Tag Archives: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Wait – Barack Obama IS Like LBJ After All!

Posted on April 11, 2014 by

As America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the hot parlor game is to compare ‘n’ contrast Lyndon Baines Johnson’s style of presidenting with Barack Obama’s, largely to the latter’s detriment. As Obama journeyed to … Continue reading →

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WSJ’s Caro Di Tutti Cari Interview

Posted on May 6, 2012 by

Excellent Robert Caro interview in the Weekend Wall Street Journal: Robert Caro: Political Power—How to Get It and Use It Asked to define “political power”—the motif of his multivolume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson—historian Robert Caro falls silent. “I don’t … Continue reading →

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