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...to do his bidding. If not a dictator, neither has he proven to be a savvy, hands-on politician in the style of Lyndon Johnson, Reagan or Clinton. The days when LBJ slapped backs, twisted arms and brokered deals with a few powerful committee...
...propped up by politicians who gave way only after years of struggle created a new awareness in the country and allowed Lyndon Johnson to make racial justice the law of the land.Change is constant, but our political system always lags until the force...
...respectful dialogue. The first chapter contains the words, "Come now let us reason together?" famously quoted by Lyndon Johnson. The writer does anything but. If we are going to compare our culture with that indicted by Isaiah, we should look...
...the future."Democrats continue to expound the 20th-century model created by Franklin Roosevelt and expanded by Lyndon Johnson in which the federal government fosters a growing dependence on government rather than encouraging self-reliance...
...damaging. There were Neil Bush's S&L problems, Roger Clinton's cocaine, and Hugh Rodham's role in pardons. Lyndon Johnson reportedly kept his hard-drinking brother under Secret Service surveillance. Richard Nixon's brother Donald took...
...honored both established and emerging authors, citing Caro for "Master of the Senate," the third volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography, and Julia Glass for her debut novel, "Three Junes." None of the other fiction nominees had written...
In a commencement speech at the University of Michigan in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson set the framework for a progressive, unprecedented set of programs designed to improve the quality-of-life in America's...
PINE RIVER -- The Pine River-Backus Tigers did something Wednesday night they hadn't done since Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. ground troops to South Vietnam. By beating the Pequot Lakes Patriots 31-6 the Tigers finished the season...
...more than 50 years ago, I believed that the smarter a president was, the better he would be. That was wrong. Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan were certainly not intellectuals, but they grasped the power of the presidency and they knew how...