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Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park
The Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park is a National Historical Park in Johnson City, TX. This area is protected by the federal government for its historical significance.
Lady Bird Johnson and The Kennedy's
The Kennedys and Johnsons relax at the Kennedy family mansion a
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... the loss of unifying purpose. With so many problems flowing together, the nation was battered by a flood tide of frustration and anxiety. A doubt that in the past had rarely been articulated or even felt crept into the American consciousness: Is ...
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As the Democratic leadership keeps rolling over to one health care industry demand after another, I'm reminded of a post that I wrote on my Unsilent Generation blog nearly a year ago, as Obama prepared to take office after promising to reform the American health care system. It's about President Lyndon B. Johnson’s successful effort, back in 1965, to create the Medicare and Medicaid programs–-the only single-payer health care this nation has...
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Advice For Obama: Knock Heads On Health Care He 'could take a few pages from Lyndon Johnson's book,' says Rep. Conyers WASHINGTON - The most senior African-American in Congress offered some unsolicited advice Monday to President Barack Obama on how to get his signature health care bill through a balky Senate: knock their heads together. "The president could take a few pages from Lyndon Johnson's book ... and start knocking heads together...
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A historian is casting doubt on one of the headlines about Senator Edward M. Kennedy's memoir -- that his brother Robert asked in a secret 1967 meeting then-President Lyndon B. Johnson to let him negotiate peace in Vietnam. "He would shuttle back and ...
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It's early in 1965, and President Lyndon B. Johnson faces a critical decision. Should he escalate in Vietnam? Should he say "yes" to the request from U.S. commanders for more troops? Or should he change strategy, downsize the American commitment, even withdraw completely, a decision that would help him focus on his top domestic priority, "The Great Society" he hopes to build?
We all know what happened. LBJ listened to the generals and foreign...
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- After JFK: How LBJ took control Nov. 22, 1963 (post-gazette.com)
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President Lyndon Johnson and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made stark warnings about global warming decades ago, but convincing evidence for action only amassed in recent years, experts say.
A 190-nation U.N. conference in Copenhagen in December is due to agree a new U.N. pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions to slow a rise in temperatures to prevent floods, droughts, wildfires or rising sea levels.
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The New York Times: "President Obama faces perhaps the ultimate presidential test in the weeks ahead: maneuvering a big health care bill through a fractious Congress. For tips on how to manage it, there’s no better advisor than Lyndon B. Johnson, who won Medicare over fierce opposition in 1965. "In...
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And I'm worrying about it.It's Tom Paxton's "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation"And my brain has replaced "Lyndon Johnson" with "Barack Obama" and "We're sending fifty thousand more, To help save Viet nam from Viet namese." with "We're sending forty thousand more, To help save Afganistan from the Afganis"So, like I said...worried.
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On this day in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson bestowed the Congressional Medal of Honor on Sgt. David Dolby, a member of the Army's 1st Calvary Division. On May 21, 1966, the 21-year-old Dolby had saved many of his fellow soldiers' lives during an ...
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Former President Lyndon B. Johnson had a unique talent for “bullying” and “cajoling” which helped him pass Medicare legislation early in his presidency, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute Stephen Hess and Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift ...
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