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...freshman Congressman in 1965, Republican Barber Conable of upstate New York sat in the East Room of the White House, fascinated by the scene playing out before him. Lyndon Johnson had summoned House members for a briefing on Viet Nam. L.B.J. could not contain himself. As Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara described the war, Johnson would leap up, take the pointer from McNamara and jab it at the map. "Tell 'em what's happening here, Bob," Johnson would command. "Tell 'em what's going on down there...
Marcos himself brought a temporary halt to the rumors late last week when he appeared at a 1¾-hour Cabinet meeting in his study at Malacanang Palace. In a variation on a theme by the late Lyndon Johnson, who once publicly showed off his abdominal-surgery scars, Marcos raised his shirt to show a stomach and chest free of any signs of recent surgery. His audience laughed at the gesture, perhaps nervously; Marcos invited any Cabinet official who did not believe in his good health-and talked about itto resign...
...Lawyer David Boies promptly tried to discredit McNamara by showing that he too had deceived Congress and the public. McNamara testified that he had believed ever since early 1966 that the war was not winnable and had expressed his doubt to President Lyndon Johnson. Boies read back snippets from what McNamara had said at the time. In August 1967, for instance, he told a Senate committee that the war was "not a no-win program." When a reporter asked that same year if the U.S. was mired in a stalemate in Viet Nam, McNamara replied, "Heavens, no!" On the stand...
...months before the January 1968 Tet offensive. Westmoreland, said CBS, omitted from the order of battle, the official estimate of enemy forces, some 100,000 self-defense, secret self-defense and political cadre. Westmoreland's suit challenges the CBS charge that hi doing so he deceived President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff about the Westmoreland growing military threat facing U.S. servicemen...
Much will depend on how Ronald Reagan interprets the vote. Landslides give Presidents enormous authority, but they can lead either to disasters, as did the landslides of Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, or to profound redefinitions of American life, as Franklin Roosevelt engineered. Of course, squeakers too can change American life, as Lincoln and Kennedy proved. What is critical in both landslides and squeakers is the ability of a President to read the tides, the yearnings that went into his victory, to distinguish between his own campaign rhetoric and the reality he must force his people to face...