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3 Jan 2019, 5:00 am
The final two months of 2018 have been a remarkably eventful period for observers of American civil-military relations—even for the Trump administration. [read post]
30 Dec 2018, 6:28 am
Decision-Making Process on Viet Nam Policy’ but popularly known as the Pentagon Papers [This seven thousand page document had been commissioned by President Lyndon Johnson’s secretary of defense, Robert McNamara. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 5:00 am
The dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele remains a subject of fascination—or, depending on your perspective, scorn. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 12:57 pm
” The first of these, getting rejected by one’s own party, was the fate of such 19th-century forgettables as John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and Chester Arthur, and in our modern era, of course, Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 8:49 am
In Dallas, the most dangerous intersections included: Lyndon B. [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]
15 Nov 2018, 11:29 am
Beschloss goes on to tell the stories of the seven individuals who have presided over America’s largest wars: James Madison and the War of 1812, James Polk and the Mexican-American War, William McKinley and the Spanish-American War, Woodrow Wilson and World War I, Franklin Roosevelt and World War II, Harry Truman and the Korean War and Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
As a related matter, will Medicare and Medicaid—the crown jewels of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program, which was the logical extension of the New Deal—also be in the conservatives’ crosshairs? [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]
3 Nov 2018, 6:22 pm
These resources include video footage of Lyndon Johnson signing the act into law (part of NBC’s archival footage collection), a succinct summary of the key points of the Voting Rights Act, and powerful graphs that show the number of black legislators in the south (1868-1900 and 1960-1992) and the percentage of registered voters in black voting-age population. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 7:29 am
On October 17, 1968 President Lyndon B. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 5:28 pm
Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson — who led the nation through some of its most difficult times. [read post]
3 Oct 2018, 4:10 am
Andrew Glass on Politico reminds us that, on this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 12:39 pm
Clark and served as an assistant to Lyndon Baines Johnson in his roles as U.S. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 8:21 am
Clark and served as an assistant to Lyndon Baines Johnson in Johnson’s roles as U.S. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 9:04 pm
Echoing the Lyndon B. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 9:57 am
” In response, President Lyndon B. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 5:45 am
Cohen, a tax lawyer and certified public accountant who helped set up the first presidential blind trust, for Lyndon B. [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 2:33 pm
“One of the things that makes him one of the greatest biographers of all time is he’ll write about Lyndon Johnson, but when he encounters another character who’s interesting — Coke Stevenson — he will drop everything and go down deep, incredibly deep, into, ‘Who is this man really? [read post]
18 Aug 2018, 6:30 am
They revealed “a vulgarity of language, an indecision of tone and a profanity of such commonness as to make the imaginative level of Lyndon Johnson’s obscenities seem artful by comparison. [read post]
