Word: lyndon
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Keith said he believes that America needs to institute social programs like Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" programs, only "better stuctured and with wider authority...
Keppel was considered a leader in education reform both as U.S. Commissioner of Education under Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1962 to 1966, and as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from...
...York Democrat is a former Harvard professor with a knack for stirring up controversy. As Assistant Secretary in Lyndon Johnson's Labor Department, he kicked up a fuss by issuing a hotly disputed report on female- headed black families. Five years later, as Richard Nixon's adviser on domestic policy, he urged "benign neglect" on racial issues, meaning that the Administration should let racial controversy cool before launching new civil rights initiatives. In the case of Social Security, Moynihan admits that he was out to attract notice through the political equivalent of hitting Congress over the head with...
...sent it into battle." But Bush can surprise, especially when he remembers that nothing makes Americans feel better than some good old-fashioned Democratic sweet talk. Last year it was a kinder, gentler Inaugural, last week a State of the Union address that could have been delivered by Lyndon Johnson...
While the collapse of communism made for some great visuals in '89, it is worth remembering that the third industrial revolution can cut both ways, complicating the lives of American Presidents as well as communist leaders. To the fury of Lyndon Johnson, TV brought the Viet Nam War home to the U.S. and hastened its humiliating end. Some former advisers to Ronald Reagan suspect he might have stuck by Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 had it not been for the extensive and sympathetic coverage of People Power...