Word: lyndon
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...military-industrial complex. In a key scene, the crusading D.A. has a rendezvous in Washington with a mysterious unnamed figure who describes how security for the President's visit to Dallas was slackened. It was all part of a plot, he tells Garrison, to eliminate Kennedy and put Lyndon Johnson in office so that the Vietnam War could be escalated. "This was a military-style ambush from start to finish," Garrison tells his staff later, "a coup d'etat with Lyndon waiting in the wings...
...University of Texas you teach a course called "Political Values and Ethics" at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. How do you instill a strong sense of ethics in young people interested in public service...
...since then has served only nine months in public office. The most compelling chapters in his book cover 1968, when, as Secretary of Defense, he overcame much of the Washington foreign policy and military establishment in the "war for the President's mind." He and a few allies persuaded Lyndon Johnson to try to "extricate our nation from an endless war." Vietnam, Clifford argued, was "unwinnable at any reasonable level of American participation...
They hobnobbed with Roosevelts and Kennedys, counseled Adlai Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson, entertained the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. At their hereditary mansion they favored English butlers and European decor; even the family charades grew so elaborate that they were pictured in LIFE magazine. But for all this golden splendor, the Binghams of Louisville were not precisely household names, unless your household was in Kentucky, where they owned the dominant newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. The papers built, then eroded, a name for excellence; they promoted liberal orthodoxy and civic virtue, but had scant national profile. Thus...
When he died in 1973, former President Lyndon Johnson left behind an assortment of thriving Texas broadcast and real estate properties that in 1985 was valued at more than $100 million. But now the LBJ Co., owned almost entirely by the Johnson family, is being dismantled for far less, a victim of the state's economic bust. KLBJ AM-FM, the highly profitable Austin radio . station once valued at $27 million, is on the block for $13.5 million. Thirty cable-TV systems may bring $50 million...