Word: lyndoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman...
...TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON, by Eric F. Goldman. Instant history, like instant coffee, can sometimes be remarkably palatable. At least it is in this memoir by a former White House aide who sees L.B.J. as "an extraordinarily gifted President who was the wrong man from the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances...
NONFICTION 1. The 900 Days, Salisbury (1) 2. The Money Game,'Adam Smith'(2) 3. The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Goldman (4) 4. Thirteen Days, Kennedy (9) 5. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (3) 6. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester (8) 7. Instant Replay, Kramer (5) 8. The Trouble with Lawyers, Bloom 9. The Day Kennedy Was Shot, Bishop (7) 10. The Intimate Enemy, Bach and Wyden...
...first Safeguard bases would be a few miles south of the Canadian border, and since Chinese or Soviet ICBMs would come in over the North Pole, the nuclear-armed ABMs sent to intercept them would probably be detonated over Canada. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was kept posted of Lyndon Johnson's Sentinel plans, but he was not informed in advance of President Nixon's switch to Safeguard. In an emergency debate in Ottawa, Socialist Leader Tommy Douglas protested: "Canada is not a banana republic...
...children's literature, the portentous generalization can tempt him: "In the last fifty years we have contributed relatively little in the way of new ideas of any sort. From radar to rocketry, we have had to rely on other societies" etc., etc. Sarcasm betrays him into rhetorical flourishes: Lyndon Johnson is "the Great Khan at Washington"; objection to John O'Hara's handling of sex is archly laid to the "Good Gray Geese of the press...