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...became a citizen, along with his wife. "We had mixed feelings. On the one hand, feelings of sorrow at having to abandon our culture, our roots and our ancestral home. On the other hand, feelings of gratitude -- more than happiness. Those mixed feelings disappeared ten years later when President Lyndon Johnson invited me to participate in a ceremony on Ellis Island. It was then that I felt very much like an American. My buildings are thoroughly American and reflect my understanding, my first acceptance and eventually my love for this country...
...Dwight Eisenhower's reputation as a soldier, nor Lyndon Johnson's legend as a negotiator, nor Jerry Ford's square jaw, nor Jimmy Carter's celestial benevolence, nor Ronald Reagan's tough-guy threats have discouraged the terrorists of this world from striking...
Buchanan cleared his attack ahead of time with White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan. As a former aide to Richard Nixon, though, he should have realized that he was doing Cuomo the same sort of favor that President Lyndon B. Johnson inadvertently did for Nixon. In 1966 the former Republican Vice President was gadding about (with Aides Pat Buchanan and William Safire in tow) trying desperately to get some national attention, when one day he had the good luck to say something about Viet Nam that angered L.B.J. Johnson lashed out at Nixon as a "chronic campaigner" who "never...
Television Commentator BILL MOYERS at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas in Austin: "If you would go forth from here to serve democracy well, you must first save the language. Save it from the jargon of insiders, who talk of the current budget debate in Washington as 'megapolicy choices between freeze-feasible base lines.' (Sounds more like a baseball game played in the Arctic Circle.) Save it from the smokescreen artists, who speak of 'revenue enhancement' and 'tax-base erosion control' when they really mean a tax increase . . . Save it from the partisan deniers...
...Volcker has yet to convert some of his public enemies, like the followers of leftist Lyndon LaRouche. Several weeks ago, while Volcker was addressing a gathering in Seattle, one of his detractors released a sack of live rats in the auditorium, temporarily disrupting his speech...