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...Yet the year 1968 — when an unpopular foreign war ignited American campuses, creating a sense of disorder that upended the Democratic National Convention and doomed Lyndon B Johnson, the then president —...
...During the decade, Dick Goodwin became close to two presidents — John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson — and played an important role in the 1968 White House campaigns of both insurgent senator “clean” Eugene...
...I still think Barry Lyndon is my favourite of his films, for reasons wonderfully described in Matt Packer’s 2016 reappraisal of it in the Quietus....
...Richard Nixon’s victory three months later was blamed on the rotten travesty that produced Hubert Humphrey as the Democratic nominee....
...Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton....
...The narrative identification strategy uses historical information on President Richard Nixon’s pressure on Fed Chairman Arthur Burns in the run-up to the 1972 presidential election....
...Over the past half century, Goodwin, who is 81, has written award-winning studies of Lyndon Johnson, the president responsible for pushing through the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who...
...The most salient example of a sitting president declining to run for a second term was Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1968....
...Humphrey was nominated during a riot-stricken convention in Chicago, and then lost to Richard Nixon in the general election....
...He mentions Richard Plepler, who produced the series, and who used to run HBO. “I’m sure it helped having him there, with his history.”...
...We had major assassinations, cities on fire, two failed presidencies [Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon].”...
...The decision he and Richard Nixon took to back Pakistan’s brutal suppression of the uprising in what became Bangladesh is high up on any charge sheet against him....
...Before that was Richard Nixon’s heavy defeat of George McGovern in 1972 and Lyndon Johnson’s crushing of Barry Goldwater in 1964. Such sweeps no longer occur....
...Meza Ortega arrives with the iPad-borne wine list, which is dizzyingly long....
...paved the way for Republican Richard Nixon to win the White House....
...the Republican right and a key person in its ultimate success from Richard Nixon onwards....
...The US lost in Vietnam because Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon after him, limited escalation of the war, choosing to fight a war of attrition....
...In the US, swing voters were still numerous enough in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to hand lopsided electoral victories to Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and sufficiently non-tribal to discard...
...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....
...Say “Richard Nixon” and most Americans think “Watergate” and “scandal”. The older and better read might also remember him as the man who opened up US diplomatic relations with China....
...Republican Richard Nixon did as much as his Democrat predecessor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, to stoke inflation in 1972 when he bullied the Fed chair, Arthur Burns, to cut rates in the build-up to his re-election...
...The roots of the great inflation stretched back to Lyndon Johnson’s guns-and-butter programme of the mid-1960s....
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...But neither he, Richard Nixon nor Lyndon Johnson match Biden’s combined 44 years as a senator and vice-president....
...Mr Schama argues that, later, Richard Goodwin was the architect of the Voting Rights Act. Goodwin’s words, yes; inspiration and commitment, no....
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