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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...
Double Take: Lyndon Johnson Was Nearly Shot By Secret Service? A Day After JFK Died?
Hey hey, LBJ, how many times were you almost accidentally shot by the Secret Service today? NewsFeed sometimes gives The Huffington Post a hard time, but we...
A Brief History of Political Profanity
President Obama wants to kick some ass. During a June 8 interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show, Obama said he had been talking to experts about the BP oil...
The Moment
Somewhere, the ghost of Lyndon B. Johnson is smiling. Senator Olympia Snowe's lone Republican vote for health-care reform in the Senate Finance Committee didn't...
What Kind of Temperament Is Best?
TIME recently gathered four presidential historians--George Mason University's Richard Norton Smith, Yale University's Beverly Gage, and Russell Riley and David...
Lady Bird Johnson, 1912-2007
In the often brutal game of national politics where Lady Bird Johnson dwelt in some manner for nearly 70 years she was, said Hugh Sidey, TIME's late chronicler...
On Her Trail
The first time I ever heard my mother sound nervous was last July, and by then she had been dead for two years. I was at the L.B.J. library in Austin, Texas,...
WHO WROTE THIS (EXPLETIVE DELETED)?
As someone who wrote campaign speeches for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, I naturally assumed that the publication of Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes,...
The Presidency Reach Out and Twist an Arm
"People were grievin' and cryin' and hidin' their babies under the bed," Lyndon Johnson once recalled about the hours and days following the assassination of...
History: A Texas-Size L.B.J. Obsession
Lyndon Baines Johnson may have been larger than life, but since his death 16 years ago, he has been getting bigger. The growth spurt is due largely to the...
Bully for A Good Cause
THE TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS by Joseph A. Califano Jr.; Simon & Schuster; 398 pages; $25 Discovering the truth about Lyndon...
Books: The Making of Landslide Lyndon
MEANS OF ASCENT by Robert A. Caro; Knopf; 506 pages; $24.95 Good histories bestow suspense on foregone conclusions. Such works manage to override knowledge about...
Was Lyndon Johnson Unstable?
| Even before the Viet Nam War consumed Lyndon Johnson, his dark rantings sometimes shocked the White House press corps. The first serious criticism of his...
People: Sep. 1, 1986
As a stand-up comedian just after the heyday of "Hey, hey, L.B.J." protests, Randy Quaid used to do a takeoff routine on Lyndon Johnson. "He was always some kind...
Architecture: The Ten-Gallon Stack
President Hoover's library sits in West Branch, Iowa, Eisenhower's in Abilene, Kans., Truman's in Independence, Mo., and Kennedy's will be located in...
Democrats: Taking the Johnson Pledge
Though the Republican contenders are generating all the excitement and all the headlines as New Hampshire's March 12 primary approaches, a well-organized,...
