Word: lyndon
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Hence, when it comes to getting their way and making their mark, totalitarians have a perverse advantage over even the most strong-willed democrats. At some point in their careers, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Lyndon Johnson and Margaret Thatcher all unwillingly became private citizens because their constituents decided it should be so. Ending Hitler's chancellorship required a global conflagration...
...Lyndon Johnson feel that you'd misled him, that you had led him to believe the war could...
...Bush went down a straight road to battle. There have been no black moods for Bush as there were for John F. Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis when he believed there was a likelihood of a nuclear exchange. Nor has Bush wandered through the darkened White House as Lyndon Johnson used to do, as much confused by his own experts as by his enemies in Vietnam. Richard Nixon sometimes sought solitude and brooded for hours over decisions on using $ American power. Bush sought out friends and Chinese food...
...Thurow's notion of a "zero-sum society" is instructive here. America faces long-term structural problems that cannot be solved without making people worse off in the short run. Unfortunately, the political climate of the last 25 years has encouraged us to resist this conclusion. Ever since Lyndon Johnson told us that we could have both guns and butter, voters have placed a high political premium on hiding the bad news, and politicians have invented ingenious methods of concealing...
...last time the U.S. tried "to preserve our national honor as guarantor" was during the Vietnam War. This objective, according to a memo from Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton to Lyndon B. Johnson, was the prime motive of U.S. intervention in southeast Asia. He thought a pullout would irreparably damage U.S. credibility throughout the world. So the U.S. remained in Vietnam. Ultimately, U.S. credibility was damaged precisely because it chose...