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The Time The President Didn't Intervene

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: John v. Lindsay, Liberal Party, Robert F. Wagner Jr., David Paterson, New York Politics, Hubert H. Humphrey, Barack Obama, New York, Robert F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Obama Paterson, Lyndon B. Johnson, New York Mayor, 1965, Lbj, Lyndon Johnson, Newsweek, John Lindsay, Robert Kennedy, New York News
John R. Bohrer

In the first year of his first elected term, Lyndon Johnson made the presidency look easy. Landmark bills on education, health care and civil rights were flying through Congress. But he stayed out of New York politics.

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1968 to 2008: We Must Not Screw This Up

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Democratic Convention, Hubert H. Humphrey, 1968 Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Politics News
Beth Arnold

Forty years ago my family was taking its annual vacation, which in the summer of 1968 was a trip to the Democratic National Convention, where my fathe...

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''The Vice President is The Only Person The President Can't Fire.''

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Alexander P. Throttlebottom, 12th Amendment, Chester Alan Arthur, Hubert H. Humphrey, Thomas Jefferson, George and Ira Gershwin, Barack Obama, Aaron Burr, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert C. Wood, John Adams, John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Great Society, Millard Fillmore, Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney., Barack Obama Vice President, Vice President, Suburbia, Hillary Clinton Vice President, Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers, Politics News
Martin Nolan

Barack Obama is pressured by Hillary Clinton to select her as VP, a mathematical question arises: why would he choose someone whom record numbers of Democrats have voted against?

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