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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]
7 Feb 2017, 1:08 pm by Michael Gerhardt
They can hold hearings and decide to take no further action, as occurred when the Senate could not invoke cloture to stop a filibuster against President Lyndon Johnson’s nomination of then-Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 9:00 pm by Dean Falvy
Lyndon Johnson’s death from heart disease (64) is the only notable exception to the rising tide of post-presidential health. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 4:49 am by SHG
In signing the new law, President Lyndon B. [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 10:00 pm by Dan Flynn
Benson was Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of President Dwight Eisenhower while Freeman held the post for Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
14 Jan 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
[It should be noted that Eisenhower was critical of the way the US under Lyndon Johnson fought the Vietnam war. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 4:00 am by Betty Lupinacci
Those of us born before 1963 can personally recall Lyndon Baines Johnson taking the oath of office on Air Force One in Dallas, Texas following the assassination of John F. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 3:30 am by Shelby D. Green
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]
5 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by John Dean
“Bob” Haldeman from the 1968 presidential campaign, (when Haldeman was chief of staff of the campaign and in a role not unlike his later position in the Nixon White House), Farrell found confirmation of Nixon’s direct involvement in sabotaging the efforts by President Lyndon Johnson to end the war in Vietnam. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 11:13 am by William K. Berenson
These Are The Most Dangerous Intersections in Arlington, Fort Worth, and Dallas 2012 – 2015 statistics Arlington Street 1 Street 2 Crashes Injuries Deaths Score SIX FLAGS DR WATSON RD 98 68 0 302 E PARK ROW DR WATSON RD 69 69 0 276 E ABRAM ST WATSON RD 67 63 0 256 MAYFIELD RD WATSON RD 54 40 0 174   Fort Worth Street 1 Street 2 Crashes Injuries Deaths Score HENDERSON ST WEATHERFORD ST 119 105 0 434 BELKNAP ST HENDERSON ST 58 51 0 211 E LANCASTER AVE RIVERSIDE DR 52 45 1 197 7th… [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 7:51 am
He had to stand naked to take a shower, and there's something I want to tell you about that shower, and it connects to Barack Obama, but first I have to tell you about the time LBJ didn't have to stand naked but chose to:On a hot, sunny day in 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson had just delivered a stump speech during his campaign for the presidency. [read post]
28 Dec 2016, 6:48 am by Mark Graber
  The end result is that the Democratic Party of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is a poorer vehicle for pursuing economic justice than the Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 7:31 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
An excerpt: Lyndon Fredericks appeals, and Bole Resources, LLC, and others (“Bole defendants”) cross-appeal from a judgment declaring the district court had subject-matter jurisdiction over the action, reforming a quit claim mineral deed, quieting title in the mineral interests in Paul Fredericks, and ordering Lyndon Fredericks to pay the Bole defendants damages plus interest and their attorney fees. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 4:01 pm by LaJuana Davis
Last week's New York Times recognized the contribution of David Seeley, who served as Assistant Education Secretary during President Lyndon Johnson administration. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 4:02 am by Jon Katz
” ith 1960’s figures was in teaming up with Lyndon Johnson’s last attorney General Ramsey Clark (still alive) in 2000 in defending the late Philip Berrigan and three other Plowshares peace activists, and in meeting Dan Berrigan at Phil’s wake in 2002. [read post]