Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assume this new posture," observed Jake Jacobsen, a former aide. In a two-hour press conference at the ranch, Johnson was by turns shy and brave, moody and fitful, wistful and uncertain. He said he was convinced that he had done the right thing in renouncing reelection last March. Only Lady Bird seemed altogether certain that she would rather be in Blanco County, Texas, than Washington. Her main problem was that all the closets seemed to have shrunk...
...President. Johnson pondered for a second and then, in a voice so low that he could hardly be heard, said that he could not answer until he sat down with his diary and looked at the events and decisions of each day. When he got out the record for March 5, 1965, for example, and examined the specifics, he said, he might ... At that point his voice became inaudible even to the reporter a few inches away...
...most Americans, March 5, 1965 is one of the less memorable dates in their history. It was, however, the last day Johnson could have revoked the decision to put a contingent of Marines ashore in Viet Nam. On March 5, 3,500 men landed five miles west of Danang in what was officially titled a "limited mission." It was, in fact, the beginning of the direct military involvement that was to place 535,000 U.S. troops in South Viet Nam and lead eventually-among a host of other things-to the retirement of Lyndon Johnson from the White House...
...Cambridge homeowners had organized the march fearing that Secretary Volpe would use his new position to push through the Inner Belt, which as Governor he had personally favored...
Carrying signs and accompanied by drum and bugle corp bands, the marchers started out from East Cambridge at 9 a.m. Saturday. As they wound through the streets the parade picked up additional marchers. The march was organized by the Greater Boston Committee on the Transportation Crises and by the Cambridge City Council...