Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

"Tweety Bird" to LBJ. But you didn't hear it from me!!! Read Full Story

August 27, 2008, marks the one-hundredth birthday of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United States. Johnson took the oath of office aboard Air Force One after the November 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, and served as chief executive during one of the more trying times of the republic. This presidential portrait of Johnson was painted by artist Peter Heard in 1967; it is on view at the National Portrait Gallery , in the " America's Presidents " exhibition. Known for his up-close and abrasive tactics of persuasion and administration, Lyndon Johnson’s management style was not dissimilar to his ... Read Full Story

by Eric Dondero President Lyndon Baines Johnson famously told an ongoing joke during his Senate years, that in South Texas they'd find enough votes to elect the Democrats, even if that meant going to the grave yards across south Texas to mark down names. News 2 Houston is now reporting on a finding by TexasWatchdog.org that more than 4,000 voters in Harris County are dead. The group matched obituary lists to voter rolls. But this goes beyond just late purges by the voting office. One woman was found to have voted in the March primary fully 10 months after she passed away. From News ... Read Full Story

By Patrick J. Buchanan It was the winter of conservative discontent. Barry Goldwater had gotten only 38 percent of the vote, and his party had suffered its worst thrashing since Alf Landon fell to FDR in 1936. Democrats held 295 House seats, Republicans 140. They held 68 Senate seats to Republicans’ 32, and 33 governors to the GOP’s 17. Democratic registration was twice that of the GOP. The liberal press was gleefully writing the obituary of “The Party That Lost Its Head.” Decades might pass, it was said, before the GOP recovered from its fatal embrace of right-wing radicalism and foolish rejection of the ... Read Full Story

Richard M. Nixon took the reins of power from Lyndon B. Johnson forty years ago. It doesn't seem that long. The 56-year-old Nixon was sworn into office by Chief Justice Earl Warren at ceremonies on the east plaza of the Capitol, on January 20, 1969. Following his move into the White House, Nixon brought in what amounted to a wrecking crew to dismantle and remove virtually everything that was a reflection of the LBJ years, right down to repainting the walls and ripping up the carpet in the Oval Office. The country was in big trouble in 1968, a violent year that took the ... Read Full Story