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Doris Kearns Goodwin Wants "More LBJ" From Obama When Dealing With Congress (VIDEO)

Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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Noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke with MSNBC's Ed Schultz tonight about the Obama presidency as it reaches the one year mark. Polls show tha...

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Why Can't Obama Be More Like LBJ?

Stanton Peele | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Stanton Peele, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Coke Stevenson, Dwight Eisnhower, Vietnam War, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Cronkite, Robert Caro, Politics News

We are unlikely to ever again see the likes of LBJ -- or of the huge changes he crafted in our society -- and we are just now starting to understand what we have lost.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin On Rich History Of Mixing Politics And Drinking: "FDR During WWII Had A Cocktail Party Every Night" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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With the news confirmed that President Obama, Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley will get together at the White House to have a beer, Ed Schultz...

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How Abraham Lincoln's "Hot Letters" Can Keep You From Going All Alice Hoffman

David Quigg | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media

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We all have our limits. Abraham Lincoln's limit is that he left behind no wise counsel for the man who finds himself garmentless at 30,000 feet. But he did leave something for the Twitterers.

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Sacrifice Repaid: A Huffington Post Cause?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

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It's not enough to honor servicemen and women with parades. We need to repay their sacrifice with the resources they need and deserve.

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American Idol After Iraq: Restoring America's Influence in the World

Doris Kearns Goodwin | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

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This profound work deserves wide-ranging attention from policy makers in Washington, producers in Hollywood and all of us concerned with the competition for the hearts and minds of people in a global world.

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Abe Lincoln, my Historical Boyfriend

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Barack Obama, History, Living News

President Barack Obama isn't the only 40-something Abraham Lincoln admirer in Washington, D.C. We each love his way with words and his prairie populist provenance, but let's just say the 16th president is my historical boyfriend.

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Working Hard to Relax

Jamie Woolf | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Play, Relax, Parenting, Moms, Parents, Living News

We need reform in those pressure cookers we call the workplace. While your boss might not allow recess breaks, studies show that play increases productivity in the office up to 127 percent.

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Obama: Follow the Philosophical Footsteps of Abraham

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

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Lincoln's preservation of the union would not have been possible without his economic reform. It is the philosophy at the base of those achievements that must be the prototype for change in America now.

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Will Media Hucksters Wreck A Great American Story? They're Trying...

Tom Watson | Posted 02.18.2009 | Media

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The simple pageant of a peaceful transition of power in the United States doesn't need any tarting up. The inauguration of the first African-American man speaks for itself.

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Obama Poised to Become Most Ass-kissed President in History

Andy Borowitz | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics

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At the final press conference of his presidency, George W. Bush ruefully contrasted his treatment by the press with the historic level of suckage being bestowed on the President-elect's buttal region.

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Trouble Buying That Illinois Senate Seat? (A Cheaper Alternative for Holiday Gift-Giving)

David Quigg | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

I cannot be bought. Not for less than 20 bucks. So there's no need to worry that my judgment has been tainted by the fact that a publisher sent me a ...

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The Most Unlikely Bedfellows In Politics

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media

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Ever since the Season of Transition began, it hasn't escaped the media's attention that President-Elect Barack Obama has been signing up his political...

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Obama Names Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston to 'Team of Rivals'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

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Continuing in his quest to assemble a so-called "team of rivals," Obama today announced that he would name Jolie and Aniston to key Cabinet positions.

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Obama Reading Biography of Vlad the Impaler. May Decide to Insert Sharpened Sticks Up Rivals' Asses.

Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics

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An Obama spokesperson was quick to dismiss any thoughts of impaling. Though, off the record, expressed a wish that at some point they might come upon Joe Lieberman in the act of bending over.

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Team of Rivals: JFK's Lessons for Commander-in-Chief Obama

Gordon Goldstein | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

The new commander-in-chief would be wise to examine JFK's first year: Appoint the strongest team possible, yet be prepared to reject your counselors' advice, even when vastly outnumbered.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Masterstroke, Mousetrap, Or Both?

William Bradley | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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Potential Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Is it a masterstroke by President-elect Obama? A mousetrap for the Clintons? Is it even happening at all?

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Clinton as VP - Obama's Best Choice

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics

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With the former First Lady on the ticket, all evidence points to united party and a Democratic victory in November.

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Obama Wants 'Team Of Rivals' Cabinet, May Keep Bush's Defense Secretary

Time | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama has never been shy about comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln. He did so when he announced his candidacy at the Illinois state capitol, w...

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Doris Kearns Goodwin At Tim Russert's Memorial (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media

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Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke at Tim Russert's memorial service Wednesday afternoon at the Kennedy Center. Watch the speech below (transcript below): ...

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Tim Meets The Ladies

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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It's not that there are never women on Meet The Press, and it's also not rare for the opening panel to consist homogeneously of one sex. It's just damned rare for that one sex to be female.

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