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5 Sep 2009, 3:42 pm
  The most famous (or infamous) attempt at court-curbing was President Roosevelt’s failed attempt to pack the Court in 1937. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 3:13 pm
Today, our society inflates the role of Lincoln in bringing about abolition, the centrality of Roosevelt to the New Deal and end of the Great Depression, the role of Kennedy in the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the role of Johnson in the passage of the anti-poverty and Great Society programs.Although presidential leadership and vision were critical to the accomplishment of these policies, these dramatic changes would not have occurred without the engagement and… [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 8:18 am
Johnson Federal Building, $4,162,000 Elijah Barrett Prettyman Courthouse, $3,662,000 IRS Building, $1,506,000 Ariel Rios Fed Building, $1,337,000 GSA-Regional Office Building, $592,000 Wilbur J Cohen Building, $16,701,000 Winder Building, $1,865,000 Theodore Roosevelt Building, $23,551,000 Robert C. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 4:52 am
The plan worked - but it cost him black support.Despite the Roosevelt revolution, around 30 percent of black voters continued to support Republican candidates until 1964, the year Johnson sponsored important civil rights legislation. [read post]
15 Feb 2009, 1:35 pm
Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman.The bottom five included (from bad to worst): Warren G. [read post]
31 Jan 2009, 9:00 pm
 Recently, I learned that all this secret taping started with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and continued uninterrupted straight through Nixon. [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 3:30 pm
(Indeed, it's worth noting that from 1932 through 1968 the country was particularly well served by a series of great to good presidents: Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 5:01 pm
There's little to suggest that he's got the blood instinct of a Lyndon Johnson, to say nothing of the lion-and-fox wiliness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 10:36 pm
Technically, Roosevelt Hotel held only that plaintiffs can't be forced to consent to such interviews, but the opinion's language is definitely not helpful. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 5:00 am
Reality Check for the Left: Obama Is a ModerateWith every new Cabinet appointment, guarded and nuanced statement about the prospect of reform, and "shocking" embrace of policies that progressives vehemently oppose, the Left continues to discover what it refused to see earlier: Obama is a moderate politician (which I do not view as an inherently negative quality). [read post]
21 Nov 2008, 4:13 pm
Earhart recalls meeting with representatives of a Johnson & Johnson company that I-Flow had signed up as a partner in selling and distributing ON-Q pumps. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 11:39 am
Roosevelt gained support of nearly 80% of blacks, who abandoned the Republican party due to Roosevelt's liberal economic policies, which drew mass appeal following Republican Herbert Hoover's presidency and the Great Depression. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 7:43 pm
” He believes strongly in the free market — he wouldn’t be sitting on Chancery if he didn’t — but he’s also an unabashed New Deal Democrat who has photographs of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson hanging in his office. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 4:23 pm
Johnson privatized Fannie Mae in order to remove it from the national budget. [read post]
7 Sep 2008, 10:02 pm
That was essentially what Lyndon Johnson decided in 1968, even though he could have run again. [read post]
28 Aug 2008, 12:58 am
His name was William Jennings Bryan and he moved the Democratic Party from a more conservative post-Civil War bent into a populist direction that eventually led to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. [read post]