Word: lyndoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blades of the backup helicopter for President Nixon's Marine One whirred to a stop, the chopper door popped open, and out onto the brand-new White House West helipad stepped the whole Johnson family: Lyndon and Lady Bird, Pat and Luci Nugent, Major Charles Robb and Lynda. They had come all the way from Texas for the latest extravaganza by Richard Nixon Productions Inc., a 61st birthday moveable feast for L.B.J. that started in San Clemente and ended in the new Redwood National Park, 800 miles farther up the California coast. It was an unlikely summit meeting between...
...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1968, by Theodore H. White. White is just as diligent as he was when recounting the victories of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. But this time his protagonist lacks the flamboyance to fire up White's romantic mind, and as a result a slight pall hangs over much of the book...
...still come home to Oswego and Oakland from Cu Chi and Da Nang; yet the nation has decided, without its President's precisely saying so, that it is all over except for a bit more shooting. After the prodding rhetoric of John Kennedy and the strident goading of Lyndon Johnson, Americans, for the moment, are at unaccustomed ease...
...Francisco dinner was a pleasing departure from the more familiar Washington diplomatic divertissements. Yet it was only a prelude to an even more unusual get-together. This week, the President plans on throwing a birthday party for Lyndon Johnson. At Nixon's invitation, the ex-Chief Executive will come to California to celebrate his 61st birthday. There Nixon intends to present his predecessor with a thoughtful gift. He is going to dedicate "Lady Bird Grove" in Redwood National Park in tribute to the former First Lady's efforts to beautify the nation...
...judgment when he accepted a retainer from the foundation of Financier Louis Charles Wolfson, whose case was due for review by the court. Yet Fortas might have been able to keep his seat on the bench if he had not been associated with the wheeler-dealer politicking of Lyndon Johnson, or so closely identified with the liberal, activist opinions of the Warren court...