ranging from violent diatribes by John Wilkes, to vulgar jokes and obscene cartoons in the popular press, and the haughty ridicule by intellectuals such as Samuel Johnson that was much resented by Scots.

However, McCarthy resented the fact that Bobby had let him do the " dirty work " of challenging Johnson, and then only entered the race once it was apparent that the President was vulnerable.

The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the American-Negro Suite and said of it, `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music, these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest.

In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

The authors also suggest that communication can be viewed as a machine: “ Communication is not what one does with the machine, but is the machine itself .” ( Johnson, Lakoff, 1980 ).

Shakespeare was also noted for his frequent play with less serious puns, the " quibbles " of the sort that made Samuel Johnson complain, " A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller!

Conversely, in 1774, Samuel Johnson published The Patriot, a critique of what he viewed as false patriotism.

" This line was not, as widely believed, about patriotism in general, but the false use of the term " patriotism " by John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( the patriot-minister ) and his supporters ; Johnson opposed " self-professed Patriots " in general, but valued what he considered " true " patriotism.

As the car moved on, he then said to Johnson " half-jocularly ": " what I ought to have told him was to ride over them ", to which Johnson replied " a man after my own heart ".

Another explanation is that at a recording session in 1959 produced by Coxsone Dodd, double bassist Cluett Johnson instructed guitarist Ranglin to " play like ska, ska, ska ", although Ranglin has denied this, stating " Clue couldn't tell me what to play!

The Lin – Kernighan – Johnson methods compute a Lin – Kernighan tour, and then perturb the tour by what has been described as a mutation that removes at least four edges and reconnecting the tour in a different way, then v-opting the new tour.

He was disgusted as well at what he thought was insane talk of impeaching President Johnson.

Biographers Robert Caro and W. Marvin Watson offer a different perspective ; they write that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win what was forecast to be a very close race against Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr .. Johnson was needed on the ticket to help carry Texas and the Southern states.

O ' Donnell remembers being angry at what he considered a betrayal by John Kennedy who had previously cast Johnson as anti-labor and anti-liberal.

The most virulent of the criticisms came from Paul Johnson of the New Statesman who opened his review, " Sex, Snobbery and Sadism ", with: " I have just finished what is, without doubt, the nastiest book I have ever read ".

Reports vary on what happened to the B-26 Marauder carrying Johnson.

In sharp contrast to what would become during his Presidency, Johnson was strongly opposed as Senate Majority Leader to Eisenhower's 1957 Civil Rights Act, fearful that its passage would tear his party apart.

Biographers Robert Caro and W. Marvin Watson offer a different perspective ; they write that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win what was forecast to be a very close 1960 election against Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr .. Johnson was needed on the ticket to help carry Texas and the Southern states.

O ' Donnell remembers being angry at what he considered a betrayal by Kennedy who had previously cast Johnson as anti-labor and anti-liberal.

After Kennedy's death, Johnson took the initiative in finishing what Kennedy started and broke a filibuster by Southern Democrats in March 1964 ; as a result, this pushed the bill for passage in the Senate.

The press had sensed a " Credibility gap " between what Johnson was saying in press conferences and what was happening on the ground in Vietnam, which led to much less favorable coverage of Johnson.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

Johnson never would have believed she had a son that age.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

At this time Johnson built a larger home in Greeneville ( Eliza had given birth to another son and his mother had moved in with them following the death of his stepfather.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

As he had in the past, Johnson steadfastly objected to unnecessary spending by the government, including the military and internal improvements ; he demonstrated he still had no desire to please the conservatives in his party or the opposition.

Though his party won the governor's race and control of the legislature, Johnson still had to overcome considerable opposition from the conservatives in both parties.

In his first speech in Nashville, Johnson declared he had come back home with an olive branch in one hand and the Constitution in the other.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

But Johnson, with the support of other officials including Seward, insisted that the states, not the federal government, had the right to address the issue of suffrage.

Johnson grew increasingly intransigent on this position, believing that the southern states had legally never left the Union.

Johnson recommended that black voting begin with black troops, those who could read and write, and those who had property of at least $ 200 or $ 250.

Johnson did not deal harshly with Confederate leaders, as he had earlier indicated he would ; he expanded his pardons to include those in the highest ranks of the Confederacy, including their Vice-President, Alexander H. Stephens.

" Johnson said it was an invasion by federal authority of the rights of the states, it had no warrant in the Constitution and was contrary to all precedents.

The two projects which Johnson had most at heart were the speedy admission of the Southern senators and representatives to Congress and the relegation of the question of negro suffrage to the States themselves.

When it reconvened in January 1868, the Senate disapproved of his action, and reinstated Stanton, contending Johnson had violated the Tenure of Office Act.

Since Lincoln rather than Johnson had appointed Stanton, the defense maintained the president had not violated the Act.

Earlier amnesties, requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people, had been issued by Lincoln and by Johnson.