Word: lyndon
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...Ronald Reagan's chief arms-control negotiator: "I think the world was ready for a Bill Clinton leadership, but Bill Clinton wasn't ready. Our President has a capacity to lead, but he started out falling flat on his face." Eugene Rostow, an Under Secretary of State in Lyndon Johnson's presidency, had similar high hopes for fellow Democrat Clinton; he now finds himself "puzzled, startled, disappointed...
...anymore. Such is the power of her personal geometry that Reno towers above the countless new arrivals to the city. The last time such a crop of eager young technocrats arrived to take over the capital, Sam Rayburn surveyed the bushy-tailed crowd and told Lyndon Johnson, "Well, Lyndon, they may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff...
...opposes many affirmative action programs, all race quotas and heavily progressive taxation, although he agrees with FDR's New Deal legislation, Lyndon Johnson's initial Great Society programs and some current initiatives such as the Women, Infants and Children aid program...
Arlene R. Popkin '68, senior trial counsel for the Legal And Society of Westchester Country, N.Y., says she was active in the civil rights movements before coming to college. And once at Harvard, she also protested the war, which she blames in large part on President Lyndon B. Johnson...
Dwight Eisenhower was right that April day in l958. Lyndon Johnson turned out to be wrong (or uncharacteristically modest), but he probably was so pleased with his position as majority leader of the Senate that for the moment he believed what he said...