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Johnson 'had the most idealistic aims,' Caro said. Photo by AP Photos Biographer Robert Caro said Thursday that Lyndon Johnson made possible Barack Obama’s election – and that of any other potential African-American presidential candidate, for that matter...
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LBJ will forever....
Johnson has more than enough to account for without laying that on him .
LBJ to thank for Obama as well, then Lyndon Johnson merely reaffirms his legacy as a rottenIt's really unfair to blame Obama on Johnson.
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In 1968, the political world was shocked when President Lyndon Johnson, running for reelection just four years after a landslide victory, was held beneath 50% of the vote in the Democrat primary in New Hampshire. Sen. Eugene McCarthy scored a shocking...
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Just the fact this is being discussed and is....
They assumed he would last 8 years, at least!
DT They assumed wrong .
For Obama.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 03:59 PM
The Wall Street Journal of April 28-29, 2012 contains a lengthy review by Robert Draper of Robert Caro’s new book, “The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power.”
Here are some highlights of the book review:
“…Mr. ...
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Will ,
Washington Post found himself on a narrative roll and wouldn’t let LBJ’s expeditious but hardly heroic commission slow of that Vietnam disaster that LBJ....
Posted 28 April 2012 - 04:08 PM
Going all the way with LBJ
By George F.
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It looks like a good site.
http://allthewaywithlbj.com/
SInce Caro seems to have decided to dodge the issue, maybe this guy did not.
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Jim, Fullbright scholar, KC Johnson is the author of the LBJ book you linked attuned to civil liberties issues than either the Bush or the Obama administrations (history will remember Obama in this context for....
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On 05.22.12 10:38 AM posted by Julia Shaw
Its commencement time again: rows of folding chairs, the polyester cap and gown, a dozen of your closest relatives listening intently for your name, and of course the big name speaker. Georgetowns School of Public...
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May 9, 2012 1:04 pm
By DOUGLAS MARTIN / The New York Times
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, who helped shape the political history of the 1960s, facing down segregationists, riding herd on historic civil rights legislation and helping to map Vietnam War strategy...
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~ Senator Barack H.
Americans deserve better.
And internationally.
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:17:48 -0500, Steele <Ironandsteele@hotmail.com
Cheney was not the first , as some here appear to believe. I posted
earlier this week about a Democrat with Halliburton/Brown and Root
tie, and was treated like I was posting ...
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And you will have plenty of
comparisons with Obama with the way he is double talking and continuing.
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:51:06 -0500, "Crap Detector" <detector@live.ca
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/10/obama-is-here-to-teach-us
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Unemployment plummeted under Reagan;
interest rates fell from double digit to under
one per cent; Americans...
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Republicanism....
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Newmax declares that Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and Bush II are the most
failed Presidents in history - the reason why this is the end for the
America hating GOP .
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:51:06 -0500, "Crap Detector" <detector@live.ca
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/10/obama-is-here-to-teach-us
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Unemployment plummeted under Reagan;
interest rates fell from double digit to under
one per cent; Americans...
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:00:53 -0500, Crap Detector <detector@live.ca
Newmax declares that Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and Bush II are the most
failed Presidents in history - the reason why this is the end for the
America hating GOP!
Republicanism... .
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On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:15:32 -0700 (PDT), Stan Boleslawski <boleslawski@forpresident.com
On Jul 2, 3:25 pm, Luke Schleusener <luke.schleuse...@gmail.comwrote:
Oscar Holcombe had a lock on the mayor's office
during that time. He was the dominant...
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Right; but I'm sure he'd decide it's not....
Yeah, so, Richards-Obama 2008?
Yeah; between the Depression.
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While I agree about LBJ, Hoover, and thereby, worse, by degrees.
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