Word: lyndon
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...LYNDON B. JOHNSON...
What he brought was a spirit of rebellion--against first the French and later the Americans. As Ho's war escalated in the mid-1960s, it became clear to Lyndon Johnson that Vietnam would imperil his presidency. In 1965, Johnson tried a diplomatic approach. Accustomed to dispensing patronage to recalcitrant Congressmen, he was confident that the tactic would work. "Old Ho can't turn me down," L.B.J. said. But Ho did. Any settlement, he realized, would mean accepting a permanent partition and forfeiting his dream to unify Vietnam under his flag...
...anything nice...Bad-mouth RICHARD NIXON never did subscribe to that. In archival material released last week, the ex-President gripes some more, about Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson's "barbaric" guests and, well, just about everything. [The agent] "could have just as easily sat in the front seat," he whines. "I, of course, was totally uncomfortable." He loved to fire off memos, once writing "Those who boycotted the Joint Session of Congress should be taken off the White House guest list, even if they had been our friends." Off a list, not with their heads...
...forefront of intellectual thought and discourse. In the 1960s, the academy published two successive issues on the state of blacks in the U.S. titled "The Negro American," which "no foundation dared to support," Holton says. However, these Daedalus issues managed to carry an introduction by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson...
...authority of reason itself. The prankster visions of the Acid Tests swirled around the stark realities of American power, and the decade found its signature moments: a flower in a gun barrel, a Defense Secretary scowling out a Pentagon window at the hippies trying to levitate his fortress. When Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, in March 1968, he was tacitly admitting that the freaks might be right. Suddenly, Richard Nixon was President, and millions of people--many of them middle-aged and middle American--were marching not only to end the war but to remind...