Lyndon Johnson

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• SOURCE: University of Virginia
  12/1/2020
  

  How the 1968 Presidential Transition Compares to Today’s

  by Marc Selverstone

  Taped recordings from the Lyndon Johnson White House reveal the conflict between LBJ and Richard Nixon over the degree to which a president-elect could expect to influence policy before being inaugurated. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/5/2020
  

  The Supreme Court We Need

  by Linda Greenhouse

  The veteran Supreme Court reporter argues that the nation needs the court to enable government to actually take action to solve big national problems. 

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• SOURCE: Miller Center (University of Virginia)
  6/15/2020
  

  Lyndon Johnson Addresses the Nation on Civil Disorders (July 27, 1967)

  Lyndon Johnson's words after rioting erupted in Detroit speak to ongoing concerns in American society.   

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  6/7/2020
  

  2020 Is Not 1968. It May Be Worse.

  by Niall Ferguson

  The Hoover Institution Senior Fellow suggests that the current political climate--a reelection campaign amid multiple national crises--has both similarities and differences from 1968. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/5/2020
  

  Can 50 Years of Minimizing Nuclear Proliferation Continue?

  by Ivo H. Daalder

  The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has mostly succeeded in keeping more countries out of the nuclear club. But as U.S. alliances fray, its future success is not assured.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-5-18
  

  The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s

  by Margaret O’Mara

  Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are.

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• 6-5-16
  

  What “All the Way” Reminds Us Is How Complicated LBJ Was

  by John Baick

  He was Hillary, Bernie and Trump rolled into one.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  2-21-16
  

  When Lame Duck Lyndon Johnson Lost on the Supreme Court

  by Mark K. Updegrove

  They say past is prologue, and the waning days of the Johnson presidency are a lesson for President Obama in his upcoming Supreme Court fight.

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• 12-20-15
  

  This Is Something Else the Leading GOP Candidates Don’t Understand

  by Gregory Sumner

  The president of the United States has to be a Moral-Leader-in-Chief

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• When Did Police Start Looking Like Soldiers in a Combat Zone? No, You're Wrong. It Wasn't in the Aftermath of Iraq.

  by Alex Elkins

  Lyndon Johnson hitched his War on Poverty to a War on Crime that combined community outreach and “get-tough” policing.

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• 8-3-14
  

  50 Years Ago Congress Gave the President a Blank Check for War

  by Leonard Steinhorn

  The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the hubris behind it were the linchpins of Johnson’s Shakespearean Vietnam tragedy – and ours as well.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-8-14
  

  At the LBJ Presidential Library, Giving Nuance to History

  “It is all here: the story of our time — with the bark off."--LBJ