Word: lyndon
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...opposite end of the Washington Mall in 1963. But ours is also a generation that has self-indulgently perverted King's call to freedom into a defense of excess, of freedom from responsibility. Our grandiose notion of ourselves was stoked by John F. Kennedy's crusading rhetoric and by Lyndon Johnson's foolishly literal attempts to turn Kennedy's idealism into action...
Goodman's parents were at the White House seeking help from President Lyndon Johnson when he received a call that the car had been found. Says Goodman's mother Carolyn Goodman, 89: "I knew [Andrew] was going into a world of risk, [that] he might end up in a jail somewhere." But not murdered. "If I were alone in a room with [Killen]," she says, "I would ask him what was on his mind" that night. "Could he tell me? Would it help...
...time to lose. The two years he has before he's perceived as a lame duck will be the most powerful period of his presidency, given his enlarged majority in Congress and the absence of any election distractions. Bush is already the most legislatively successful President since Lyndon Johnson, according to the Congressional Quarterly; roughly 80% of the legislation he supported has passed. But his domestic goals for the second term--from Social Security reform to tax restructuring to deficit reduction--mirror in ambition the foreign policy revolution of his first. In his second term, he will need to make...
...large they came to admire him as a real pro, one who was calm, cool and correct in moments of real emergency, such as the Cuba missile crisis. When Jack Kennedy died, part of Pierre died with him. Certainly the White House never again seemed the same to Salinger. Lyndon Johnson laughed at Pierre, not with...
However, this is not the first time America and the world has faced this dismal situation. Lyndon Johnson’s pursuit of the Vietnam War and the election of Nixon created a similar situation. What is needed from American students now is something similar to what the students did then. That is, to organize themselves across America and, without succumbing to the extreme radicalism that marked that era, take action to do the good things that the Bushites will not do, such as: reversing the despoilment of the environment, ensuring that large corporations, in particular drug companies...