Lyndon Johnson’s relationship with his traveling press corps was altogether different: they protected him. The President’s tongue was if anything more undisciplined than his opponent’s. At one point he would say that the American people wanted nuclear control “vested in a civilian. They do not expect to abandon this duty to military men in the field, and I don’t think that they have ever considered that since the Founding Fathers drafted our Constitution” —though surely the control of nuclear weapons never made the Founding Fathers’ agenda. “If it hadn’t been for Goldwater,” Johnson aide Kenny
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