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29 Apr 2024, 2:44 pm by Reference Staff
Fair Housing Month — 56 Years of the Fair Housing ActOn April 11, 1968 President Lyndon Johnson signed a landmark piece of legislation. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 2:39 am by Associated Press
Box truck drivers relying on GPS continually crash through Lyndon's 140-year-old Miller’s Run bridge despite signs, including a flashing one, to deter vehicles that are too tall or too heavy from crossing. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 7:23 am
Kennedy and Lyndon B. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 9:22 am by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON — Some voters probably still hope Joe Biden or Donald Trump - or both - will do what Lyndon Baines Johnson did nearly 56 years ago: Pull out of the presidential race under public pressure.After all, Biden has heard widespread concerns about his age, and Trump faces four separate criminal trials. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 4:54 pm
Asks Peter Baker (at the NYT).Back in 1968, President Lyndon B. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 6:29 am by Jennifer González
Congress designated the first week of May in 1965 as Professional Photography Week, which President Lyndon B. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Robert Post,  The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).Laura KalmanI’ve never thought him a great President, but I’ve always had a soft spot for William Howard Taft. [read post]
10 Feb 2024, 3:52 am
Or after a devastating justice department report said his memory is shot due to old age, was he about to do a Lyndon B Johnson and announce he is not seeking re-election? [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 9:30 pm by ernst
  He was Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division during Lyndon Johnson's administration, a long-time partner at the Washington law firm of Shea & Gardner, and an imaginative, dedicated, and extremely thoughtful President of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit, the kind of lawyer a legal historian dreams of working with but rarely finds. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 5:57 pm by Bruce Ackerman
  To be sure, Southern Democrats deployed other means of suppression to exclude blacks from white primaries until the Civil Rights Revolution enabled Lyndon Johnson to gain decisive Congressional support for the Voting Rights Act. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 6:51 am by Dean Falvy
Senators Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Dan Quayle, Walter Mondale, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Alben Barkley, Harry Truman, and four of their predecessors were also apparently mistaken to resign their seats before assuming the vice presidency. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 1:25 pm by Mark Burridge
District Court for the Southern District of New York by Lyndon B. [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 11:18 pm by Steven Calabresi
Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) stunned the nation by getting 42% of the vote against incumbent President Lyndon B. [read post]
14 Jan 2024, 3:09 am
(Basically, a version of what Lyndon Johnson and the Daley machine were accused of doing in the 1960 election to tip Texas and Illinois to the Democrats, or what some conspiracy-minded liberals claimed happened with Ohio voting machines in 2004.) [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 1:31 pm
Here's his sisters' room: And here's Lyndon's room:And here's a look at his grave: [read post]
28 Nov 2023, 1:54 pm by Ilya Somin
Many liberals admire Lyndon Johnson's Great Society; many liberals do not. [read post]