Word: lyndon
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...these stories, if true, disqualify Perot from the White House? Probably not, since the presidency was not designed for the fainthearted. Perot's will to win is indeed intense but presumably no greater than that of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson or, more ominously, Richard Nixon. Perot may be mulishly stubborn when he thinks he is right, but then so were Reagan and Harry Truman. A presidential election is, after all, a choice among available alternatives -- and right now Perot is not exactly competing against an all- star team from Mount Rushmore. Says political analyst Kevin Phillips: "If Bush...
Perot has had access to Presidents since he first visited Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. Perot was Ronald Reagan's kind of guy. Reagan appointed him to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Reagan thanked Perot for bankrolling three attempts to rescue American hostages in Lebanon. When he was Vice President, Bush arranged for Perot to have a private conversation with Reagan at Blair House to discuss American prisoners Perot believed were being held captive in Southeast Asia. Perot reported that the President had "personally asked me to stay on top of the issue." But when Reagan cooled...
PRESIDENT BUSH TOLD REPORTERS LAST WEEK THAT THE Los Angeles riots "vindicated" a critique of federal antipoverty programs he had made a year earlier at the University of Michigan -- the very place where Lyndon Johnson had launched the Great Society in 1964. "Programs designed to ensure racial harmony generated animosity," Bush had said in his Michigan speech. "Programs intended to help people out of poverty invited dependency...
...temporary control of the streets to looters and arsonists. Even as the faint traces of smoke still linger in the air, the L.A. riots have begun their transformation from grisly reality to political cliches. Beginning with White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, Republicans blamed the rioting on everything from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to liberal permissiveness. The Democratic response, from putative presidential nominee Bill Clinton on down, was equally predictable: this time the villains were a decade of Republican neglect of urban problems and the laissez-faire moral climate of the Reagan years...
...opposition candidate actually stands for, it is what he can be made to appear to stand for. The President has backed away from his spokesman's attack on the Great Society, but he has repeated the charge that Clinton represents a return to the failed, big-spending solutions Lyndon Johnson favored. As congressional Democrats propose answers that could cost upwards of $100 billion, the Bush forces are delighted. "Clinton can say, 'That's not me,' " says a White House aide, "but before he can get to what he's really for, he's going to have to distance himself from...