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29 Feb 2020, 8:33 am
National City Christian was Texan Lyndon Johnson’s church. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 3:35 pm
"His words reached back to the promise of Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson -- who both strove to fight poverty -- and, even further back, to the promises of the New Deal to the party's multi-decade struggle for a better life for all Americans. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 1:35 pm
Forty-seven years ago, President Lyndon B. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 7:04 am
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and it can work in 2008 — if good sense prevails in the Democratic Party. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 4:38 pm
The 1960s era of the Federal Register covers the Administrations of Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon, and includes such highlights as: The first executive order of the Kennedy administration expanded food aid to needy families: January 24, 1961 Proclamation by President Johnson of a national day of mourning for President Kennedy: November 27, 1963 Notice of an establishment of a quarantine period for extraterrestrial exposure for the astronauts on the Apollo 11… [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 10:01 pm
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, formally titled the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and known less formally as the Kerner Commission because its chair was Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, warned against the consequences of racism: "'Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal.'" The commission contended that without immediate remedial change there'd be a "'continuing polarization of the American… [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 8:03 pm
She will be remembered for her dedication to beautifying America with wildflowers, but Lyndon Johnson was her life’s work. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 6:53 am
Moyar described the Byzantine intrigue through which the Kennedy Administration inserted American ground troops into Vietnam, and why and how his successor Lyndon B. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 12:33 pm
President Lyndon Johnson and Dr. [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 4:15 am
The International Association of Chiefs of Police said Thursday that recent incidents involving officers' questionable use of force and abrupt increases in murder and robbery represent strong evidence for a panel, similar to President Lyndon Johnson's Crime Commission, which would develop a national anti-criminal justice strategy. [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 6:52 am
Without Martin Luther King and Lyndon B Johnson, there would never have been a Civil Rights Act of 1964. [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 12:00 pm
DeFrancesco Soto, of the University of Texas Lyndon B. [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]
26 Nov 2014, 11:19 am
The breakdown in values evidenced by this carnage can be traced back to President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty," which financed the demise of the nuclear black family, essentially paying black women to have out-of-wedlock children and creating a culture of dependence. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 2:58 am
From Thomas Jefferson to Franklin Roosevelt to John Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton, great political figures have behaved like adolescent boys in private, while at the same time brilliantly and effectively leading our nation in public . . .The back pages of a good number of glossy magazines and local newspapers openly advertise what everybody knows to be expensive call girl services. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 4:44 am
On the Democratic side, President Lyndon Johnson was escalating the conflict. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 8:00 pm
Blawg Review #324 at the law blog of Texas attorney Paul Kennedy, The Defense Rests, marks this day in 1964 when Lyndon Baines Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ending segregation in the United States, a signature piece of his administration's Great Society legislation. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 8:00 pm
Blawg Review #324 at the law blog of Texas attorney Paul Kennedy, The Defense Rests, marks this day in 1964 when Lyndon Baines Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ending segregation in the United States, a signature piece of his administration's Great Society legislation. [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]
7 Aug 2009, 2:59 am
On this day in ...... 1964 (45 years ago today), Congress voted in favor of a resolution that President Lyndon B. [read post]
