LBJ

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• SOURCE: Responsible Statecraft
  3/30/2021
  

  Will Afghanistan make Biden's Presidency Turn Out like Truman's or LBJ's?

  by Joe Cirincione

  "Joe Biden can be a great president. But not if he is so afraid of attacks from the right that he repeats LBJ’s blunder and stumbles into a war we cannot win and never need fight."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/15/2021
  

  The Lost Story of Lady Bird

  by Julia E. Sweig

  "It is perhaps ironic that so many historians, intent as they are on the president, have missed her sway in the White House, because Lyndon himself was not shy in acknowledging Lady Bird’s crucial role in his administration."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/2020
  

  Trump’s Claim that He’s Done More for Black Americans than any President Since Lincoln (Fact Check)

  Historians Michael Beschloss, David Garrow, H.W. Brands, Max J. Skidmore and David Greenberg argue that LBJ is in fact second to Lincoln in this regard.

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• 10/3/19
  

  In The Great Society, We Get a Marvelous, If Painful, Look at LBJ and the War that Won’t Go Away

  by Bruce Chadwick

  This powerful play is a painful reminder of history lost, of all those brave Americans who fought so gallantly for their country in that war, and came home battered and defeated.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  7/20/19
  

  Lyndon Johnson’s Unsung Role in Sending Americans to the Moon

  As chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, a White House advisory group, Johnson moved quickly to “dominate Washington space activities."

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  7/1/19
  

  Reflecting On The Civil Rights Act’s Anniversary With James Baldwin

  by Lindsey R. Swindall

  Much like the time in which Baldwin wrote, we are living through a period of deep political division and social crisis framed by global discord.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/1/19
  

  Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction

  He’s just published a book called “Working.” It’s a gift, a collection of interviews and essays that talk about the craft of what he does.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/22/19
  

  Robert Caro’s Blind Spot

  Why does the exhaustive biographer overlook Lyndon Johnson’s virulent misogyny?

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/4/19
  

  Biographer Robert Caro Pauses as He Prepares His Final Lyndon B. Johnson Volume

  “The most comfortable position in the world is not lying in bed,” Caro says. “It’s sitting at this desk.”

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• SOURCE: CNN
  11-6-18
  

  Lyndon B. Johnson warned us about this

  by Julian Zelizer

  Less than 48 hours before the 1966 midterms, just like today, LBJ saw in the electorate a noxious mix of white anger, hatred and resentment.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-4-18
  

  Foreign powers interfered in the 1968 election. Why didn’t LBJ stop them?

  by Arnold A. Offner

  Was his disdain for his vice president greater than his desire for Democrats to win?

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• SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
  10-24-18
  

  That sensational New York Times story about LBJ saving America from nuclear war in Vietnam is wrong says author Gregg Jones

  by Gregg Jones

  It was based on Michael Beschloss’s new book.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-7-18
  

  The Story of the 25th Amendment, According to the People Behind It

  President Lyndon B. Johnson during the ceremony to ratify the 25th amendment at the White House in 1967. The amendment came about because of succession concerns if the president became incapacitated.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-24-18
  

  Conan O’Brien’s Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro

  The famed biographer of LBJ keeps saying no to interviews.

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• 6/3/18
  

  What LBJ Warned Allies in the Gun Control Debate After Robert Kennedy Was Assassinated

  by Kyle Longley

  “We have only two weeks, maybe only 10 days before the gun lobby gets organized.”

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• SOURCE: US News and World Report
  4-15-18
  

  Robert Caro Talks Lyndon Johnson, Music and the 1960s

  He has been thinking a lot about the 1960s as he finishes up (hopefully) his final book on LBJ.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-30-18
  

  Lyndon Johnson left office as a deeply unpopular president

  by Bruce J. Schulman

  So why is he so admired today?

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• 4/1/18
  

  This Is What LBJ Did When He Heard that MLK Had Been Killed

  by Kyle Longley

  It shows you what a president with empathy for African Americans does.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-24-18
  

  Why Lyndon Johnson Dropped Out

  by Fredrik Logevall

  He had known for years that the Vietnam War would destroy him. In March 1968, it did.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  3-11-18
  

  Remembering 1968: How an upstart primary challenge ended a presidency

  Lyndon Johnson had the power of incumbency, but his prospects fell when an upstart, Eugene McCarthy, decided to challenge him in the primaries.