Word: lyndon
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Newman: I can sit here right now and tell you a story about Lyndon Johnson. I'll tell you about the falsification of the figures that makes what CBS went to press with Westmoreland look like kindergarten...
Among the protesters were Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta King, and Arlo Guthrie and Leonard Bernstein and Peter, Paul and Mary, and Democratic Senator George McGovern, who would run against Nixon in 1972, and Eugene McCarthy, who got into the New Hampshire primary in 1968 against Lyndon Johnson and helped force him to withdraw from the presidential race. McCarthy, now 75, has entered the race this year as well: he has come back like another echo...
...elections, Sen. Eugene J. McCarthycaptured 42 percent of the Democratic vote againstincumbent Lyndon B. Johnson in New Hampshire.Three weeks later, Johnson announced that he wouldnot seek re-election...
...would never do such nasty things, however, the administration has effectively called these people liars. In their defense, Amnesty International reports that more than 1500 people have died since the coup in September. Still, all these folks could be lying. And Cedras could be telling the truth. And Lyndon Larouche could be the next president...
...model for a post-New Hampshire campaign is Robert Kennedy's 1968 race. After Eugene McCarthy wounded Lyndon Johnson by almost beating the President in New Hampshire, Kennedy in effect thanked McCarthy for doing the dirty work and announced that it was time for a heavyweight to finish the job. In theory, Cuomo (or someone else) would say the same to Tsongas if he beats Clinton. The early filing deadlines and the front-loaded primary process complicate matters (by late March approximately 50% of the delegates to the Democratic Convention will have been chosen), but where there's a will...