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...brochures brag about? For what purpose did their authors toil to write them? And who needs them all? Once in a while, I'll check out a book whose last date stamp is 17 June 1965 and wonder how many other books have sat on the shelves since Lyndon Johnson was president, waiting to be taken out or even given a second glance...
...deviancy down," arguing that out-of-wedlock births, for example, had reached such epidemic proportions that Americans had lowered the threshold of acceptable moral behavior. When it comes to the highest office in the land, voters have defined the presidency down. Richard Nixon's crimes, John Kennedy's infidelities, Lyndon Johnson's ballot rigging, Ronald Reagan's and George Bush's involvement in Iran-contra--these disclosures have so eroded the moral capital of the highest job in the land that Americans expect less from the man who holds it. Dole can try to argue, as he did last week...
...Hugh O'Donnell recalls the bloody brawl he had with his farmer father before the older man laughed and said, "You're all right," and accepted his son's calling. And Moyers himself speaks up. "At 40," says the man who started his career in the public eye as Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, "I did more wounding than I was wounded--parents, brother, wife, children. At 60, I'm wounded. Once you are wounded, you don't want to wound anymore. You want to heal...
...special assistants to the President. In practice, he is Johnson's No. 1 aide...'Of every ten ideas that cross L.B.J.'s desk,' says a colleague, 'five must be Bill's.' He is the editor who hands out assignments to several speechwriters and gives their effort the penultimate polish (Lyndon, naturally, has the final say)...Perhaps the greatest measure of the President's faith in his judgment was the role he played when Lyndon Johnson underwent surgery...Somebody had to be empowered to decide whether to transfer the...presidency to Vice President Hubert Humphrey in case of a crisis. That...
...story of Lyndon Johnson's tragic decision of July 1965--the story of his reasons--has never been rightly told. I don't believe there was anything that Bundy could have said to the President that would have changed his mind. FRANCIS M. BATOR Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts...