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...Republicans used to laugh at Bill Clinton because there were no consequences in the Clinton White House for Democrats who defected. Lyndon Johnson would have hammered those Benedict Arnolds, the Republicans would say. So that's how the Bush White House resolved to treat anyone who didn't adhere to the party line...
...when Lyndon Johnson was in the first grade in the Hill Country of Texas, he was asked to read a poem to his classmates and their parents. The poem he chose was "I'd Rather Be Mama...
...Harry Truman's decision to subsidize the French in their futile effort to retrieve their Asian colony. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy deepened our involvement, reiterating the "domino theory," the dubious notion that the collapse of Vietnam would spark a global wave of communist triumphs. As he escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess...
...Harry Truman's decision to subsidize the French in their futile effort to retrieve their Asian colony. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy deepened our involvement, reiterating the "domino theory," the dubious notion that the collapse of Vietnam would spark a global wave of communist triumphs. As he escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess...
...Roosevelt-Truman difference, even when I was five. How different Eisenhower was from Truman. When Ike left in 1961, he seemed a gray old man and there was JFK, young and bright and handsome and - as it seemed that first spring, after the Bay of Pigs - dangerously inexperienced. Lyndon Johnson, flying home from Dallas, transformed Washington overnight... Nixon after Johnson... Ford after Nixon, Carter after Ford, Reagan after Carter, and so on, to Bush...