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Richmond was no stranger to work in the public sector. He worked for Former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Office of Economic Opportunity in 1964, and worked to create public health programs that would aid local groups directly rather than channeling resources through state health departments...
...helped to compile the extensive study, which revealed that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution—in which Congress permitted increased U.S. military involvement in Vietnam—had been drafted months before the North Vietnamese attacked U.S. naval vessels in the gulf. It also revealed that, while President Lyndon B. Johnson had publicly described the war as a short-term battle, he oversaw a massive commitment of infantry to Vietnam...
McGeorge Bundy, future dean of the Faculty, as well as national security advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy ’40 and Lyndon B. Johnson, was then associate professor of government and engaged in almost weekly debates on the merits of academic freedom and foreign policy with prominent visitors and fellow faculty members...
...these activities as obsessions. The word has that connotation, you know: zealous, pathological--dare I say it?--nuts. This, undoubtedly, is why Robert A. Caro abjures it; says, instead, that he has spent the past 27 years writing his monumental 1,000-plus-page volumes on the life of Lyndon Johnson, with many more years in both his life and Johnson's to go, because he is "interested in how power works." Interested, indeed. Captain Ahab was "interested" in Moby Dick. "Between love and madness lies" Calvin Klein's "Interest...
...Lyndon B. Johnson, whom Galbraith ultimately clashed with in opposing the Vietnam War, was the most misunderstood man to hold the presidency, he told the audience last night...