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When I was a Senate Page boy long ago in the 1950s, my boss was Lyndon Johnson's young pet lizard, Bobby Baker. Senator Johnson would snap his fingers softly, and I would hustle to the cooler in the Democratic cloakroom to bring him a glass of White Rock sparkling water or dash down the marble back stairs to the Senate restaurant to fetch a dish of vanilla ice cream, which he ate at his desk on the Senate floor as he played his mighty legislative Wurlitzer...
...hobbled at the rear of the chamber, on crutches from his back operation. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, remembered now as a dark cloud shadowing America, could show, in private, an unexpected sweetness and charm. Always, front and center (first desk, middle aisle, the Democratic leader's spot) stood Lyndon Johnson, almost handsome then, in his 40s, leaner than history remembers him, narrow-eyed, his hair sleek with Stacomb, alert in a vaguely dangerous way--an impresario, a genius of nuances, a wolf in his prime...
...past year, a biography of John Adams, another about the Founding Fathers, two of Theodore Roosevelt, one of Harry Truman and the near completion of a series on Lyndon Baines Johnson have all drawn tremendous media attention to a genre long obscured by a desire to include everyone...
...recent litigation for black reparations is part of the larger movement to examine, reconcile and repair the past of America’s un-remedied injustices. This is not a black problem or a white problem, it is an American problem, and it demands an American solution. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “we seek not just equality as a right and theory, but equality as a fact and equality as a result.” If America continues to avoid compensating African-Americans for the injustices and social injuries that they have endured, and continue...
...Health care is always a leading concern to voters, so when times are flush, governors and legislators are happy to expand Medicaid with all the extra money in their coffers. It wasn't always this way: when Lyndon Johnson first proposed the concept, Medicaid was designed as limited health coverage for Americans on welfare. At that time, more than a third of Americans didn't have any form of health insurance. Medicaid was a welcome solution. But as health care costs skyrocketed over the last 15 years, Medicaid wasn't providing enough help. Many Americans who weren't on welfare...