Word: lyndoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March 31, the tide of opposition to his policies and personality led Lyndon Johnson to renounce another term as President and call for a partial bombing halt over North Viet Nam. On October 31, President Johnson ordered a total suspension of aerial attacks on the North. Yet by year's end the haggling still droned on in Paris, and the bloodshed continued on the battlefields...
...students trooped forth to crusade for a candidate who, for all his dry wit and charmingly unconventional style, proved in the course of the primaries too flaccid and vague to entertain any realistic hope of capturing the popular vote. Nonetheless, it was McCarthy who showed the vulnerability of Lyndon Johnson, and after the New Hampshire primary, Robert Kennedy could no longer resist the challenge to reassert what many of his followers seriously believed to be his legitimate cause against that of the pretender Johnson...
Aboard the carrier the astronauts received a telephoned message direct from Lyndon Johnson. "You have made us feel kin to those Europeans five centuries ago who first heard news of the New World," the President said. "You've seen what man has never seen before." The next day, Johnson fulfilled a tradition by promoting Bill Anders to lieutenant colonel after his first space flight...
...Lyndon Johnson is also being urged by some of his aides to present a list of major legislative requests to the Democratic-controlled Congress. Among them: comprehensive tax reform to close existing loopholes and modify the oil-depletion allowance; an expansion of child-health programs; and a new package of consumer-protection measures, including one dealing with the quality of eggs. Even if the President were to make the requests, the chances of enacting any of them before Jan. 20 are nil. But such a maneuver would give congressional Democrats a program to work with-perhaps at the expense...
...headquarters, a number of intelligence evaluators disagree with the optimists who report directly to Director Richard Helms on Viet Nam. The CIA does, nevertheless, unite to take potshots at the DIA's overly hopeful judgments. The two intelligence agencies are in such sharp discord that when Lyndon Johnson recently ordered them to come up with a figure on the size of Communist forces, they were unable to comply...