Word: lyndoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conciliator. As TIME Correspondent Hayes Gorey notes, Hubert Humphrey is deeply grateful to Lyndon Johnson for having elevated him to the second highest office in the land and given him a crack at the first. Yet his gratitude may be misplaced. It was Johnson who years ago in the Senate played a major role in persuading Humphrey "to stop kicking the wall," as Hubert puts it; to abandon solitary crusades for hopeless causes. Once he grasped the lesson, Humphrey advanced to Senate majority whip and then Vice President under Johnson's tutelage. He also took on a good deal...
...Thurmond's Dixiecrats. He showed foresight when he crusaded for Medicare 15 years before it became law and proposed a Peace Corps nine months before it was established. His peace credentials, validated in the struggle for enactment of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, were always gilt-edged?until Lyndon Johnson and Viet Nam happened along...
Having chosen the role of soother and persuader, he is puzzled nonetheless when people do not identify him with the creative, combative politician of yesteryear. After four years as Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, his public persona is that of a subordinate and apologist. It has become increasingly difficult to think of him in such terms as leader, fighter, innovator?which are precisely the terms in which he thinks of himself. He argues these days, urgently and almost desperately, that he is too his own man; that he can too be a strong, forward-looking President. Perhaps. But in order...
...Robert Kennedy, who, as everyone had pointed out, would wait four more years-but then rushed into the race after McCarthy's victory. Not Lyndon Johnson, who, as practically everyone had" been betting, would run again-but who then announced his abdication and partial de-escalation in Viet Nam. (Everyone had learned to expect such sudden surprises from 1968, and from L.B.J., that till the last moment there was doubt if he really meant...
...What is Secretary of State Dean Rusk's idea of a vacation?" runs a current Washington gag. Answer: "He puts on a sports shirt and goes to the office." Only by exercising their ingenuity do any members of Lyndon Johnson's Cabinet beat the system to organize makeshift vacations for themselves. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd forgets horsepower and highways by bicycling on towpaths along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen cuts wood to "work up a good sweat and work off my hostilities," while Interior Secretary Stewart Udall makes it part...