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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...
...losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint." By Stone's standards of historiography, that might be enough to prove that, say, Johnson was a restrained leader saddled with onerous commitments from a hardline predecessor. At the very least, how on earth did the conspirators know they were bringing in someone who would be more of a Cold Warrior or, indeed, be in any way different from Kennedy...
...hold the world at bay; he did not need any additional and extraneous problems from the world, and particularly not from Vietnam." Stone makes much of footage of a Johnson meeting with advisors just after the assassination, as if the new President couldn't even wait for his predecessor to be decently buried to start bombing hamlets. What Stone doesn't mention is that the people eager for fighting were the advisors, top Kennedy men like Bundy, Walt Rostow and McNamara...
...different company, GM is already vastly different from what it was in the free-spending days of Stempel's predecessor, Roger Smith. Money seemed to be no object for Smith, who spent $5 billion to acquire Hughes Aircraft, $3 billion to build the experimental Saturn division and $700 million to buy out his boardroom rival H. Ross Perot...
...should take the lead in this campaign, but it probably won't as long as Bush has anything to say about it. He cravenly repudiated his earlier championship of serious family planning when he went to work for Ronald Reagan. As President, Bush has kept in place his predecessor's withdrawal of U.S. payments to the U.N. Fund for Population Activities and International Planned Parenthood on the specious grounds that they support abortion...