Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring the President mentioned to his friend of 30 years, Texas Governor John Connally, that he might not run again. He voiced a similar opinion to Robert McNamara in August. In October, Johnson dictated the bare outline of a withdrawal statement to Christian at the L.B.J. ranch. Christian took the draft to Austin to show it to Connally, who was himself considering retirement after three terms...
Crystallization Point. Plainly, the President was stung by the savagery of the criticism aimed at him. Early in his presidency, he had declared: "I want to do only one thing in this job. I want to unite this country." But a few years later, during a tour of the ranch, he showed some friends a great tree and sadly told them: "This is the tree I expect to be buried under. When my grandchildren see this tree, I want them to think of me as the man who saved Asia and Viet Nam and who did something for the Negroes...
David Shetzline, 32, has wandered through the U.S.-from his birthplace in Yonkers, N.Y., to the small ranch in Oregon where he now lives. He has been a ditchdigger, an army parachutist and a college student (Cornell and Columbia). DeFord, his first novel, reflects his experience and the diversity of the nation he knows so well...
...foretaste of the campaign to come, the President zipped from his Texas ranch to Minneapolis to Washington with little advance notice. From now until November, this will be the pattern. As one Democratic official noted, "Wherever there's a luncheon or dinner when the President is in flight, there you might get an unscheduled speaker." Back in the capital, he adroitly dominated the headlines. He deployed lieutenants to key primary states. He delivered four tough speeches on the Viet Nam war in six days...
...second time occurred in 1964, when Johnson dangled the vice-presidency before McCarthy (and Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd) before throwing it to Fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey. Lyndon lavished praise on McCarthy, called him "the kind of man-as we say in the ranch country of Texas-who will go to the well with you." McCarthy went to the well with Lyndon-and got dunked...