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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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On Friday night, Bill Moyers played clips from the Lyndon B. Johnson tapes on his PBS television show. Moyers drew correlations between the factors facing President Johnson in his decision to send more troops to Vietnam, and President Obama's conundrum with respect to the war in Afghanistan.
From his closing statement:
Now in a different world, at a different time, and with a different president, we face the prospect of enlarging a...
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Steven Gillon, history professor at the University of Oaklahoma and resident historian at the History channel, details the hours following the Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963 and the transfer of the presidency from John F Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson.
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Was the Vietnam War an act of prescience, or simply a prelude to today? You decide. The first 1000 people who respond to this blog will receive a free DVD copy of last Friday's PBS show, Bill Moyers Journal.
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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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The dedication Friday of a multimillion-dollar renovation of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum Plaza was a tribute to Lady Bird Johnson, who died two years ago.
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Married 75 years ago today in Johnson City, Texas, where — full disclosure — I own property. Johnson City, Fredericksburg, Stonewall (where the LBJ Ranch is located) and Blanco have grown considerably over the years; market a bit soft even though this part of Texas has one of the strongest real estate stories in the [...]
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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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From motherjones.com
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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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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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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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