Word: johnsonian
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...Johnsonian law will shape American life for years to come, particularly in the areas of education, social welfare and civil rights. Yet the total impact on the national consciousness was curiously slight, partly because the Great Society was not a total concept but a medley of individual programs and ideas. In the exuberance of the moment, much of the legislation passed under his leadership was too hastily conceived-the product of good will more than of good planning. Perhaps he came to office out of time, operating on Depression-forged beliefs in Government spending that no longer applied...
HISTORY and the men who record it have always intimidated Lyndon B. Johnson. His book, The Vantage Point, is a nervous bow to the Harvard faculty, and thus not very Johnsonian. The next one should be for us; a thunderous account of this incredible man's 40 years in or near the center of power. That book is bottled up in him, and the problem is getting it out in its pure state...
...seems unlikely that Nixon's attempt to blame economic troubles on the Democrats will succeed. Johnsonian fiscal programs produced inflation, but it is the Republican antidote, however necessary, that has cut profits and jobs. Therefore the key to the campaign is whether voters have been aroused enough over violence and dissent to put aside their unhappiness over pocketbook issues. The President has banked on that. The powerful campaign mounted by Nixon and Agnew has succeeded at least to the extent of keeping the Democrats on the defensive...
Initial Irritation. That is Johnsonian history. The ex-President ignores the long internal battle for Johnson's mind as related by Clifford and others. According to Johnson, there was no battle. He does not say that a draft of his March 31 speech as late as March 28 contained no mention of a bombing halt and took a hard line. Nor does he mention his three bellicose speeches given in March or his initial irritation at U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg's suggestion for a total bombing halt...
...nearly succeeded in initiating a constitutional restriction, the Bricker Amendment, that would have stopped the President from signing executive agreements with other countries. When that attempt failed, emotions cooled for a while, only to be fired once again by Viet Nam and what many felt was Johnsonian duplicity in leading the U.S. into...