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DIED. RUFUS YOUNGBLOOD, 72; Secret Service agent who threw himself over Lyndon Johnson for protection when President Kennedy was assassinated; of lung cancer; in Savannah, Georgia...
...this year's landmark telecommunications law and helping him raise as much as $5 million for his re-election bid. And he is running in a state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats 49% to 41%. South Dakota hasn't given its three electoral votes to a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson...
When President Lyndon Johnson created affirmative action, he surely wasn't thinking, "Now I believe I'll profoundly subvert the spirit of the Civil Rights Act, the crowning achievement of my life, which became law only a year ago." Instead, the idea was that custom, ethnocentrism, poverty, bad schools, old-boy networking and a host of other factors would conspire against the new civil rights of African Americans and any real socioeconomic advancement. So L.B.J. compelled government and its contractors to look a little harder for blacks to fill job openings. Thousands of private organizations instituted affirmative-action plans...
Kennedy, the most strident of the speakers, declared his support for the 1960's programs of Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson, policies which established the present public housing system...
...Adviser, transforming the job into the powerful fiefdom it has been ever since. It was a heady time as Bundy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and others exuberantly conceived limited-war options and counterinsurgency theories. Their intellectual firepower dazzled much of Washington, though Sam Rayburn did grumble to an awed Lyndon Johnson, "I'd feel a whole lot better about them if one of them had just run for sheriff once...