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27 Nov 2011, 6:31 pm
McMaster wrote in his 1997 book Dereliction of Duty, President Lyndon Johnson’s leadership of the war effort was characterized by marginalizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lying to Congress about troop levels, and pursuing Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s tactic of ‘graduated pressure,’ which treated military force as a communication tool rather than a way to achieve victory.” To be fair, they were probably just thinking about tomorrow’s lunch. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 7:59 am
Thirty-eight years later, his daughter Barbara became the first African American and the first woman to serve as Assistant Secretary of State, for then President Lyndon B. [read post]
19 Jun 2012, 6:15 am
Somehow the work reminds me of the biographies I've been reading lately: Robert Caro's fourth volume on Lyndon Johnson, and Walter Isaacson's on Steve Jobs. [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 8:25 am
The bureaucracies began their massive growth after World War II and especially after Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society initiatives of the mid-1960s (continued, with equal vigor, by Richard Nixon). [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 5:09 am
It is also an interesting moment to think about Andrew Cuomo, who Nate Silver is comparing to Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 10:00 pm
The last Democrat to win there was Lyndon B. [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 6:12 pm
Beginning with President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty" through President George W. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 8:07 am
.; James Melvin Washington Judgment days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America by Nick Kotz The making of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement by Brian Ward; Anthony J Badger; … [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 8:55 am
Acknowledging the realities of our history should lead all of us to be profoundly skeptical of laws that burden, or impede, the exercise of what Lyndon B. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 5:55 am
It will draw on the instinctive bigotry that made it so easy to demonize Lyndon Baines Johnson and the younger Bush. [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 1:30 pm
You can see a photo of him with President Lyndon B. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 3:30 am
Starting with President Lyndon Johnson, who had handily pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even before his landslide election for his full term, Professor Zasloff shows how it took almost every political arrow in Johnson’s quiver to quash opposition to the FHA. [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]
11 Jun 2022, 1:01 am
President Lyndon B. [read post]
27 Jun 2006, 6:06 am
"Then I turned to Lyndon Johnson because he understood national political power —understood it better, I think, than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. [read post]
7 Jan 2008, 6:02 pm
But her reference is to different presidents -- Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, one of whom inspired but did relatively little legislatively and Johnson who did a lot legislatively, though he was rather less than inspiring. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 1:45 pm
Thankfully, President Lyndon B. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 6:48 pm
Shesol previously wrote "Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade" which was also published by Norton [see HERE]. [read post]
4 May 2011, 7:18 am
Sources, top to bottom: "Situation Room: Walt Rostow shows President Lyndon B. [read post]
18 Feb 2007, 7:30 pm
â € Some Democrats and political analysts say Bill Clinton would thrive in the worldâ € ™s greatest deliberative body, much like Lyndon Johnson did before he became president. [read post]
