Word: lyndon
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...would the hardship of a prolonged confrontation be confined to Iraq. Although Bush, much like Lyndon Johnson during Vietnam, has sought to downplay the domestic costs of Desert Shield, he will not be able to do so for long. The fear of war alone was enough to push financial markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan into a deep slide, a mere foretaste of the worldwide economic disaster that would occur if an all-out war erupted, involving not just the U.S. and Iraq but Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries -- perhaps including Israel -- as well. The call...
...disappointed the Presidents who appointed them. Earl Warren and Brennan dismayed Ike with their liberalism, but theirs was the clearer view of the country. Warren Burger, who wrote the opinion that freed up the Watergate tapes, was appointed with much fanfare by Richard Nixon himself. Arthur Goldberg resigned at Lyndon Johnson's urging to become United Nations ambassador. L.B.J. twisted the arm of his crony Abe Fortas and put him in Goldberg's place. But when he tried to move Fortas up to Chief Justice, the fear of cronyism generated so much opposition that Johnson abandoned the maneuver. Later, because...
...clay-poor Georgia farm boy, Dean Rusk tells with self-effacing charm how he hustled to get an education (Davidson and Oxford) and endured World War II service as an infantry staff officer. John Kennedy surprised Rusk, and most everyone else, by making him Secretary of State, and Lyndon Johnson kept him on. The cold war convinced Rusk that free nations must hang together in a nuclear age. So when Communist forces threatened South Vietnam, the Secretary saw no alternative but to send help. "Our honor as a nation was at stake," he says, though he admits, "I overestimated...
...Imelda has seen her former life of glamour, riches and power reduced to shards. Impassive and wan, her face puffy, she is a long way from the days when she was runner-up in the Miss Manila beauty contest, or danced cheek to cheek with President Lyndon Johnson, or took the microphone to croon for state visitors at the Malacanang Palace, or dazzled foreign capitals in her exotic Philippine gowns. Back then Imelda was a force to be reckoned with -- governor of the Manila district, Minister of Human Settlements. There was even talk that she might succeed her husband...
King's wife spoke in her husband's place, and used the occasion to criticize President Lyndon B. Johnson's response to the murder both of her husband and of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy...