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...Lyndon Johnson as Senate majority leader was a brilliant practitioner of the art of political persuasion, yet failed utterly to transfer that gift to the White House. In fact, says Princeton's Greenstein, L.B.J. and Richard Nixon would be labeled "worst cases" on any EQ scale of Presidents. Each was touched with political genius, yet each met with disaster. "To some extent," says Greenstein, "this is a function of the extreme aspects of their psyches; they are the political versions of Van Gogh, who does unbelievable paintings and then cuts...
More important, he was an accomplished physicist. When he was named a fellow of Harvard College, Slichter was completing a four-year stint on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Slichter says it was this experience that made him valuable to the Corporation...
...prank. Jopling was immediately swarmed by Secret Service agents and taken into custody. Although recent incidents such as the Oklahoma City bombing have increased security concerns,TIME Washington contributing editor Hugh Sideysays that people have been jumping over the fence for, well, generations. "People were doing this back when Lyndon Johnson was President," he says. "The White House is a world stage...
...tried this approach before," wrote Dean Rusk, who was Secretary of State for most of the Vietnam years, "and it had worked; indeed we had to make it work to avoid slipping into general war." Recalls McGeorge Bundy, who served as National Security Adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson: "The image of our success in Korea was much in our minds. I used to say to myself, 'We haven't lost as many as in Korea.' Then we went past that number...
Goodwin is the author of "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys" and "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. "She is a political analyst for "Nightline," "Today," Good Morning America" and "CBS Morning News," and has written for numerous publications about history politics and even baseball...