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...sought to unify the small nation. Then in 1964 Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. It gave President Lyndon Johnson the authority to deploy combat troops to Vietnam, and over the next decade more than a million U.S. soldiers were...
...understatement to call him an institution, but this chamber will never be the same without him."In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson urged Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who had won the Democratic nomination for president, to select Inouye as his...
...led a full and historic life - pictures signed by Lyndon Johnson and Coretta Scott King, photographs from the Oval...fourth and final volume of his series of books on Lyndon Johnson. "And he has the ability, which not every participant...
...Ending, by Julian Barnes10. Stolen Prey, by John SandfordHARDCOVER NONFICTION1. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro2. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, by Anna Quindlen3. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed4. Imagine...
...running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.Alaskans last chose a Democrat in 1964 when they voted for President Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater by a 2-1 margin.Neither Romney nor Obama campaigned in Alaska.Constitutional Convention...
...by Anne Tyler10. "The Innocent," by David BaldacciHARDCOVER NONFICTION1. "The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," by Robert A. Caro2. "Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake," by Anna Quindlen3. "Drift," by Rachel Maddow4...
...without recognizing the value of his foreign policy views. Doing so would be inversely similar to pardoning President Lyndon Johnson's disastrous escalation of the Vietnam War because his Great Society legislation helped reduce poverty and racial...
...see 1981's $1.35 again. In "The Path to Power," historian Robert Caro described the political ambitions of Lyndon Johnson in 1940, then a 32-year-old congressman. Johnson, born dirt poor and still struggling, surprisingly turned...
In 1968, Republicans and southern Democrats filibustered Abe Fortas, Lyndon Johnson's nominee for Supreme Court Chief justice, and some of the people now criticizing the filibuster have used it in the past...
...the issues. Frankly, we could have done with a lot more "flip-flopping" from our most recent presidents. If Lyndon Johnson had "flip-flopped" and withdrawn our forces from Vietnam, the lives of 63,000 American troops and a million...