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LIFE magazine got hold of the story, and for a brief moment, a few of the women--the media dubbed them "astronettes"--sparkled as minor celebrities. But the macho culture of the space program was too entrenched to accommodate them. Vice President Lyndon Johnson scribbled on a memo about the initiative, "Let's stop this now!"--and without much fanfare, it was stopped. The quest to put an American woman in space devolved into bureaucratic infighting and congressional subcommittee meetings, complete with cameos by John Glenn and Scott Carpenter and predictable old-boy jokes about the need for women...
...Arab League, in Abu Dhabi—described on its website “as the fulfillment of the vision of Sheikh Zayed.” The Zayed Centre holds regular lectures and symposiums, and produces publications that spew anti-Jewish and anti-American rhetoric. American extremist Lyndon LaRouche told an audience that the United States was involved in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Umayma Jalahma, a Saudi professor who has declared, “The Jewish people must obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare for holiday pastries,” was invited to speak...
From Franklin Roosevelt on, U.S. Presidents are either mysterious or unmysterious. Among the uncomplicated, unmysterious characters: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. The others--Roosevelt himself, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton (the jury is still out on George W. Bush)--confront a historian with odd opacities of character: neuroses, compulsions, contradictions or (in the cases of Roosevelt and Reagan) an impenetrable geniality. Reagan's biographer Edmund Morris concluded that the man's apparent depthlessness was itself an enigma, a kind of blank, like the whiteness of the whale...
Dallek, author of a balanced two-volume life of Lyndon Johnson, is neither debunker nor hagiologist, but rather a fairly shrewd syncretist with a certain amount of new material to bring to light. Kennedy, it may be, learned concealment from his father and denial from his mother. Jack's hidden life involved not only sexual intimacies with many women but also an enormous quantity of pain and illness. As no biographer before him has done, Dallek has assembled medical records to speculate about the effect of so many ailments and drugs upon Kennedy's conduct in the White House...
...some readers, the cover close-up of General Tommy Franks triggered a flashback to an earlier war. "Your cover reminded me of a picture of President Lyndon Johnson planning the Vietnam War," remarked a Minnesotan. "I pray that the likeness is only a coincidence." "History repeating itself?" asked a Wisconsin woman uneasily. "I hope not." A man in North Carolina felt certain in his assessment: "The resemblance is a reminder that invading Iraq and getting involved in nation building may result in another quagmire...