Word: lyndon
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...LYNDON B. JOHNSON 1964 Building civil rights and declaring war on poverty...
...someone who wrote campaign speeches for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, I naturally assumed that the publication of Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 would secure my place in history. After all, the White House taping system could easily have picked up L.B.J. saying how much he valued my speeches. It's true that he never actually used any of my speeches. On the other hand, he was known for his insincerity. I had that going...
Hersh opens the book with a description of Robert Kennedy, his brother's keeper, in the first hours after the President's assassination, ordering someone to scour the White House for incriminating files and secret tape recordings before they fall into the hands of Lyndon Johnson. What does he want to keep secret? In Hersh's book, it's Jack's long-rumored first marriage, the Mob contacts that helped him steal the 1960 election, and his history of health problems, including years of venereal disease. Then there was his real role in the murder of South Vietnamese leader...
...Lyndon LaRouche organization, a radical group that works within China, helped to mobilize the supporters. Nationalists gathered around the Lyndon LaRouche banners and speakers with megaphones from the organization...
Roger Ham, a member of the Lyndon LaRouche organization, spoke to a group in front of a banner which read "LaRouche Welcomes Jiang Zemin U.S.-China Partnership...