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Reagan's margin, 525 electoral votes to 13 for Mondale, was exceeded in modern times only by Franklin D. Roosevelt's 523-to-8 crushing of Alf Landon in 1936.* As of Wednesday morning, Reagan was winning 59% of the popular vote, a share not much below Lyndon Johnson's record 61.1% in 1964. Ironically, Reagan came close to the 63% vote garnered two days earlier by the Marxist Sandinistas in a Nicaraguan election that Washington had denounced as rigged. Mondale was left with ten electoral votes from his home state of Minnesota and three from...
...nastier comics referred to it as "the drool factor." His mind wandered, some said, and he got the facts wrong. In splendidly backhanded defense, Reagan supporters said it was not age: Reagan has always been sloppy with the facts. During the mid-'60s, Americans sometimes supported Lyndon Johnson's actions in Viet Nam by saying, "Well, the President has more information than we do, and so can more readily make these decisions." The implicit line of some of the Reagan defenders was the reverse: that the President has a mind unencumbered by facts-the sort of details, they...
More significant, however, are the Republican gains in the House of Representatives, a marginal 14 seats. In the 1932 elections--the year of the last "realignment"--Roosevelt and the Democrats gobbled up 97 seats. In 1964, the year in which the liberal agenda gained widespread acceptance in the U.S., Lyndon Johnson led the Democrats with a 37 seat surge. More so than the Senate, the House tends to mirror partisan trends on a national level. And this year, the nation stated that it loves its president but holds no allegiance to his party...
Since, "you can't be young and miserable forever," as she puts it, Martin eventually won an assignment to report on the Washington social circuit. She enjoyed "that nice, healthy vulgarity" of the Lyndon Johnson regime, particularly when L.B.J. invited her and several other women reporters at a White House party to come upstairs. "We stayed for two hours, eating popcorn from a silver bowl, while he swore he had never wanted to be President...
Walt Rostow, an archetype of the best and the brightest, spoke slowly and carefully, recalling in vivid detail a meeting that took place in April 1967. General William Westmoreland, then commander of U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, had asked for 200,000 more troops. President Lyndon Johnson and top aides pressed for a date by which the American forces would win. As jurors in a Manhattan federal courtroom listened intently, the former National Security Adviser said he had no recollection of Westmoreland's having offered misleadingly hopeful "good news." The exchange was subdued but freighted with drama. This...