Word: lyndon
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...Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., LaRouche for President: A perennial candidate and former Democratic Party official, LaRouche--who was convicted of fraud and remains in prison--proposes converting the Federal Reserve into a National Bank and issuing $600 billion in low-cost credit to state and local governments for infrastructural public works project...
...sitting vice president, and no sitting vice president had captured the Oval Office since Martin van Buren did it in 1836. Plus, he was facing a Democratic Boston-Austin ticket of Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen. In 1960, this same geographical combination--John F. Kennedy '41 and Lyndon Baines Johnson--defeated Richard Nixon, the last sitting vice president to lose a presidential election. That seemed like a crippling amount of historical baggage to carry in a campaign...
...clarity, say, of saving innocent lives and gets muddled by other considerations. National security has been a notorious refuge for scoundrels who confuse their interests with their country's and therefore lie to cover up both. Convinced that winning the Vietnam War was essential to U.S. interests, President Lyndon Johnson was exasperated to learn that not all Americans agreed with him. These ignorant, shortsighted people therefore had to be protected from themselves, an end that justified almost any means. The long trail of lies and deceptions that followed is a lamentable matter of record...
...Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law major civil rights legislation that sharply contrasts his weak support of civil rights during his days on the Senate floor...
...Take Lyndon Johnson. In his career as a Senator from Texas, Johnson had a dismal record on issues of civil rights...