Word: lyndon
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Here in America, we make a firm distinction between good old honest cheating and dirty cheating. Honest cheating is the kind of all-American swindling we're comfortable with: Mayor Richard Daley rustling up dead men's votes for John Kennedy; Lyndon Johnson twisting arms and paying out ready cash to win his first Senate election. That's good old-fashioned cheating, the kind that uses money and muscle...
Ever since Ho Chi Minh's 1968 Tet Offensive helped force President Lyndon Johnson out of that year's presidential race, the more sophisticated among America's enemies have paid close attention to U.S. domestic politics. And right now, they may like what they see: a nation of unrivaled power unable to choose a leader...
...than first." People lose elections, and negative ads serve the positive purpose of clearly arguing which candidate should. As this magazine's TV critic, I always like to see a new generation pay homage to the classics; for instance, that pro-Bush group's "remake" of Daisy, the 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson ad that targeted Barry Goldwater as a dangerous extremist. Both ads cut from a little girl picking petals off a daisy to footage of a nuclear explosion. The new version accused Clinton and Gore of making America vulnerable to nuclear attack from "communist red China" (reminding voters under...
...first time I ever heard my mother sound nervous was last July, and by then she had been dead for two years. I was at the L.B.J. library in Austin, Texas, listening to a telephone call she had placed to President Lyndon Johnson more than four years before I was born. "Nancy Dickerson is on line two," begins the White House operator. Johnson picks up: "Yes, honey." She tries to start with a joke, but it warbles out: "The next time I need a new swimming suit I'm going to consult you." The President is silent, having forgotten...
Others who fit this mold include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and, of course, President Clinton...