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Afghanistan is now President Obama's war, and the immediate question in Washington is whether his military escalation will succeed. Full Article at U.S. News & World Report
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As Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson once said of the Joint Economic Committee, Its as useless as tits on a bull. Full Article at Roll Call
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This NASA file image shows former President Lyndon Johnson (C), Lady Bird Johnson (third from left, center) and then Vice-President Spiro Agnew (second from right, center) at the July 16, 1969 launching of Apollo 11 at the Kennedy Space Center Launch Co... View Photo »
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I believe the Congress and the American people approve my goals of economy and efficiency ... I believe they are as opposed to waste as I am. We can and will eliminate it.
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Chelsea, incidentally, won’t be the first of presidential stock to enter a Jewish family. Claudia Taylor Brod, grandchild of Lyndon Johnson, converted to Judaism and lives in Miami. And Franklin Roosevelt’s great-grandson, Joshua Boettiger, is a rabbi. Full Article at The Jewish Chronicle
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 1961, file photo Caroline Kennedy wonders at the Christmas tree in the White House Blue Room before a party for White House employees given by her parents. Full Article at San Diego Union-Tribune
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Christmas at the White House," by Jennifer B. Pickens: The first known Christmas tree at the White House was in the tenure of Benjamin Harrison, who helped trim one in the upstairs library with friends, family and staff. Full Article at Simple Thoughts
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FILE - In a March 16, 1961 file photo, U.S. President John F. Kennedy sits in his favorite rocking chair in his office during a meeting with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, right, at the White House in Washingt... View Photo »
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The American people tend to rally around their presidents in military matters, at least for a while. It took some time for similar type speeches about Vietnam and Iraq by Presidents Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush respectively to lose their ability to rally support.
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There is an increasing mismatch between the demands on the American presidency and the realities that constrain it, says Godfrey Hodgson Every president of the United States has to play chess on more than one board at a time. Full Article at Dallas Blog
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Notwithstanding President Obama’s agonizing, his refusal to stay the momentum of war looks like Vietnam to me. Lyndon B. Johnson also had misgivings before committing troops to Vietnam. Nonetheless, he walked briskly into the quicksand. Full Article at The New York Times
About Lyndon B. Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969) and 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963). Full Article
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In this photo taken Dec. 2, 2009, portraits of former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson are seen in the Cross Hall near the staircase to family quarters at the White House in Washington decorated for the Christmas holidays.
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Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. , walks to the Lyndon B. Johnson Room for a Democratic caucus on health care on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, in Washington.
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FILE - In this Jan. 9 1963 file photo, Edward M. Kennedy takes the oath of office as a Democratic Senator from Massachusetts in a re-enactment of the swearing-in ceremony with Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, has died after battling a brain tumor.
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FILE - In this May 25, 1961, file photo, President John F. Kennedy speaks in the House of Representatives before a joint session of Congress in Washington. In the background are Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
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FILE - In a November 23, 1963 file photo, President Lyndon B. Johnson confers with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara died Monday, July 6, 2009, according to his wife. He was 93.
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From Right: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, US President Lyndon B. Johnson and US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, listen 11 September 1964 in the White House in Washington, DC, to the new US Ambassador to South Vietnam, General Maxwell Taylor (2nd-R).
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I believe the Congress and the American people approve my goals of economy and efficiency ... I believe they are as opposed to waste as I am. We can and will eliminate it.
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The American people tend to rally around their presidents in military matters, at least for a while. It took some time for similar type speeches about Vietnam and Iraq by Presidents Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush respectively to lose their ability to rally support.
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President Obama, like Lyndon B. Johnson in Vietnam, does not want the blame of losing a war on his shoulders
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That’s what happened with the Vietnam War, which wiped out [President Lyndon Johnson's social program] the Great Society ... That’s what happened with the Korean War, which wiped out Harry Truman’s Square Deal. That’s what happened with the end of the progressive movement before the ’20s when we went in...
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Barack Obama is not Lyndon Johnson, Afghanistan is not Vietnam and this is now, not then. But listen and you will hear echoes and refrains that resonate today.
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It is tantamount to Franklin Roosevelt sitting waiting for the Senate to pass Social Security or Lyndon Johnson sitting there waiting to pass Medicare
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First-term presidents who had sub-50% approval ratings at the midterms -- including Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton -- saw their parties suffer large congressional seat losses.
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In 10 months after Ralph's 1965 book, 'Unsafe at Any Speed,' came out, indicting the auto industry for producing unsafe vehicles, the National Highway Safety Administration bill was signed by President Lyndon Johnson
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LBJ isn't deeply concerned about ... who governs South Vietnam — he's deeply concerned with what the average American voter is going to think about how he did in the ballgame of the Cold War ... The great Cold War Championship gets played in the largest stadium in the United States, and he, Lyndon Johns...
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With American forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama's name had not figured in speculation about the winner until minutes before the prize was announcedâŚreporters asked whether Mr. Obama might not become mired in a war in Afghanistan as Lyndon B. Johnson was in Vietnam.
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What has he delivered for Nevada? … Lyndon Johnson gave Texas NASA. Robert Byrd is bringing the CIA to West Virginia.
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Obama's style has to be more Lyndon Johnson, half I love you, but I'll stick this screwdriver right through your heart in a second if it is to my advantage.
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I was the interviewer and it rocked me a little ... In the same conversation Ms. Thomas said 'Nancy Reagan was a heroine in my opinion,' expressed tender sympathy for Lyndon Johnson and great respect for Gerald Ford.
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The Job Corps is not a new program ... President Lyndon Johnson initiated it in 1964. It is funded through the Department of Labor.
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So many people were suffering when Lyndon Johnson was able to convince enough members of Congress, including some Republicans, to vote for it
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On foreign policy, Bush looks a lot like Lyndon Johnson--but only if Johnson, after years of unsuccessful escalation, had bequeathed Richard Nixon a new strategy that enabled U.S. troops to withdraw from Vietnam with their honor largely intact.
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Some people could make the argument that Bush was the most liberal president since Lyndon Johnson
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Asked whether he worried about repeating the fate of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who declined to seek re-election in 1968 as a result of the turmoil over Vietnam, Mr. Obama replied: 'You have to learn lessons from history. On the other hand, each historical moment is different. You never step into the ...
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Except the movements that brought about the progressive changes ot the thirties and sixties benefitted from the strong leadership of Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, whereas, today we're stuck with the wishy-washy, with us one day, gone the next, accomodate the opposition no m...
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If it weren't for Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson might have gone down as one of history's great presidents
SOURCE: Scranton Times-Tribune
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