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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...what I try to do." He will agonize for hours over his lead. One colorful effort dramatized L.B.J.'s technique of silencing the G.O.P. by stealing its issues: "There is no other word for it-the Republicans have been held up in broad daylight by a daring political desperado from Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson has shorn them of their britches, in the patois of the Pedernales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Horizontal in Washington | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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