Word: lyndon
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...2857th Test Squadron, was stationed at Olmsted Air Force Base in Pennsylvania posing as a rescue team for military and civilians in distress. Their real mission, so sensitive that only the pilots and base commander knew, was to rescue President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- and, later, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon -- in the event of a nuclear attack. Posted outside the blast range of an atomic assault on Washington, they were to swoop down onto the White House lawn when an attack seemed imminent and spirit the President away to one of several hollowed-out mountain sites...
Negative commercials have run the gamut from benign to sledgehammer. Kennedy ran a tape of Eisenhower's inability to recall anything significant that Nixon had done as Vice President. In 1964 Lyndon Johnson became the first candidate to use the words of his opponent's challengers in the primaries, replaying what they had said as they considered the horrific prospect of Barry Goldwater's ascendancy. Does anyone doubt that Bush will find some use for Paul Tsongas' derisive description of Clinton as a "pander bear...
...really feel? Energy level and mood, which are not on the charts, are as important as blood pressure. John Kennedy's nagging backache surely encouraged his dark and fatal mood in the grim summer of 1961 and made him think a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union lay ahead. Lyndon Johnson's downer after his gall-bladder operation may have resigned him to war in Vietnam. Actually, Bush confesses a few tiny signs of his age -- but mighty...
More than 25 years have passed since Martin Luther King Jr. told America his dream and Lyndon. B. Johnson stood in Congress and stated the civil rights mantra: We shall overcome...
...same time, crediting others with good intentions is a subtle way of claiming them for yourself. After all, it is hardly necessary to vouch for the good intentions of Lyndon Johnson, who wanted to spend billions fighting poverty. The one who needs credit for good intentions is Bush, who says such efforts are unnecessary or even destructive and -- by a remarkable coincidence -- the true solutions to the problems of the ghetto are those that ask virtually nothing of the white middle class. Naturally Bush would like to stipulate good intentions all around...