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FDR
*Foreign Disaster Relief, per this Pentagon inspector general’s report released Wednesday. This opens up a whole new field: JFK: Joint Foreign Kaffeeklatch (sure...
10 Questions for Robert Caro
The Passage of Power is your fourth book so far on President Lyndon B. Johnson, to whom you have devoted more than 3,000 pages and 35 years of your life. Why...
U.S.S. L.B.J.?
Poor Navy Secretary Ray Mabus just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to naming ships. After a fluffy of controversy for naming vessels after the like of...
George W. Bush and the Texas Air National Guard
Speaking (as we just did awhile back about LBJ’s past) of presidential recollections, it’s hard to believe this was the hottest story going for several weeks...
Mitt Romney’s Poverty Problem
The crowd was 80,000 strong. At the University of Michigan’s 1964 commencement, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood in the campus’s Michigan Stadium and unveiled...
Photo Essays
How Presidents Age in Office
From LBJ to Barack Obama, a look at what the toughest job in the world can do to a person
