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...tell you that the executive is constitutionally the weakest branch of government. But a rhetorically adept president can leverage public support to drive through groundbreaking bills that are too risky for individual legislators to try and pass on their own. In this respect, an Obama presidency might better mirror Lyndon Johnson’s role in pushing through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than the anemic gestures towards civil rights made by the Kennedy White House. Senator Obama’s ability to rally the public troops—call it inspiration, charisma, or even “change...
...TIME:Hillary Clinton made the point that it took Lyndon B. Johnson to implement some landmark civil rights laws. Looking back, will we credit, say, George W. Bush similarly, for appointing more women to senior and cabinet-level jobs than any of his predecessors...
...declares, “We love to suck you dry,” while a Motown female troupe relays that this is, in fact, the “Amerykahn promise.” Badu here establishes the unsettling tone that continues throughout. She simultaneously evokes and subverts President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 speech “The American Promise.” In Badu’s opinion, its promise of dignity for all men remains unfulfilled. The rest of the album continues in this vein. “New Amerykah” discusses everything from racial...
...that sort of thing. But bear down even slightly, and the notion of experience is liable to crack and run all over. If knowing the system is so useful, then second-term presidencies should be more successful than first-term. Instead, many Presidents lose effectiveness as they go along. Lyndon Johnson, for example: his experience as a master legislator no doubt helped as he steered his historic civil rights and welfare agenda to passage. By the end of two years as President, however, "he was out of gas," recalls Johnson aide Harry McPherson. The longer Johnson was in the Oval...
...that a Democratic president will take that risk is if people concerned with LGBT issues give him or her a reason to. It’s simply too much to ask of politicians to “just do it.” Although Senator Clinton might disagree, Lyndon Johnson did not step in front of a segregationist truck for the Civil Rights Act in 1964; he jumped on a much bigger truck, driven by the people of the Civil Rights Movement, that was barreling through its opposition...