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23 Oct 2016, 9:30 pm
Indeed, supporters of John Jay in 1792 and opponents of Lyndon Johnson in the 1948 Texas Senate race would find it easy to commiserate with Al Gore after the 2000 election. [read post]
9 Oct 2016, 10:00 pm
Lyndon Johnson and the Congress were sorely misguided in making Columbus day a federal holiday in 1968, which happened in the process of legislating three then-existing federal holidays to Mondays. [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 12:03 am
Also in The New York Review of Books is a review of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy.On H-Net is a review of Julian Zelizer's The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 1:20 pm
A few weeks ago, I read the first of the four volumes of Robert Caro’s sensational biography of LBJ, entitled “The Path to Power,” covering Lyndon Johnson’s boyhood and early political career (up to around 1940) in Texas. [read post]
25 Sep 2016, 1:01 am
Kennedy Speech on his religion on September 12, 1960 Lyndon Johnson “We Shall Overcome” speech on March 15, 1965 [read post]
24 Sep 2016, 6:41 am
Gottlieb and Robert Caro, the author of “The Power Broker,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, and an ongoing, multivolume biography of Lyndon B. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 2:00 pm
Lyndon succumbed to his injuries at the scene. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 6:17 am
The observation of this month—in which we bring forth the histories and cultures of people whose provenance is linked to that of Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America—dates back to 1968, during Lyndon B. [read post]
11 Sep 2016, 12:36 pm
He continues to serve as a teacher and mentor to students, faculty members, and current government officials while occupying the Lyndon B. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm
However, since the realignment that began with President Lyndon Johnson’s support for civil rights legislation and candidate Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy,” the parties have been growing more ideologically coherent and distant from one another. [read post]
27 Aug 2016, 10:53 am
The AWA was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966. [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 1:00 am
In 1967 President Lyndon B. [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 7:12 am
This six-month educational program is jointly sponsored by the U.S. presidential centers of Lyndon B. [read post]
31 Jul 2016, 8:58 am
Since the 1950s, a provision of federal tax law championed by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson has provided that 501(c)(3) organizations, including churches, charities, and other sorts of non-profits, endanger their tax-exempt status if too much of their activity is devoted to supporting or opposing candidates for office. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 4:20 am
You have so much to contribute to our politics, yet our laws prevent you from speaking your minds from your own pulpits.An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson, many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views.I am going to work very hard to repeal that language and protect free speech for all Americans.The relevant language is found in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which, in describing… [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 3:53 am
I’ve been posting a number of recaps about this exciting (& draining) proxy season in our “Proxy Season Developments” Practice Area – but I had to highlight this one that is quite in-depth… This month marks the 50th anniversary of when President Lyndon Johnson signed the “Freedom of Information Act” into law. [read post]
3 Jul 2016, 4:20 pm
Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2802981 “In the spring of 2015, Paramount Motion Pictures released Selma, a movie based on the historical occurrences that led to the infamous day in American history known as “Bloody Sunday,” and President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the subsequently passed Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“the Act”). [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 6:01 am
Kennedy and Lyndon B. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 8:17 pm
As an aside, the Supreme Court’s sole African American justice at the time, Thurgood Marshall, took no part in the Ali argument and decision, perhaps to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest, since Marshall was President Lyndon Johnson’s solicitor general at the time Ali refused to be drafted. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 6:06 pm
President Lyndon B. [read post]
