Word: lyndon
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...hint of aristocratic idleness. The summer retreats of past Presidents have provided a setting where they could show themselves off in this light. John F. Kennedy went to Hyannis Port and sailed in all weathers; at his ranch in Texas (the Texas White House, as it was known), Lyndon Johnson hunted deer; Richard Nixon spent weeks every summer at his large house by the Pacific in San Clemente (or the Western White House, as it was known) indulging in Californian luxuriance; Ronald Reagan visited his ranch in California faithfully each August, where he rode and cleared brush and chopped wood...
Even if Clinton had planned his vacation in a more organized and less comic fashion -- if he had lined up that condo on Hilton Head Island in March -- he would not have taken full advantage of the opportunity an August progress can provide. When columnist Stewart Alsop visited Lyndon Johnson at the L.B.J. Ranch while Johnson was President, he was driven to make the most unlikely comparison: the L.B.J. Ranch, it occurred to him, had "odd echoes of Chartwell," the country place of Winston Churchill. "Mr. Churchill was marvelously and unashamedly proud of everything about Chartwell . . ." Alsop said years later...
What Vince Foster seemed to be discovering was the old and tarnished coin of the realm. In a memorable description of Washington, William Manchester (The Death of a President) wrote 30 years ago, describing Lyndon Johnson, that he thought the shortest distance between two points was through a tunnel. Foster found the tunnel, but he did not like the shadowy creatures he found down there...
...pressures and perils of working there -- he has never lost his fascination for what he calls "the machines and methods of America: mining, cattle ranching, plows, the things that make this country work." As a journalist new to the Capitol, he was once approached in a Senate hallway by Lyndon B. Johnson, then the majority leader: "He stared at me down that long nose of his and said, 'I've never known a reporter without a character flaw. What's yours?' " Sidey did not confess then, but he is willing to come clean now: "I've always been more interested...
...cuts and incentives for business, dined at the White House last Thursday night but was surprised to find that Clinton didn't ask him for his vote. "There was not a word said about the budget bill," said Lieberman, who attended the same dinner. "If this had been Lyndon Johnson, we would have been pulled into a private room...