Word: lyndon
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Several decades ago, speaking about the vice-presidency of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson summed up his view of the job with a few, choice words: "The vice-presidency is not worth a pitcher of warm spit...
...recent years, faith in activist government has declined precipitously. The cause is not just Vietnam and Watergate but rather the fateful turn liberal activism took with Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. Not content with the great middle-class programs like Medicare, Johnson launched a War on Poverty that has since poured trillions down a vast federal sinkhole, leaving little trace -- indeed coinciding with a dramatic rise in crime, homelessness and deviancy of every sort...
Kennedy's conviction never wavered, nor did his determination. He ordered Lyndon Johnson, his Vice President and head of the Space Council, to bird-dog Congress for funds. He celebrated the early space rides of Alan Shepard and John Glenn as if they were great military victories. On space, he could sense the country uniting behind him even as other troubles mounted. "This is the new ocean," he told the people. "The U.S. must sail on it and be in a position second to none...
After president Lyndon B. Johnson launchedbombing raids on northern Vietnam and called forincreases in the draft in February 1965, smallSDS-run demonstrations cropped up across thecountry...
Friends observed that she kept "an ostrich position" with regard to stories of his infidelity in the White House. Indeed, she professed to be shocked by similar allegations by Paula Jones about Bill Clinton. But she had always been prim. Says Manchester: "She was appalled by Lyndon Johnson's earthiness. At one time he was talking about Adlai Stevenson, and Johnson said, 'You know, he squats to piss.' Jackie was horrified. She didn't know what to say. She was stunned...