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17 Aug 2021, 12:11 pm
The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson to confront the fact that nearly a century after the Reconstruction Amendments, “millions of citizens were still denied the ability to register, to vote, and to participate fully in American democracy because of their race. [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 3:19 pm
., on September 19, the Farmers Branch Police Department responded to the scene of a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 635 (Lyndon B Johnson Freeway). [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 5:07 pm
Obama appears headed for the best showing of any Democratic candidate among white voters in a generation, going back at least to Jimmy Carter in 1976 and perhaps even to Lyndon Johnson in 1964," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. [read post]
20 Mar 2009, 8:00 am
Then again, I loved to hate Richard Nixon for surreptitiously taping conversations, but then learned that Lyndon Johnson showed Nixon how to use the already tape-rigged White House recording system. [read post]
10 Sep 2013, 2:18 pm
Lyndon Johnson sent troops to Vietnam without a declaration of war. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 9:30 pm
In his The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate historian Robert A. [read post]
5 May 2015, 10:23 pm
President Lyndon B. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 8:44 am
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, daughter of former President Lyndon B. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 3:58 pm
English: President Lyndon B. [read post]
12 Oct 2017, 4:15 am
The symposium features a group of distinguished FOIA and transparency scholars, governmental officials, and FOIA requesters and litigants engaging in a probing review of the issues as experienced on the ground.FOIA was signed into law on July 4, 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson and became operational exactly one year later. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 4:20 am
You have so much to contribute to our politics, yet our laws prevent you from speaking your minds from your own pulpits.An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson, many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views.I am going to work very hard to repeal that language and protect free speech for all Americans.The relevant language is found in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which, in describing… [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 1:16 pm
It's too boring.IN THE COMMENTS: Meade offers what I take to be a poem and will reformat:Because his name rhymes with “Golden Retrievers” I would liked to have voted for Tony EversBut for a number of other reasons I just couldn’t do it (including the fact that instead of his political role model being Tommy Thompson,Wisconsin’s former governor, it’s that son of a bitch Lyndon Johnson) [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 5:57 pm
McNamara left the Pentagon, Clark Clifford under the president [Lyndon B. [read post]
10 Feb 2024, 3:52 am
Or after a devastating justice department report said his memory is shot due to old age, was he about to do a Lyndon B Johnson and announce he is not seeking re-election? [read post]
25 Nov 2018, 9:27 am
“I can’t see myself sitting in a shelter, day after day, with sick people and screaming kids all around me,” said Lyndon McAfee, another of those toughing it out behind the lines.... [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 9:05 am
The Senate (due to Lyndon Johnson when he was Majority Leader) operates largely through unanimous consent requests. [read post]
24 Sep 2016, 6:41 am
Gottlieb and Robert Caro, the author of “The Power Broker,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, and an ongoing, multivolume biography of Lyndon B. [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 5:40 pm
., followed by a roundtable discussion on the Immigration Act of 1965 at 7 p.m.Signed into law by President Lyndon B. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 5:16 am
The famous Lyndon Johnson "treatment" where he would persuade people to do things they did not want to do were in-person (and sometimes vaguely intimidating) physical encounters.This is a one-time opportunity for back-benchers in both parties to take some power back from their leadership (albeit temporarily during this crisis). [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 8:03 pm
FOIA Post, June 30, 2022This Fourth of July marks the fifty-sixth anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). [read post]
