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...gentle astronomer John Hagen supervised the design of the Vanguard's rocket, technically far superior to the Soviet boosters. It lurched and blew up on the pad. Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson raged, "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's satellites...
...marched on into space, but then real tragedy struck during Lyndon Johnson's presidency. Astronauts Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chafee were suffocated in their capsule by an internal fire. Johnson was devastated. He was no stranger to failure, yet he apparently never believed death could be associated with such a noble effort. But he did not pause long. He drove ahead and drove everybody with him. Success in space began to outweigh the delays and frustrations. Mired in the Vietnam mess, Johnson sought solace in the space exploits. At one point he muttered, "Thank...
...then the publisher. "In later life, it seemed that Trent felt he 'had something on me,' when he would share the fact that he and I had been on the same side in the national fraternity debate," says Johnson, who later went to work as an aide in Lyndon Johnson's White House and more recently helped lead the battle to have the confederate battle flag removed in Georgia. Johnson recalls of Lott back then: "He was against integration. I was against splitting the fraternity. Yet my vote had the same impact and is subject to the same interpretation - that...
DIED. GEORGE CHRISTIAN, 75, last press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson; of lung cancer; in Austin, Texas. Johnson called Christian--a loyal, easygoing fellow Texan--"unflappable George," while others labeled him a yes-man. Still, he won admiration for his evenhanded treatment of reporters, whether friend...
...among other things, regulate blood sugar and the body's response to stress. The treatment? More corticosteroids. In the years that followed, as he rose from Congressman to Senator to presidential hopeful, Kennedy denied rumors of Addison's, some of them passed along to reporters by political opponents like Lyndon Johnson. He finally admitted to it in 1960, more or less, when he issued a statement acknowledging an "adrenal deficiency...