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Applying Historical Lessons to Health Care Reform

Bill Cunningham | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Neustadt, Bob Dole, Pat Moynihan, Robert Caro, President Obama, 1964 Civil Rights Bill, James Carville, Analogies, Tom Johnson, Clinton Health Reform, Hubert Humphrey, Politics News
Bill Cunningham

In the health care fight, perhaps Rahm Emmanuel and Company might have benefited from looking at President Lyndon Baines Johnson's approach to the various Civil Rights bills that passed on his watch.

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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
Stanton Peele

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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O'Malley vs. Moses, a Half-Century Later

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Walter O’Malley, Robert Caro, Los Angeles Dodgers, Michael Shapiro, Tom Oliphant, Robert Moses, Neil Sullivan, Brooklyn Dodgers, Henry Fetter, Michael D'Antonio, New York News
Robert E. Murphy

The words "Brooklyn" and "Dodgers" were so firmly bonded that their separation had not been imaginable, but in 1957 Walter O'Malley managed to separate them.

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Don't Do It, Rahm!

William Klein | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Great Mentioner, Robert Caro, Sarah Lawrence College, Rahm Emanuel, Russell Baker, 2008 Presidential Race, Harry Truman, Tom Daschle, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, 2008 Election, Crumhorn, Barack Obama, Socialists, Politics News
William Klein

Even if helping Obama means more to Rahm Emanuel than his personal political career, he can do more for Barack by staying in the House.

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Why This Is A Night To Remember

Sandy Goodman | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Caro, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Selma, Obama, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

The dramatic drive to move forward as a nation enables a black man to be chosen tonight as one of the two major party candidates for president, something unthinkable less than half a century ago.

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