L. B. J.: Least Popular with the USSR

On performance, Johnson is just a whisker to the right of Kennedy et al.; he’s a New-Fair Dealer. But on foreign policy, he’s with the hards: He wouldn’t apologize to Khrushchev.

When Jack Kennedy buried Hubert Humphrey’s Presidential dreams in West Virginia, the White House hopes of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the U.S. Senate Democratic majority leader from Texas, were all but obliterated too.

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John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain (1903–1995) was an American writer.

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On performance, Johnson is just a whisker to the right of Kennedy et al.; he’s a New-Fair Dealer. But on foreign policy, he’s with the hards: He wouldn’t apologize to Khrushchev.

When Jack Kennedy buried Hubert Humphrey’s Presidential dreams in West Virginia, the White House hopes of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the U.S. Senate Democratic majority leader from Texas, were all but obliterated too.