Word: lyndoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD NIXON conceived his presidency in contrast to Lyndon Johnson's. Nixon won the election partly because he was so successful in the use of cosmetics and electronics. In power he intended to pursue the same course. Johnson was loud, Nixon would be soft. Johnson was secretive and deceptive, Nixon open and candid. Johnson played cronyism while Nixon would seek counsel from friend and foe. Johnson became the symbol of a political manipulator, but Nixon would abandon his old style of partisanship to strike a pose as statesman of all the people. The script said in large letters: AVOID...
...geometrically. The American people know more, are troubled more. Hints of strain back then have become deep divisions in society. Yet Nixon has not tended the shop. He has not, in fact, worked hard enough at the job. That does not mean a President must shout and heave like Lyndon Johnson. But a President must stay in there and slug away from dawn to night. Take breaks, certainly. But all these experiments in running a government from the banks of the Pedernales or the Pacific shore are exercises in selfdelusion. Washington is home and office for a President...
...eight swimming pool and heard the President blame many of his Administration's problems on the Democratic-controlled Congress. The second meeting was a White House breakfast. The deliberations at such sessions almost always leak out; that is often the intention. The President's main message, echoing Lyndon Johnson, was that U.S. opponents of the war must take the blame for the war's continuation...
...Edward Sorel. Caricaturist Sorel's first cover for TIME on the leading candidate for mayor of New York City gives him one more opportunity to indulge a favorite pastime: "Making faces at some sacred cows." Earlier targets of his pointed pen have included Billy Graham, Cardinal Spellman, Lyndon B. Johnson, President Nixon and Frank Sinatra. Sorel's depiction of New York mayors past, present and possibly future is derived from Eugène Delacroix's painting of Liberty Leading the People. On the left, gazing up at Procaccino, is Mayor John Lindsay. Former Mayor Robert Wagner lies...
Nixon's draft reform bill is not new. In 1967, Lyndon Johnson submitted an identical proposal and similar changes have been called for by Senator Edward Kennedy. The Kennedy version, however, contains a triggering device that would end college deferments in time of war. Mindful of Viet Nam, Kennedy defined "war" to exist when a certain percentage of draftees have lost their lives in combat. The Nixon bill does not attempt to define what constitutes...