Word: lyndon
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Mailer, who took the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Executioner's Song, proceeded to recite an original unpublished one-act play titled Eart and Lyndon...
Jones, father of Peninsula contributor Adam M. Jones '92, was the second speaker of the evening. His speech used a government report on race, written by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) in 1965 and endorsed by former President Lyndon Johnson, to take a critical look at the civil rights movement and sexual liberation...
...argue that there was a government conspiracy. When Oswald, shot by Jack Ruby, wound up at Parkland, Crenshaw noted the presence of a heavyset armed man in the operating room. Moments later came a telephone call from Washington. On the other end of the line, according to Crenshaw, was Lyndon Johnson, who demanded that the medical team obtain "a deathbed confession from the accused assassin," to be recorded by the mysterious agent. When Oswald died minutes later, the man disappeared...
...policy that occurred after Kennedy was shot less than two months later. The 1,000-man withdrawal went ahead, but instead of full units departing, it "was turned into a meaningless paper drill" by counting individual soldiers who were due for rotation. In addition, four days after taking office, Lyndon Johnson signed a new memo -- NSAM 273 -- that Newman shows was subtly but significantly different from the version Kennedy had been contemplating: among other things, it allowed U.S. involvement in covert actions against North Vietnam...
...Terkel, the consensus is not out of line with what most readers, North, South, East or West, already feel in their guts: that race relations and perceptions of them are more confusing and emotionally complex than they were in the hopeful days of the civil rights movement and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs...