrat to win a general election without labor support...
...worried talk that the Democrats were "a party in transition" (New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley), "a party in an identity crisis" (Connecticut Representative Toby Moffett), "a party that is struggling to find its soul" (Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Thomas P. O'Neill III). Says Eric Goldman, a former adviser to Lyndon Johnson: "The Democratic Party may have outlived its usefulness." Says Ramsey Clark, L.B.J.'s Attorney General: "The Democratic Party is a party in name only, not in shared belief...
...China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ¶ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ¶ Kipling, Auden & Co., Randall Jarrell ¶ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich Lyndon, Merle Miller ¶ Nature and Culture, Barbara ¶ Novak Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook
...every presidential ticket? The poet would be granted a guarantee of immunity, like Lear's Fool, to criticize Government policy as he wishes. The plan might open up an interesting game: select the poet who goes with the President. Thus James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter; Rod McKuen might be Carter's bard (although the President's favorite poet, officially, is Dylan Thomas). Ronald Reagan's lyricist might have been the late Oscar Hammerstein II; he would have to pick another. Eisenhower's? Edgar Guest. J.F.K.'s? Another...
Vice President Johnson's ties to the Kennedy White House were strained. Bobby and others on J.F.K.'s staff dismissed him as "Uncle Corn Pone." There is much evidence, however, that John Kennedy sincerely liked Lyndon and went out of his way to stroke his ego. There were, for example, those raucous fact-finding trips through Asia and India during which Johnson spurned State Department advice to avoid shaking hands with the unwashed masses. Nothing released his old progressive juices better than a crowd of impoverished farmers waiting for the word...