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Remember the Chicken Hawks

James Moore | Posted 05.28.2012

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Some of us were marching off to war and some of us were marching in the streets of Washington. The Vietnam War very quickly created rifts in a generation.

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Caro Is Right About LBJ: I Know, I Was There

Newton N. Minow | Posted 05.22.2012

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Simply put, the LBJ I knew hungered for power, and knew he knew how to use it. The Kennedy I knew grudgingly but genuinely admired LBJ's ability. Robert Caro's book reminded me of a sad conversation I had with LBJ during the time he was languishing in the vice presidency.

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Bob Schieffer Tells Grads 'Something Wrong' With Politics

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.19.2012

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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Clad in purple socks, a nod to Louisiana State University's trademark purple and gold, and standing beneath a shimmering disco bal...

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Obama: The Black LBJ

Jason Stanford | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Robert Caro, Lbj, Lyndon Johnson, Log Cabin Republicans, The Passage of Power, Gay Marriage, Obama Marriage Equality, Lyndon Johnson Civil Rights, Politics News

Johnson rose through the legislative ranks as a segregationist Southerner, so when he ended a speech to a joint session of Congress with the phrase "We shall overcome," Johnson fundamentally changed the American political landscape.

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Former Kennedy, Johnson Aide Dies

AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 05.10.2012

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TRENTON, N.J. — While researching his epic series on Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro found himself again and again calling upon Nicholas deB. Katzen...

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Profiles in Political Courage

David Morris | Posted 05.07.2012

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In 2009 Obama put country above party. Bringing health security to over 30 million Americans and laying the foundation for a major restructuring of our health system were sufficient rewards for him to accept the political risks.

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Vietnam-Era Army Secretary Dies

AP | DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Stanley R. Resor, who served two presidents as secretary of the Army for six years during the height of the Vietnam War and represented ...

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A Reporter Remembers When History Tapped Him on the Shoulder

Al Eisele | Posted 04.13.2012

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Sid Davis was a 34-year-old White House correspondent for Westinghouse Radio covering President Kennedy's fateful visit to Dallas on Nov. 21, 1963. He was in the press bus close behind Kennedy's limousine when Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed Kennedy.

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Memo to Occupy Protesters: Don't Make The Mistakes We Made in the 60s

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 12.28.2011

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Somehow the hippie movement lost its unity and credibility when it became about flower children making love and tripping out instead of what we can do together to end war and create social justice.

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New Book Reveals Another Side Of Jacqueline Kennedy

AP | Posted 11.12.2011

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By Associated Press NEW YORK -- It's a side of Jacqueline Kennedy only friends and family knew. Funny and inquisitive, canny and cutting. In "Ja...

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JFK Scorned Notion Of LBJ As President, According To New Book

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 11.08.2011

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NEW YORK — President John F. Kennedy openly scorned the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeding him in office, according to a ...

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The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 10.24.2011

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How long will the Democrats continue their absurd charade? All the while claiming Republicans are racist, meanwhile the Democrats are the party with an equally bad history.

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Where's the Secretary of Poverty?

Jim Neal | Posted 09.30.2011

Poverty in America is the most corrosive of the wars we're losing but never mention. Poverty is not merely offensive to the human condition, it is also the enemy of economic and civil stability in America.

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Follower Failure on Debt Cap

Jim Jaffe | Posted 09.25.2011

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Some analysts have wrongly concluded that we have a leadership crisis.

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Texas, Hold 'im -- Please!

Garry South | Posted 09.24.2011

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Lone Star State, do the other 49 states a favor and keep Rick Perry at home. The country may simply not be able to survive another president from your state. Texas, don't mess with Uh-mur-i-cuh again -- please.

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Michelle Obama Makes First Lady History... and What Was She Wearing?

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was a gray dress. Enough said. Credit/Getty Images More vital to the long-term interests of the nation than the clothes she wore one particular...

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The Texas Politics (and Tennis) Tour

Jake Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you are planning a trip to Texas, consider stopping at these seven places where defining political moments happened.

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New Doc Shows Rumsfeld Challenged LBJ On Vietnam War

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as the architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but as a fledgling member of Congress, the future two-...

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Gun Violence Destroyed Christina's Dreams

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

How can President Obama tell us in his State of the Union that "the dreams of a little girl in Tucson... deserve the chance to be fulfilled," without talking about the gun violence that destroyed those dreams?

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Silent Night in America

Neil McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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"And so this is Christmas. And what have we done?" John Lennon's question hangs in the air this frustrating year. For liberals, the answer is "Not nearly enough."

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When U.S. Activist Set Himself on Fire to Protest a War

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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41 years ago this month, Norman Morrison, a Quaker from Baltimore handed his infant daughter off to a bystander, doused himself with kerosene and set himself ablaze under Robert McNamara's window at the Pentagon.

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Taking Comfort in the Zig-Zagging of American History

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011

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Like most everybody else on my side of the aisle, I've been casting around for ways to make sense of the midterm debacle. I regained some crucial pe...

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'Daisy' Ad Revisited To Urge Senate To Pass New START

Posted 05.25.2011

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A new take on Lyndon Johnson's controversial "Daisy" ad has been produced, in an effort to urge the incoming Senate to ratify a bilateral nuclear arms...

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Election Day November 2010

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Excerpted from the introduction to "The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office" by John Bredar. Scroll down to see a slide show ...

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Why the Great Recession is Not Another Great Depression

Joseph A. Califano Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's time for all Democrats to dust off their reluctance to mention LBJ and help our people understand that government is key in times like these, that in 2010 the Great Society is the difference between the Great Recession and another Great Depression.

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