Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mikhail Gorbachev is still in charge, followed by stops in Turkey and Greece. By the end of February, Air Force One is expected to be riding the billowy cumulus above Australia, headed for South Korea and Japan, leading to the dark suspicion that Bush may be trying to emulate Lyndon B. Magellan (a tag pasted on L.B.J. when he flew to Australia in 1967 and just kept going in the same direction until he was back where he started...
...presidency itself. In the splendid isolation of the White House, the best and the brightest in crisp uniforms and Brooks Brothers pinstripes can, with purpose and convincing logic, expound the virtues of force to fill the voids of doubt that come with such crises. That happened to Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam. It made so much sense...
While the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive right to declare war, events have a way of handing that power to Presidents. Relying on a decision of the U.N., Harry Truman committed troops to Korea without specific authorization from Congress. Lyndon Johnson launched his escalation of the Vietnam War from the shaky platform of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, the nearest thing to congressional approval he could point to -- or needed...
...White House he soothed the sulking Democrats of Capitol Hill. They still smarted over the fact that he had interrupted their party's long grip on the presidency. He won Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson to his side as often as not. One evening after plying L.B.J. with Scotch, Ike pointed to his own chair in the Oval Office and said, "Senator, someday you should be in that chair." Johnson roared back to his office in the Capitol wearing that tribute like a battle ribbon...
...great society dreamed of by John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and planned by Lyndon Johnson has not come to pass. America's racial problem is exacerbated by the de facto exclusion of blacks from the core of national politics, in part because, traditionally Democrats, they face an age of Republican hegemony in the White House. In an era of weakened Federal Government, blacks feel increasingly isolated. It was the Federal Government, after all, that saved them twice in history: from slavery in the 19th century; from segregation in the 20th. The reduction of that government's powers...