Word: lyndon
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Outside, a van promoting the renegade campaign of Lyndon H. Larouche blared the candidate’s message...
...Lyndon Larouche has promised to get rid of the so-called neo-cons,” an announcer declared...
...does on yellow legal pads. Clinton has told friends that he wants his memoirs to be like the riveting bestseller that Ulysses Grant wrote and that helped restore his tarnished reputation. (He's also said that he wants to avoid the kinds of tomes that Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson wrote after their presidencies because they had a pompous tone that missed their real voice.) There is no ghostwriter. Then Clinton goes over the sections with his editor, the legendary Bob Gottlieb, formerly of The New Yorker...
...Eugene] McCarthy had just launched an extraordinary campaign where he challenged his own party,” Jahncke says of the historic contest. “He lost in the New Hampshire primary by a hair to Lyndon Johnson, but that tally unseated...
...Moynihan is up there in my pantheon of great characters, along with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, two of the four Presidents for whom he worked. I encountered him inside the mournful White House the night of John Kennedy's assassination. He stood mute, tears coursing down his cheeks. Then he filched a picture of J.F.K. and joyfully told the world of his loving larceny. He held that picture to his heart the rest of his life. Once in Nixon's White House I listened to Moynihan expound on Schumpeterian economics while the snout of an opened champagne bottle peeked...