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14 Nov 2019, 4:51 am
A suddenly urgent text is an easy way to beg off from being buttonholed and given the Lyndon Johnson treatment about "when I was a lawyer I tried this case and during cross examination...wah wah wah wah wah" (like the way adults speak in the Charlie Brown cartoons). [read post]
25 Mar 2021, 10:16 am
President Lyndon Johnson allegedly said that then-Congressman (and later president) Gerald Ford couldn’t 'fart and chew gum at the same time.' As early as the 1900s, it was observed that women talk a lot and chew gum a lot, but don’t 'talk and chew gum at the same time.' Entertainer and cowboy philosopher Will Rogers was described in 1926 as 'the only man in the world who can chew gum and talk sense at the same time.' It’s probable that the… [read post]
7 Jun 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
The discussion of presidential succession is placed in a chapter about Texas only because Lyndon Johnson was sworn in there after John F. [read post]
3 Dec 2020, 1:54 am by Sophie Corke
 Reviewing 'Patent Management – Protecting Intellectual Property and Innovation', Kat friend Gustavo Schötz (Intellectual Property Center, Universidad Austral, Argentina, and Schötz & Viascán) recommended it as a business-focused roadmap to making best use of intangible assets.Trade MarksKat friends Chia Ling Koh and Lyndon Choo described the jurisdiction-dependent role of a trade mark in the context of a passing off claim following a recent… [read post]
13 May 2014, 12:11 pm
I remember watching FDR campaign down Broadway through the rain, as if to demonstrate robust health; he died three months into his fourth term.A generation later, Lyndon Johnson, fighting for the Democratic nomination, had his friend John Connally put out word that John F. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 9:45 am by Shriver Center
By Kate WalzFifty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 5:16 pm by John P. Smolen
  This route is designated as part of “Corridor Q” by the Appalachian Regional Commission and part of the Appalachian Development Highway System, a program originally envisioned by President Lyndon B. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 4:28 am by Jon Hyman
And, in the meantime, to paraphrase President Lyndon Johnson, if you hire and retained the best qualified, this issue will, most often than not, take care of itself. [read post]
6 Oct 2015, 4:00 pm by EEM
 Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. [read post]
28 May 2015, 7:52 am by Adam Gillette
The only Democrats to win the Presidential vote in Nebraska in the 20th or 21st Century are Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt (although only for his first two terms), and Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 7:41 am by Brooke
  Also reviewed on the site is Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House by Joshua Zeitz. [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 1:42 pm
Romney) and the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions of the United States Army (sent by President Lyndon B. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  Full schedule and more information here.]This symposium will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act with an exploration of the Act’s origins, impact, and significance within several broad contexts, including the social movements and public policy transformations that the Act symbolized, promoted, and institutionalized.Civil Rights Revolution and Reform: What the White House Tapes RevealJohn Kennedy proposed the civil rights bill and Lyndon Johnson ushered the… [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 9:00 am by Emily Prifogle
[We have the following Call for Papers.]BEYOND THE NEW DEAL ORDER: A Conference at the University of California, Santa BarbaraSeptember 24-26, 2015When Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle edited The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order in 1989, they made the concept of a political and social “order” central to an interpretative framework that reperiodized U.S. history, from the election of Franklin Roosevelt, through Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and on to the Ronald… [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 4:45 am
Caro's "Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III" (pp. 7-8):“The use of the Senate,” [James] Madison said, “is to consist in its proceeding with more coolness, with more system, and with more wisdom, than the popular branch. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 12:45 pm by Sophia Lin Lakin
In his early adulthood, Lewis was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights organization that fought to ensure President Lyndon B. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
The bill's passage has often been credited to the political leadership of President Lyndon Johnson, or the moral force of Martin Luther King. [read post]