Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.” Lyndon B. Johnson, address to the nation, November 28, 1963 36th president of US (1908 - 1973)  

Even if the television tube and a ubiquitous Texan had yet to be conceived, the President of the U.S. in the latter third of the 20th century would almost certainly be the world's most exhaustively scrutinized, analyzed and criticized figure. As it ...  

Once, many years ago, there was a Texan in the White House by the name of Lyndon Baines Johnson, better known as LBJ. And there were many legends about LBJ. A number are recounted in a privately printed best-selling book, "A Texan Looks at Lyndon" by J. Events Haley. Haley, born in 1901, was a rancher, a segregationist, a fierce opponent of FDR and his policies, and a good friend who had ridden the Texas cattle trails to Chicago as a young man...  

One of the challenges in arguing about the use of the filibuster is that the filibuster has changed drastically in recent decades, but it's done so quietly. Quietly enough that people don't really understand that it's changed at all. That leads to an understandable complacency: If we've always had the filibuster, and we've done pretty well thus far, then maybe the filibuster isn't worth mucking with. But though we've long had the filibuster...  

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.  

In the mid-1960’s President Lyndon Baines Johnson agonized throughout his White House years about the War in Vietnam. Like Mr. Obama, he was pursuing an ambitious, controversial, and expensive social agenda, which included Medicare and Medicaid, two of the three programs that currently are bankrupting the country.  

... 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 ...  

Tonight, Obama pulls a Wilson-FDR-Johnson. Having been elected as the relative peace candidate, he is escalating his war on Afghanistan. He is also urging young Afghan men to enlist in the government army of an oil lobbyist and die for the US and its pipeline. Actually, this is Nixon's Vietnamization ...  

Earlier this year, President Obama described the conflict in Afghanistan as a "war of necessity," but the plan he announced last night at West Point bears disturbing reminders of the doomed strategy doggedly pursued by the last Democratic president to commit the United States to a major land war in Asia. President Johnson's Vietnam strategy rejected decisive military action in favor of a policy of gradual escalation that conveniently allowed...  

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...  

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 [...]  

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 ...  

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.  

In 1980, some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy. In 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the waves off Comoros Islands, killing about two-thirds of the 175 people on board.  

Joe Lieberman is the single most powerful Senate force since Lyndon Johnson's Master of the Senate days. And his power teaches an important lesson to us all.