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...model for a post-New Hampshire campaign is Robert Kennedy's 1968 race. After Eugene McCarthy wounded Lyndon Johnson by almost beating the President in New Hampshire, Kennedy in effect thanked McCarthy for doing the dirty work and announced that it was time for a heavyweight to finish the job. In theory, Cuomo (or someone else) would say the same to Tsongas if he beats Clinton. The early filing deadlines and the front-loaded primary process complicate matters (by late March approximately 50% of the delegates to the Democratic Convention will have been chosen), but where there's a will...
SINCE THE COUNCIL has such little power on campus, its shenanigans should per haps not command much attention. But as Lyndon B. Johnson used to say of his own presidency, it's the only thing we've got. So we offer a few recommendations...
Indeed, with the exception of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide, the Democrats have not captured New Hampshire's electoral votes since Roosevelt...
...pattern goes back at least 30 years. For John Kennedy, bandito Numero Uno was Fidel Castro. The Bearded One occasioned both the greatest debacle of J.F.K.'s term, the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and the most dangerous incident of the cold war, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Lyndon Johnson's presidency became a battle of wills between Johnson and Ho Chi Minh. Johnson lost. Jimmy Carter found himself squared off against the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Desert One, site of the failed attempt to rescue the U.S. hostages in 1980, was Carter's Bay of Pigs -- and, as it turned...
...year was 1968. The President was a Democrat named Lyndon Johnson. The Republican backbencher was Texas Congressman George Bush. And the "tremendous" deficit was $25 billion. Twenty-four years later, the deficit has climbed to $399 billion, and every complaint Bush lodged against L.B.J.'s speech could be applied to his State of the Union address -- which he fervently hopes won't be his last...