Word: lyndon
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...never reconciled himself to those who indulge. Nor is there any evidence that he has ever gone off secretly to contend, over dinner, with the forces of Washington outside the White House. "Carter is alone in this city," says a former Democratic Party official who worked for Lyndon Johnson. "Not a single Senator and very few members of the House have stood up for him. He does not have friends in other areas." This man recalls how L.B.J. once hustled off to Georgetown to sell his Great Society to a collection of reluctant corporate executives. Johnson ate and drank with...
Princeton's Eric Goldman, who once worked in Lyndon Johnson's White House, expected Carter to come a cropper from the start because, in Goldman's words, "he does not understand modern America. Carter understands small towns, not the cities." New York City University's ubiquitous and biting Arthur Schlesinger Jr. feels that Carter is something the American people produced in their exhaustion and confusion after Viet Nam and Watergate. We are in a period of "national doldrums," contends Schlesinger, and when the U.S. begins to stir again?and it will?the Carter era will be swept away with...
...LYNDON: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY by Merle Miller; Putnam; 645 pages...
...interviews. The result is documentary folklore in which the leading character-usually described as larger than life-does not stop growing simply because he is dead. Miller's Truman emerged as the most uncommon common man ever to say s.o.b. in the White House. Until, of course, Lyndon Baines Johnson. L.B. J. was, by all accounts, one of the most physically exuberant occupants of the Oval Office. He could sit a visitor down for a morning-long rundown on the intellectual capacity and personal habits of every member of the Senate. He had a grand way of picking...
...heart attack in 1955 and needed a less taxing job. But Johnson also foresaw the end of his senatorial strength. Explains Moyers, a future presidential assistant: "If a Democrat got the nomination and won the election, then that Democrat was going to be Mr. Democrat in the nation. Not Lyndon Johnson . . . On the other hand, if Nixon were President-partisan, narrow, an infighter, a vehement man, not given to collaboration . . . Johnson knew that his relationship with the White House was over...