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Plot. Few Presidents have escaped vilification while in office, but L.B.J. got more than his measure. He was denounced as vain, tyrannical, vindictive, sly, crude. The attack was so harsh and sweeping because Lyndon Johnson resembled a cast of characters more than a single person...
Warren Beatty. He's so vain that the song is apparently about him, at least according to Stephen Davis. Of course the whole thing's completely unverified, mere rumor, but the profile of Beatty in a recent Walter Scott Personality Parade makes him sound like a swell candidate. Anyway, good to see healthy revelation coming in with Ma Nature's second half offensive. This weather's going to make it real hard to change the shredded front tire on my car. To the music...
Abbot Lawrence Lowell was President of Harvard in the 1920s. He was a brilliant, capable, often inspired, vigorous, and widely respected college president. He was also vain, stubborn, bigoted, and capable of immense pettiness. Lowell sent Harvard students across the River to scab during the Boston Police strike of 1919. He served as chairman of a Commission which upheld the convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti. He also expanded and developed the curriculum, upgraded the faculty, introduced order into Eliot's elective system, and conceived and constructed the House System. In the Lowell years, in turn. The Crimson seemed to reflect...
...sorrowfully, that we have forgotten our ancient tradition of liberty and of strength, bending our knees in idolatry to the false gods of Mammon. They have said we no longer remember how the victorious fight. But now that we have conquered our hesitancy, now that we have conquered the vain idealism of peace, we will go into war as we have always gone into war: seeking no end but the utmost end, stopping not one stride short of victory. We will put a new idealism into the conflict of national ideals, so that other peoples may know the greatness...
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia, to see the total eclipse of the sun . . . You're so vain.-Carly Simon, singing the rock hit You're So Vain...