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This begins with our policy proposals. For example, the costs of education are becoming prohibitively high, and students have fewer resources available to them. When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Higher Education Act of 1965, he said, “A high school senior anywhere in this great land of ours can apply to any college or university in any one of the 50 states and not be turned away because their family is poor.” But soon, only the wealthiest will be able to afford college. President Bush cut funding for the Pell Grant program...
Rather, McNamara puts the blame on President Lyndon B. Johnson, a figure who does not come across flatteringly in Morris’ documentary. Morris unearthed audio archives for this film that present Johnson as a belligerent leader who was consumed by the domino theory (the image of dominoes falling across a map of southeast Asia recurs throughout the film) and was determined to win the conflict before it had even started...
...Georgetown, the moments of total loneliness on airport ramps and in strange motels when few people knew who Jack and Jackie really were, the dejected Kennedy who thought he was losing it all in West Virginia or Oregon, the hoopla of the convention and the moment when Jack asked Lyndon Johnson to take the vice-presidential nomination...
This isn't Lyndon Johnson's girdle...
DIED. WALTER WASHINGTON, 88, former mayor of Washington and first black chief executive of a major American city; in Washington. The great-grandson of a slave, he was appointed Washington's mayor by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967; eight years later, after the city won home rule, he became its first elected mayor in more than 100 years. He steered the capital through some of the nation's worst urban riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., organized a new municipal bureaucracy and gave the city a budget surplus...