Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homework, even ran into a snag over Senate confirmation of his appointment. Gates had upset the Senate Armed Services Committee by testifying last fortnight that the U.S. had reduced its estimate of future Russian missile production by judging Russian "intentions" instead of "capabilities." One day last week Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson announced casually that Gates's nomination was going to be held up because "several Senators" had questioned it (actually, only Wyoming Democrat Joe O'Mahoney, recovering from a stroke at the Bethesda naval hospital, had asked for an additional day to study Gates's testimony). Just...
...Jack and handsome Wife Jackie flew out to Milwaukee to make the official announcement, also confirm previous plans to enter Nebraska's nonbinding primary. Plain-spoken as always, Kennedy startled reporters by pointing out that his "principal adversary" in the big race was not Humphrey but Texas' Lyndon Johnson, already credited with control of some 350 Southern delegates. Kennedy twitted Johnson as well as Missouri's Stuart Symington for refusing to meet him in the primaries. They remain safely on the side lines, he charged, "hoping to gain the nomination through manipulation of the convention...
...convenient working agreement was born. Humphrey cultivated the friendship of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, is proud of the fact that one eminent Southerner (Georgia's late Walter George) endorsed him when he ran for re-election in 1954, has been a willing bridge between the Senate's conservatives and liberals. For this role, he has been rewarded with choice committee assignments (currently the Foreign Relations and Agriculture committees), and has won top standing as a Senate leader...
...sound claim for whatever it may be worth; Democratic Contenders Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson and Stuart Symington are all millionaires...
Gates' statement contrasted with the contention of Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas Friday that the Soviet Union will have "an enormous advantage in missile striking power in the near future...