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...immigration from South Asia, the big change came in 1965 when U.S. immigration statutes were liberalized to attract scientists and engineers to work in an American economy revved up by the Vietnam War. They fanned out to aircraft companies, NASA, military contractors and universities. Doctors were needed for President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society medical programs, and they were given preference too. Fewer than 2,000 people immigrated to the U.S. from India in the decade of the 1950s; in the '60s, 27,189 arrived; by the '80s, the number had jumped to a quarter-million. The immigrants often took...
...since 1974 and became a tenured professor there in 1982. He served as an associate dean at the school for eight years before becoming dean, a position he has held since 1992. He also earned a Ph.D. from the GSE in 1973. Before coming to Harvard, Murphy served in Lyndon B. Johnson's administration...
McAuliffe is the rare moneyman who has linked his personal life with his President. Not since Hollywood mogul Arthur Krim roamed the Lyndon Baines Johnson White House has one fund raiser done so much for one political family. He has raised more than $300 million for Clinton causes, including the presidential library ($75 million), Clinton's legal bills ($8 million), Hillary's Senate campaign ($5 million) and the President's millennium celebration ($17 million). When no one else came through to help the First Family buy a house in New York's Westchester County, McAuliffe interrupted a golf game with...
Robert Caro, the biographer of Lyndon Johnson, thinks the main difference is time. The historian has the time to dig deeper and sift more thoroughly than the journalist can. The historian's relative leisure allows for the correction of mistakes - including errors made by journalists in their haste. Caro was talking about this the other night at the New York Public Library. He spent years prowling around in Lyndon Johnson's early life, he said, only to discover that most of the lore on the subject was all wrong; LBJ had invented it. Caro began getting it right only when...
Protesters pointed out during Vietnam that the old men (Lyndon Johnson and the rest) made the decisions and the young men did the dying. Think of the advantage if they all - decision-makers and soldiers - belonged to the same generation...