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...first Gorbachev and the reactionaries tried to co-opt each other. One of Gorbachev's aides, fluent in the earthy idiom of American politics, paraphrases a favorite line of Lyndon Johnson's: "Mikhail Sergeyevich felt it was better to have the camels inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. He wanted to keep them where he could see them and where they would have to take his orders. He also wanted to use them to put pressure on the Balts." That arrangement was fine with the reactionaries, since they had considerable latitude in how to interpret...
...theme lies there. The boomers are a culture of siblings. Their fathers are all dead. The '60s taught that the authority of fathers (Lyndon Johnson, the Pentagon, the university, every institution) was defunct. The boomers functioned as siblings without fathers. Is it the case that now, like Bly, they are looking for the vanished father in themselves...
Wanniski, whose business clients include Michael Milken (who, although in prison, is in regular phone contact with Wanniski), refuses to divulge the identities of the mysterious "media junkies" who help him compile his ratings, but among them there are at least two alumni of Lyndon LaRouche's fanatical groups, as well as public relations flacks, a social worker, a playwright, typists, salesmen, a medical secretary and people who called in to a Denver talk-radio program and asked to be reviewers. A man who has accepted money from felon Milken, has gone on Asian junkets paid for by felon Moon...
...doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave -- arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic...
...rattle Marshall by questioning him on more than 60 obscure legal and historical matters. Marshall did not have the answers for Thurmond, but he spoke persuasively enough on the main issues to be confirmed by 69 votes to 11. After Marshall had served four years on the bench, Lyndon Johnson made him Solicitor General in 1965, a prelude to naming him to the court two years later...