Word: lyndon
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...Harvard Glacier got its name in 1899 when the Harriman family--which later included W. Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state under President Lyndon B. Johnson--took a vacation in southern Alaska. They were accompanied by Harvard minerology instructor Charles Palache; John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club; an Amherst College professor; and two U.S. Geological Survey employees...
...Harvard Glacier got its name in 1899 when the Harriman family--which later included W. Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state under President Lyndon B. Johnson--took a vacation in southern Alaska. They were accompanied by Harvard minerology instructor Charles Palache; John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club; an Amherst College professor; and two U.S. Geological Survey employees...
...Clinton version goes like this: Americans are no more cynical than they have always been. Sure, Clinton is a slick politician and a morally flawed human being--but so is Dole, and so were other Republican presidential candidates of recent years. It's just that in the years between Lyndon Johnson and Clinton, the Democrats got in the habit of nominating high-minded, too-good-for-this-world types like George McGovern, Jimmy Carter and Michael Dukakis. Not coincidentally, they also got in the habit of losing elections. So finally in 1992 the Democrats nominated somebody...
...brutally that by now the two seemed to belong almost to different species. The '60s had a genius for excess and caricature. On one side, the love-it-or-leave-it, proud, Middle American, Okie-from-Muskogee, traditionalist nation of squares who supported the cold war assumptions that took Lyndon Johnson ever deeper into Vietnam. On the other side, the "countercultural" young, either flower children or revolutionaries, and their fellow-traveling adult allies in the antiwar movement, the Eugene McCarthy uprising against L.B.J., people whose hatred of the war in Vietnam led them into ever greater alienation from American society...
...true believer's ability to sell. If he, rather than Dole, can be propelled to the forefront, maybe Clinton will expire instead. "But the No. 2s never get you much," Democratic patriarch Larry O'Brien once said, as he recalled the equally odd coupling of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in 1960. "They can help some, as Lyndon did in Texas, and that's why you choose someone you can't stand. But in the end, it's the guy on top who carries you." Or doesn...