Word: johnson
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Twenty-five years ago, President Lyndon Johnson unveiled his War on Poverty. According to his rhetoric, there would be no more hunger, homelessness or destitution anywhere in America. The poor were Americans just like everyone else, except they weren't sharing in the American dream. It was vogue to talk about the poor; poverty was seen as the evil, but the "poor" were...
Paul Pierson, instructor in Government, believes one reason for the reversal in attitude is the shift in swing voters over the last 25 years. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson believed he needed the Black vote in order to win re-election. His War on Poverty represented, at least in part, an attempt to appeal to this crucial constituency...
...course, I don't want to be injudicious in my analysis of Goodwin, but he seems to have provided a defense of my less-than-informed opinion in the course of making his argument about Johnson's sanity. While supposedly a raving lunatic over Vietnam and Robert Kennedy, Johnson was also mysteriously able to navigate through Congress the most impressive legislative agenda of any president in American history. Case closed...
...Mike Douglas Show call para-pneumoreactionary paralysis. I also have lingering suspicions that Goodwin's obsessive desire to paint LBJ as crazy hints at some problems closer to home. Lurching about accusing the president of being a cuckoo bird, Goodwin is not exactly a cheerful model of sanity. Maybe Johnson's toilet escapades were just imaginative ploys designed to relieve a president of an annoying junior assistant...
This year Yohe is the second-rated passer in the Ivies behind Mark Johnson of Dartmouth. But he has thrown nine interceptions and just eight TD passes...