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...scholars' exchange program two years later when he reached the Senate. Independent by nature, he cast the lone vote against funding Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist investigation in 1954 and traded blows on foreign policy with every President from Truman to Nixon, though he reserved his greatest criticism for Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War. The televised hearings he led in 1966 and 1967 as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee helped turn popular opinion against the war and endeared him to activists like the young Bill Clinton, who worked on his staff. Fulbright wasn't always a hero...
...1960s, though, the persistence of prosperity finally became too blatant to ignore, and one prominent economist proclaimed that we had one foot through the door of a Golden Age. Recessions, if any, would be short and mild; John Maynard Keynes had shown us how to stop them. Lyndon Johnson never doubted that a growing economy would generate enough revenues to finance wars against communists in Vietnam and poverty at home-simultaneously. Civil-rights crusaders never considered the possibility that blacks would be educated and trained for good jobs that would fail to appear. Even hippies assumed they could drop...
...definition, revolutions revolt against something. Newt's target is the "current welfare state," which owes its shape to Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Thirty years ago to the day of Gingrich's speech last week, L.B.J. urged Congress to pass Medicare, one of the many programs he promised would "eliminate poverty from the land." They haven't, of course, and that's what spurs the G.O.P. critique. Between 1965 and 1992, the gross national product grew 53.2%. Yet 38 million Americans (including 14.6 million children, or 1 of every 5 kids) still live in poverty -- a higher percentage...
After all, I thought, Lyndon Johnson was able to make it through a nationally televised speech declining a second term as president of the United States without bawling. And though it's true that Hanselman is a sensitive '90s man--and sensitive '90s men are wont to shed a tear in public now and then--it's also true that the council presidency isn't quite as big a deal as the presidency of the United States. Hanselman's unabashed display of vulnerability, I thought, was nothing but a cheap publicity stunt...
Griswold also served on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under Presidents John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson...