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AUSTIN: Tapes of Lyndon Johnson made in the summer of 1964 reveal a man who despite his successes, never really felt like he belonged out front. "The South is against me and the North is against me and the Negroes are against me and the press doesn't really have any affection for me," LBJ told associates on the tapes, newly released by Johnson's presidential library in Austin. "I don't think a white Southerner is the man to unite this nation in this hour." When it was pointed out that if he didn't run, Republican Barry Goldwater...
...year-olds, less than a third of whom voted in last year's presidential election. A generation ago, in 1972, 42% of this group went to the polls. But those were the days when young people still believed they could change the world. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson's poverty chief, Sargent Shriver, predicted the war on poverty would be won "in about 10 years." Today everyone knows better, and Gen X was molded during that learning process. "In the old days, politicians at least pretended to have principles," laments Beth Englander, 26, a former VISTA volunteer. "Now they...
Bundy became active in public life after he left Harvard in 1961, serving as National Security Advisor to President John F. Kennedy '40 and President Lyndon B. Johnson, 14-year President of the Ford Foundation and professor of history at New York University...
...1970s, when the free inquiry of the previous decade led quite a few exhausted seekers into intellectual surrender. Out from the rubble of the countercultures came such groups as the Children of God and the Divine Light Mission, est and the Church of Scientology, the robotic political followers of Lyndon LaRouche and the Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. On Nov. 18, 1978, the cultism of the '70s arrived at its dark crescendo in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 members of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple died at his order, most by suicide...
...three decades since their wartime affair, Harriman had run twice for President, been elected Governor of New York and served as a top adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Before his death in 1986, he encouraged Pamela to launch her own political-action committee and turn their Georgetown mansion into a political think tank where party officials and donors gathered to discuss issues over meals served by black-tied butlers. "PamPAC," as some called her Democrats for the '80s committee, raised $10 million for party coffers. A one-day fund raiser in 1992 at her Middleburg, Virginia, estate...