Argues that President Johnson helped to plan the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy.
But it goes beyond the political battles to the echoes of 1968, with racial tensions that have spilled over in places like Ferguson, Missouri, and the ongoing struggle to overcome racial disparities in many sectors of American society.
A poll coming to Johnson four days before the election showed him with a 61 percent to 39 percent lead . ... Republicans began distributing , especially in the South and the West , copies of A Texan Looks at Lyndon by J. Evetts Haley .
This historically significant book proves that power, money, corruption, and deception were at the heart of American politics in the early 1960s. “Barr McClellan's insider's voice is a valuable addition to those who earnestly seek the ...
The third man wounded in Dealey Plaza on the day of Kennedy's assassination describes his experience and reveals evidence he has accumulated in the fifty years since that indicts Lyndon Johnson and his cronies in JFK's murder.
"We appreciate Roger Stone, he is one tough cookie.
Quoted in Jack Valenti, A Very Human President (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975), 133; also Lady Bird Johnson diary, March 11, 1966, in Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1975), 370-371; Merle Miller ...
Jacobson's normally crowded practice was emptied of patients. Only his wife Nina and a nurse remained. Kennedy complained of feeling drained, of losing concentration. “The demands of his political campaign were so great he felt fatigued ...
A Des Moines Register reporter calculated that LBJ thereafter rejected at least a dozen successive staff appeals for food aid reform . 331 “ The two bills were incredibly intricate ” : Newfield , 104–5 ; Levinson interview .
LBJ's Neglected Legacy examines the domestic policy achievements of one of America's most effective, albeit controversial, leaders.
Looking squarely at the staggering deficits of the Reagan years, Bush violated a campaign pledge and struck a deal with a Democratic-controlled Congress to raise taxes in order to put the country's fiscal affairs in order.