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9 Feb 2017, 5:57 am
Caro, "Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III" (pages 92-93):Courtesy and courtliness were characteristics of the southern aristocracy— and of the Senate, where these traits were not only esteemed but were reinforced by the body’s rules. [read post]
27 Feb 2022, 3:53 am
Vietnam stopped Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. [read post]
15 May 2013, 8:01 am
Before being appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson, Marshall was a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Federal Judge (1961-1965), and Solicitor General of the United States (1965-1966). [read post]
3 May 2016, 9:36 am
It was often overtly political and funny — 'clever as the very devil and catty as can be,' John Canaday wrote in The New York Times of her 1967 exhibition featuring sculpture caricatures of the British royal family, President Lyndon B. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 6:30 am
., followed by a roundtable discussion on the Immigration Act of 1965 at 7 p.m.Signed into law by President Lyndon B. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 8:05 am
In June, the State Bar of Texas 2014 Annual Meeting will also commemorate the anniversary of the Civil Rights Act with speeches from Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, daughter of former President Lyndon B. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 4:49 am
In signing the new law, President Lyndon B. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 6:51 pm
While rummaging around in the papers of the Hoover-era Reconstruction Finance Corporation at the National Archives, in an attempt to nail down some facts about its Legal Division, I happened upon this letter from a young congressional secretary (and failed Georgetown law student) to Jesse Jones, a Houston banker and the RFC's leading Democratic director, who was about to take charge of the [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 11:24 am
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — considered by many to be the most effective piece of civil rights law ever passed in the United States. [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 11:24 am
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — considered by many to be the most effective piece of civil rights law ever passed in the United States. [read post]
17 Jan 2022, 3:47 am
President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law on August 6, 1965. [read post]
23 Aug 2017, 4:28 am
Lyndon wouldn’t. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 10:40 am
Gates wonders how more combative politicians, like Lyndon Johnson, would have responded to the slights Obama has received from Congress. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 11:27 am
President Lyndon Johnson had announced he was not seeking reelection; Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon menaced in the wings. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 9:52 am
President Lyndon Johnson signed the historic law on July 4, 1966, at his ranch in Texas. [read post]
24 May 2011, 7:16 am
The rule grew out of a case involving Barry Goldwater: Just before the 1964 election, a muckraking magazine called Fact decided to survey members of the American Psychiatric Association for their professional assessment of Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the Republican nominee against President Lyndon B. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 9:47 am
President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act began to address America’s long history of denying black Americans the right to vote. [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 7:00 am
It is nicknamed “Lady Bird” because many people think that President Lyndon B. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 3:00 am
Houston news outlet FOX 26 recently highlighted a new report from the Lyndon B. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 7:00 am
People call it a “Lady Bird Deed” because, according to legend, President Lyndon B. [read post]
