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24 Jul 2023, 1:01 am
She was appointed the Lyndon Johnson Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin, where she taught until the early 1990s. [read post]
11 Jul 2023, 6:19 pm
Federal corruption charges have long been a thorn in Illinois and Chicago politics, dating back to the days of President Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 5:55 am
The year 2023, marks a major milestone for the United States: the 50th anniversary of the establishment of an all-volunteer force (AVF). 2023 also marks the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9981, President Harry Truman’s decision to end the Jim Crow era in the armed forces, as well as the 75th anniversary of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, the law that allowed women to serve in the regular armed forces and not merely in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services… [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 5:50 am
Many, of course, including The Nation, The Intercept, and Mehdi Hasan used the occasion to recall the dark side of Kissinger’s legacy – his role in the destruction of Chilean democracy and the consolidation of the Pinochet dictatorship, the atrocities of the Argentine military junta (Kissinger told the country’s foreign minister, “If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly”), the prolongation of the Vietnam War through the sabotage of… [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 11:48 am
In 1966, President Lyndon B. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 7:49 am
Caro and Gottlieb sit side by side in an antiseptic office, intently reviewing a manuscript page from Caro’s study of Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 7:12 am
It was Lyndon Johnson at his worst: manipulative, cynical. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 1:17 pm
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 9:30 pm
[The second of the two essays I research and write for my exam in American Legal History is biographical Here's this year's. [read post]
27 May 2023, 1:01 am
After Lyndon B. [read post]
19 May 2023, 12:30 pm
Convicted serial killer Lyndon Pace—who was sentenced to death after being convicted in 1996 of raping and murdering four women in the Atlanta area in the late 1980s—appeals from a habeas denial, raising multiple arguments that his rights were violated during the sentencing phase of his trial. [read post]
14 May 2023, 1:01 am
Fortas represented Lyndon Johnson in a primary electoral dispute, forming close ties with LBJ. [read post]
8 May 2023, 7:14 am
In 1968, President Lyndon B. [read post]
6 May 2023, 6:15 am
"—Mary Lyndon Shanley, Professor Emerita of Political Science, Vassar College "Essentially a Mother reclaims–and redefines–motherhood for the modern era. [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 2:37 pm
With Chief Justice Warren, it was Associate Justice Abe Fortas, a liberal Democrat appointed to the Court in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson. [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 11:21 am
King’s assassination and a direct appeal from President Lyndon B. [read post]
12 Apr 2023, 4:31 pm
Toward the end of Lyndon B. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 10:19 am
He was counsel to Lyndon Johnson during Johnson's years in the senate and as VP, and was by LBJ's side when he became president, offering advice on such things as whether in his first address to congress days after Kennedy was killed, Johnson should raise the issue of the stalled civil rights bills. [read post]
23 Mar 2023, 4:54 am
” Democratic President Lyndon Johnson’s lies about the Vietnam War clashed with accurate reporting, and a “credibility gap” arose – the growing public skepticism about the administration’s truthfulness – to the obvious irritation of the president. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 10:28 am
When President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty—which prioritized direct partnerships with poor and racially marginalized citizens—businesspeople, Republicans, and soon, a rising generation of New Democrats sought to rein in its seeming excesses by reinventing and redeploying many of the policy tools and commitments pioneered on liberalism’s supply side: public-private partnerships, market-oriented solutions, fiscal “realism,” and, above all,… [read post]
