Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those freewheeling good times are distant now. His health is good, his career robust, but Vidal seems like a lion in winter. He feels that the populist causes he fought for all his life died with Lyndon Johnson. He is confident that Bush will lose the election, largely because of his stand on abortion, but he despairs of Bill Clinton's shaking up the economy sufficiently or reversing the incursions on civil liberties and women's rights made in the name of family sanctity by what he calls the Party of God, consisting mostly of Republicans, but Democrats as well...
...Lyndon Johnson...
...Lyndon Johnson...
...American background. A certain unease with grownups maybe: in JFK, Oliver Stone took apart a representative American myth with a chain saw and reassembled it in strange shapes. During the '60s, the boomers watched in some wonder as American authority (the university system, for example, and the presidency of Lyndon Johnson) seemed to fall before them. But they have been slow to install their own authority in its place...
...airing their games in the same cities. Perhaps the dispute is a matter of style. It could be that Vincent's policies don't bug the owners so much as his firm and frosty belief that he has the power to make policy. He also is cursed, as Lyndon Johnson was, because he succeeded a beloved chief executive who died too young and in office...