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...First Lady will doubtless be best remembered for her wide-ranging efforts to beautify the U.S. While her anti-billboard campaign fizzled, her tree plantings and her continual calls for more parks and better playgrounds have made many Americans more thoughtful about the quality of their environment. Lyndon Johnson once complained, tongue in cheek: "Sometimes I'm interrupted in my nap by Lady Bird and Laurance Rockefeller and about 80 others in the next room talking about flowers and roadside picnic tables...
...father's footsteps as a missionary in Asia. At Wheaton College in Illinois, she fell in love with Graham. As her Southern Baptist husband's most trusted adviser, Ruth charmed world leaders and celebrities, grounded Billy when politics tempted him (once kicking him under the table after Lyndon Johnson asked his advice on a running mate), remained a steadfast Presbyterian despite pressure from Billy's powerful friends and wrote more than a dozen books...
...NEVER button--a reference to his view on black-voter registration--the beefy, sadistic former Alabama sheriff Jim Clark ironically galvanized the civil rights movement. After a stunning televised 1965 confrontation in Selma in which Clark joined in beating and teargassing peaceful protesters, public opinion shifted. "Bloody Sunday," which Lyndon Johnson called "an American tragedy," is widely believed to have expedited the President's signing of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Clark...
...across the left-right divide,” he said. “This is another important reminder that there is no simple identification between concern for the environment and being on the left.” After his talk, Florenz fielded questions from a young supporter of activist Lyndon LaRouche, an instructor from Boston University, and graduate students from MIT and the Kennedy School of Government. Questions ranged from the possibility that the climate crisis alarm is a hoax, to a query about the environmental impact of the higher speed limits in Germany, to the issue...
Colleges and universities have seen tuition and fees outpace yearly inflation since the inception of the Guaranteed Student Loan program by the Johnson administration in 1965. Yet what President Lyndon B. Johnson intended as a supplement to college funding—loans— has now become the main course...