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LYNDON JOHNSON also seems to have thought his predecessor was a hawk, or at the very least found a justification for his own hawkishness in that interpretation. Riding Air Force One back to D.C. immediately after the assassination, Johnson writes, "I made a solemn private vow: I would devote every hour of every day during the remainder of John Kennedy's unfulfilled term to achieving the goals he had set. That meant seeing things through in Vietnam...I made this promise not out of blind loyalty but because I was convinced that the broad lines of his policy, in Southeast...
...80th birthday last week, Weston kept his vow. Surrounded by friends and family, he tossed hundreds of negatives into the living-room fireplace of his home in Carmel, Calif. Art historians and photography curators were horrified. The Center for Creative Photography, a photographic archive in Tucson, even sent a representative to Weston's home in an unsuccessful effort to persuade him to change his mind. Weston insisted that he was merely * limiting his legacy to work fashioned by his own hand...
...FAHD's surprising flip-flop may prove to be a pragmatic move. The Saudis relish their role as Washington's pre-eminent Arab partners in the Middle East peace process, so they would rather not risk embarrassing GEORGE BUSH. The $4 billion transaction would have undercut the President's vow to scale back arms sales to the Middle East and would surely launch a bruising battle between the White House and Israel's allies in Congress. The Saudis will renew their request after things quiet down, but if they have to, they can always turn to Britain for state...
...priest added that though eliminating homelessness is a tremendous task, "I have taken a vow to do it, so I look at the situation and make the best effort...
Last week, America watched Los Angeles Lakers guard Magic Johnson tell a throng of reporters and cameras that he had tested HIV-positive. We heard him say that he was retiring from basketball. And we saw him vow to join the struggle against AIDS as a national spokesperson. This time, perhaps, the demarcation between Before and After will be a more meaningful...