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...since Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy in the 1960s had any Democrat of national stature addressed the subject with the focus that Edwards gave it. He helped start a poverty center at the University of North Carolina, wrote a book about it and, when the time came to launch his next presidential campaign, chose hurricane-ravaged New Orleans as the place to do so. There are differences in style and substance this time around. In his newer, more populist incarnation, Edwards 2.0 has hammered away not only at President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and the special...
...pastor, Graham was closest to Lyndon Johnson, who called him to the White House more than 20 times and relied on him heavily for pastoral comfort. During one visit to the Johnson ranch, he asked Graham to preach at his funeral and more or less told him what he wanted to say. Later, when LBJ was dying, he reminded his family where he wanted to be buried and pointed out the spot near his burial site where he wanted Graham to stand and give the final blessing...
...their songs as well. The test program is being run under the helm of Pyramid Radio Inc., a Boston-based media corporation that owns 16 radio stations. The non-music updates will come in 30- and 60-second segments between songs. T-Radio has already enlisted contributors such as Lyndon Byers, a former Boston Bruin, Lenny Clarke, a Boston television actor and comedian, and Joyce Kulhawik of WBZ-TV4. The MBTA is working with Emerson College students to gather listener feedback. Riders can also post comments at MBTA.com. If the trial run proves successful, riders can look forward...
...think the President couldn't have picked a worse fight with which to prove his credentials. But regardless of the immediate political cost over a possible veto of SCHIP, these are fights the President welcomes in his last 16 months in office. After the largest expansion of government since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society four decades ago, he is bending over backward to show committed budget hawks that he is really one of them. Earlier this week the White House went so far as to say that the President was making a stand on SCHIP because it was a "philosophic...
Sometimes the desire for a job makes a politician see the light. For the first two decades of his career, Lyndon Johnson was a New Deal liberal, with white Southern views on race (he called Harry Truman's early efforts on civil rights "a farce and a sham"). This combination made him a popular Texas Congressman and Senator, but he also wanted to be President. After a stumbling run as Texas' favorite son in 1956, he realized that his ambitions required him to change his profile on civil rights. The next year, after epic wheeling and dealing as Senate majority...