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11 Jun 2022, 5:00 pm
           In 1968, after the riots of 1967 burned through our cities, President Lyndon Baines Johnson appointed a commission to study what happened and why – the Kerner Commission. [read post]
14 May 2022, 7:23 pm by Steve Gottlieb
Caro’s biography of Lyndon Johnson made clear that LBJ also used a lot of blackmail. [read post]
11 May 2022, 8:06 am by Nathan Dorn
(A series of Executive Orders, notably Executive Order no. 11354, issued by President Lyndon Johnson on May 23, 1967, limited the category of proclamations requiring the seal to those related to treaties.) [read post]
3 May 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
One can only wonder how American history might have been different had the talented politician Lyndon Johnson not succumbed to his personal desires to name his friend Abe Fortas as Chief Justice and then Texas former Representative Homer. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 2:19 pm by JD Hull
We live in a world that never sleeps. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 4:57 pm by Mark Walsh
President Lyndon Johnson announced the first Black nominee to the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, with an evidently quickly organized event in the Rose Garden in 1967. [read post]
23 Feb 2022, 7:34 am
But maybe — if he'd planned ahead — he'd have named the 5 that The Heritage Foundation names: Lyndon Johnson,  Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, James Buchanan, and Warren G. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 7:59 am by Farrah Nagrampa
Thirty-eight years later, his daughter Barbara became the first African American and the first woman to serve as Assistant Secretary of State, for then President Lyndon B. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 7:58 pm by Ediberto Roman
Hey fellow loungers, It's been a while, but happy to be back posting hopefully interesting and provocative essays on interesting issues. [read post]
17 Jan 2022, 3:47 am by SHG
President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law on August 6, 1965. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 10:04 am
Strangelove," "Lolita," "The Shining," "Clockwork Orange," "Barry Lyndon," "Paths of Glory," "2001," "Full Metal Jacket," and "Eyes Wide Shut. [read post]
31 Dec 2021, 4:12 pm by James Romoser
Ramsey Clark (Dec. 18, 1927 – April 9, 2021) In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Ramsey Clark, a lawyer who had served in various senior positions in the Department of Justice, to be his attorney general. [read post]
19 Dec 2021, 4:06 pm by JD Hull
We live in a world that never sleeps. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 9:05 am by David Priess
Reporters working the national security beat during Donald Trump’s single term in the White House wrote more frequently than during most administrations about the current president’s interactions with his Intelligence Community (IC). [read post]
30 Nov 2021, 7:41 am
"I was one of the editors of the Michigan Daily, the student newspaper at the University of Michigan, and we had a passionate argument that went late into the evening over which should be our lead story. [read post]