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...TIME:Hillary Clinton made the point that it took Lyndon B. Johnson to implement some landmark civil rights laws. Looking back, will we credit, say, George W. Bush similarly, for appointing more women to senior and cabinet-level jobs than any of his predecessors...
...sort of thing. But bear down even slightly, and the notion of experience is liable to crack and run all over. If knowing the system is so useful, then second-term presidencies should be more successful than first-term. Instead, many Presidents lose effectiveness as they go along. Lyndon Johnson, for example: his experience as a master legislator no doubt helped as he steered his historic civil rights and welfare agenda to passage. By the end of two years as President, however, "he was out of gas," recalls Johnson aide Harry McPherson. The longer Johnson was in the Oval Office...
...that a Democratic president will take that risk is if people concerned with LGBT issues give him or her a reason to. It’s simply too much to ask of politicians to “just do it.” Although Senator Clinton might disagree, Lyndon Johnson did not step in front of a segregationist truck for the Civil Rights Act in 1964; he jumped on a much bigger truck, driven by the people of the Civil Rights Movement, that was barreling through its opposition...
...Roof” had already run a full weekend of performances in the Loeb Experimental Theater when directors Allegra M. Richards ’09 and Nathan D. Johnson ’09 saw their show nearly collapse. One of their actors, Delon J. De Metz ’10, was forced to drop out of the second weekend of performances, and the two directors had only three days to find and rehearse a new actor for the role.On the directors’ behalf, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) board liaison Simon J. Williams ’09 sent...
...news for Hillary is that the middle-class working people who were the heart of the party in the days of Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson have gone to the Republicans," says Paul Begala, a Texas Democrat who helped Bill Clinton reach the White House in 1992. "We still have the latte drinkers, but the cuppa-joe drinkers are mostly gone, and the Democrats have to find a way to bring them back...