Word: lyndon
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SINCE THE COUNCIL has such little power on campus, its shenanigans should per haps not command much attention. But as Lyndon B. Johnson used to say of his own presidency, it's the only thing we've got. So we offer a few recommendations...
Indeed, with the exception of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide, the Democrats have not captured New Hampshire's electoral votes since Roosevelt...
...pattern goes back at least 30 years. For John Kennedy, bandito Numero Uno was Fidel Castro. The Bearded One occasioned both the greatest debacle of J.F.K.'s term, the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and the most dangerous incident of the cold war, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Lyndon Johnson's presidency became a battle of wills between Johnson and Ho Chi Minh. Johnson lost. Jimmy Carter found himself squared off against the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Desert One, site of the failed attempt to rescue the U.S. hostages in 1980, was Carter's Bay of Pigs -- and, as it turned...
...year was 1968. The President was a Democrat named Lyndon Johnson. The Republican backbencher was Texas Congressman George Bush. And the "tremendous" deficit was $25 billion. Twenty-four years later, the deficit has climbed to $399 billion, and every complaint Bush lodged against L.B.J.'s speech could be applied to his State of the Union address -- which he fervently hopes won't be his last...
From a let's-beat-Bush-At-All-Costs perspective, I hope Buchanan will rake in around 37 percent. The last few decades show that no incumbent can give up that much in New Hampshire and still go on to win in November--Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Lyndon Johnson (who actually quit the race when Eugene McCarthy bagged 40 percent in the Granite state) are recent examples...