Word: lyndon
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Altogether the budget was a remarkably restrained document for a President who truly believes in the power of government to do good -- the first such President since Lyndon Johnson. It showed clearly how Clinton, under the pressure of spending caps first enacted in 1990 and reinforced last year, has adopted the traditionally Republican issues of austerity and deficit reduction. "When it comes to eliminating unnecessary programs," declared Senate minority leader Robert Dole, "Clinton may enjoy more support from Republicans than from members of his own party...
...Lyndon Johnson used to say that a good politician can "make chicken salad out of chicken s." Judged by that recipe, Bill Clinton is a master -- at least rhetorically. Consider last Wednesday, when the President dealt with two substantively unrelated issues, one foreign, one domestic...
...many deconstructions that occurred in the '60s have profound reverberations now. The baby boomers a quarter of a century ago assaulted the Fathers (Lyndon Johnson and the rest) and in doing so turned upside down the American idea of male power -- that is, the idea of the legitimacy of male power. Vietnam was the funeral of the myth of admirable and legitimate male power...
...Lyndon Johnson called it a "damned little pissant country." Even less flattering language was used by many of the half a million Americans in uniform who made their way through, around and above it: trooping across swamps, languishing in Quonset huts, piloting PT boats, spacing out on drugs, shelling from offshore, amputating limbs, bombing from B-52s, killing, maiming -- and getting maimed and killed. How all that ended is well known. Bill Clinton, a college dissenter during the height of hostilities in Vietnam, showed last week that he could put a coda to that sad history and make a fresh...
...been working hard on controllingexpenses and reshaping the use of resource, notjust generating more from existing ones," saidDirector of Financial Services E. Lyndon Tefft."New and better way are always looked...