Meaning of Landslide Lyndon | Babel Free

Definitions

Lyndon B. Johnson.

US, historical

Examples

“Hence, […] quiet fence-mending on the part of “Landslide Lyndon”, as he is now known to his friends since his 87-vote margin over Stevenson in the Democratic primary.”

“Perhaps you have noticed a slight decline in your popularity of these past several months. Perhaps you get the feeling that if you ran for office today the “Landslide” Lyndon of 1964 would be more like the “Landslide” Lyndon who just barely made it back to the U.S. Senate from Texas.”

“The [coiner of the nickname] cannot be definitively established, although it may have been [Lyndon] himself[, who] was among those [to] make it a familiar part of the scene of insider Washington. “From the start, [he met] he did not know by sticking out a hand and saying, ‘Howdy, I'm Landslide Lyndon,’” [writes] Alfred Steinberg[.]”

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