Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kovic, the Vietnam vet whose life was portrayed in the movie Born on The Fourth of July picked up 36 votes while wheeling around on the fringe in New Hampshire. And former Senator Eugene McCarthy, who knocked Lyndon Johnson out of the race with his strong New Hampshire showing in 1968, picked up a mere 211 votes and scant attention this time around...
Berlet charges that the NAP is a "totalitarian cult organization" with ties to such political extremists as Lyndon LaRouche...
...looms like a pale ghost from an earlier political era, moving from table to table at a campaign function. When he lingers near one table, there is an uncomfortable silence before someone from a group of reporters asks, "Care to join us, Senator?" Twenty-four years after he ended Lyndon Johnson's hopes for a second term by getting 42% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, Eugene McCarthy is running for President again, and no one seems to care...
...Lyndon Johnson was a segregationist. He also led filibusters against civil rights bills, but later on he got them passed. So I have been in the same position that he has been in. He's been rehabilitated, so I should be also. In the long run, it doesn't make all that much difference, because I know that I love every citizen of Alabama, black and white...
...anger, disgust and pain that was above everything else a warning to George Bush, a kind of political death threat. New Hampshire's Republicans gave only 53% of their vote to the incumbent President -- a stroke of lese majeste that distantly recalled the 50% that New Hampshire Democrats gave Lyndon Johnson in 1968, when Eugene McCarthy took 42% and helped force L.B.J. to withdraw...