Word: lyndon
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CODOH is free to pour their $700 into copying machines. They can print up flyers and hawk them around Harvard Square to their heart's content. In fact, the Square is occasionally graced by Lyndon LaRouche supporters distributing eye-opening ideas about Jewish conspiracies, and we don't do anything to stop them...
Even smaller fabrications, such as Lyndon B. Johnson's lie about the circumstances surrounding the death of his great-great-grandfather or Jimmy Carter's assertion that he would personally open all mail addressed to him during hid presidential campaign in 1976, add to an atmosphere of acceptance concerning half-truths, Bradlee said...
...elected president four times, people start to imitate you. After FDR, everyone had to have three names. Harry S. Truman holds the distinction of being the only president to go by his middle initial and middle name at the same time. Dwight David Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard M. Nixon all used one or the other. ("Milhous," Nixon's middle name, sounded like another word for puke and looked misspelled anyway. But he had to be RMN--his autobiography is even called RMN--since FDR, JFK and LBJ had so much fun with their initials...
...since John Kennedy's time have discipline and determination been so pervasive in an administration. Lyndon Johnson managed his domestic agenda with an iron hand, but when it came to running the Vietnam War his ignorance of world affairs made him uncertain. The opposite was true of Nixon, the consummate power broker in global matters but a fellow who never mastered the folkways of the capital. And neither Johnson nor Nixon held the depth of respect from their staff that Bush now enjoys...
...possible that he could be more like Lyndon B. Johnson--a retail-politics man, nervous in front of the cameras but unstoppable behind closed doors. He'd better be, or the twin towers of the Corporation and the Faculty will get their way--and the students will lose...