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...As president Lyndon Johnson said in declining to remove FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: “It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”...
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this comment: Anecdotal evidence points to Trump feelgood factor / From Michael J Bond, Mercer Island, WA, US...
...Stanley Kubrick UK Stanley Kubrick enlisted his Barry Lyndon production designer Roy Walker to work on the sets for The Shining....
...(Gillian Tett) Join Gillian Tett on May 7 at the FT’s inaugural US edition of the FTWeekend Festival, featuring leading luminaries including Henry Kissinger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, William J Burns, Tina...
...The term New Right came out of the campaign of Republican senator Barry Goldwater when he ran against Lyndon B Johnson in the 1964 presidential campaign....
...Letter in response to this article: Why US political funding escapes the media’s glare / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...On a lighter note, I ask why, in recent press interviews, his favourite film changed from Raging Bull to Barry Lyndon....
...Others should include Virgin, Waitrose, J Sainsbury, Tesco, Top Shop, Marks and Spencer, John Lewis, Starbucks, McDonald’s etc....
...In April 2014, Mr Obama travelled to Kuala Lumpur, becoming the first US president to visit since Lyndon Johnson in 1966....
...“These are the stakes,” intones the then US president, Lyndon Johnson. “We must either love each other or we must die.”...
...National Review, the magazine founded by William J Buckley, one of the founders of modern American conservatism, this week devoted its issue to opposing Mr Trump, calling him a “menace to American conservatism...
...The 1965 education reform act enabled Lyndon Johnson to use a “strings attached” strategy — threatening to withhold new funds — to impose school desegregation in the South....
...US president Lyndon Johnson famously remarked of FBI director J Edgar Hoover that it was “probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in”....
...Lyndon Baines Johnson, who felt perpetually unloved as America’s 36th president, would probably not derive much reassurance from the crowds flocking to see Robert Schenkkan’s new Broadway play, All The Way...
...Doing one thing at a time is for losers — recall Lyndon Johnson’s often bowdlerised dismissal of Gerald Ford: “He can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.”...
...Two people familiar with the situation said Lion Capital, a UK private equity group led by Lyndon Lea, had asked for repayment of its loan by July 4....
...He neglects to mention that Franklin D Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Tony Blair also had ideas....
...To Michael J Glennon, in National Security and Double Government, the shifting personalities are mere detail....
...His outspoken stance against the Vietnam war had alienated President Lyndon Johnson. J Edgar Hoover’s FBI continued to persecute him with wiretaps and discredit him with gossip....
...of ‘War and Gold’ (Bloomsbury) I have enjoyed many books this year but one that stood out, partly because of its unusual nature, was Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Little, Brown) by Richard J...
...Lion Capital, led by former Goldman Sachs banker Lyndon Lea, specialises in consumer group buyouts, including the Iglo frozen foods brand and Weetabix, which it is currently looking to offload to a state-backed...
...Pritchett and A.J.P. Taylor. I preferred Anthony Powell and E.P. Thompson....
...CHILDREN’S BOOKS J Smith, by Fougasse, Walker Books, RRP£10, 152 pages A reproduction of a miniature book made in 1922 by the cartoonist Fougasse for inclusion in the library of Queen Mary’s Lutyens-designed...
...In 1968, Lyndon Johnson, trying to fix a budget bloated by the Vietnam war and various domestic follies, “privatised” the GSEs....
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