Showing posts with label Lyndon Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lyndon Johnson. Show all posts
Monday, July 22, 2024

Presidential Dropouts

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  Louis Jacobson at PolitFact : By now, most of us are used to living in "unprecedented times." But just how unprecedented is Joe ...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

LBJ on the Assassination of RFK

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Lyndon B. Johnson, Address to the Nation Following the Attack on Senator Kennedy, June 5, 1968 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley,...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

All the Presidents' Children

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Aaron O'Neill at Statista : The 45 men who have served as the President of the United States (officially there have been 46 as Grover C...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Nixon Announces that JFK Has Won

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On January 6, 1961, after the official counting of the electoral votes in a joint session of Congress, Vice President Richard Nixon announce...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

Unanticipated Consequences: the 1965 Immigration Law and Family Reunification

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At NYT, Jia Lynn Yang writes about a 1965 deal between LBJ and Rep. Michael Feighan (D-OH): For months, Johnson and his aides had been hou...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Progress and Poverty

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At AEI, Richard Burkhauser have a study titled" Evaluating the success of President Johnson’s War on Poverty: Revisiting the historical...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Forgetting Presidents

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A release from Washington University in St. Louis: American presidents spend their time in office trying to carve out a prominent place in...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

"We Are Not About to Send American Boys..." -- LBJ, Fifty Years Ago Today

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Fifty years ago today, on October 21, 1964, Lyndon Johnson went to Akron and spoke about the Vietnam War.  He said : “Sometimes our folks...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

The National Guard, Armed Forces, and Civil Disorder

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Events in Ferguson raise the question of the role of the armed force in domestic unrest.  From  Charles Doyle and Jennifer Elsea, "The ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

In and Out of Poverty

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Fifty years ago today, LBJ declared war on poverty .  A Census report explains that poverty can be temporary: The Census also offer...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Syria and Vietnam

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A post in May discussed President Obama's 2012 comment about a "red line" in Syria . Now the government is contemplating mili...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The GOP and the South

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At RealClearPolitics , Sean Trende takes on the notion that the GOP gained ground in the South only because of racial appeals that started...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

The President as Consoler

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After the Connecticut massacre yesterday, an emotional President Obama made a statement on national television: Other presidents hav...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Race and the Vote: More Historical Context

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An earlier post presented exit poll data showing that, in every presidential election since 1972, the Republican has carried the white vote...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Clergy and the 1964 Civil Rights Act

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The new volume of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson has a fascinating passage about the role of clergy in the victory of the 1...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

November 22, 1963: JFK Dies, LBJ Takes Oath

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John F. Kennedy died on this date in 1963. Professor John McAdams of Marquette University has an excellent web page on the assassination a...