Summary
Lyndon Baines Johnson, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States, serving from 1963-1969. Johnson (Dem) became president after the assassination of President Kennedy.
After completing Kennedy's term, he was elected President in his own right in a landslide victory in the 1964.
After completing Kennedy's term, he was elected President in his own right in a landslide victory in the 1964.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States, serving from 1963-1969. Johnson (Dem) became president after the assassination of President Kennedy.
After completing Kennedy's term, he was elected President in his own right in a landslide victory in the 1964.
After completing Kennedy's term, he was elected President in his own right in a landslide victory in the 1964.
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Surge focus is a losing strategy for McCain
"Senator Obama didn't support the surge, wanted to pull out, said that it would fail. I supported it when it was the toughest thing to do. I believe that my record on national security and keeping this country safe is there. And the American people will...Tags: Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Guerrilla Activity, Interior Policy, Government
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Questioning McCain's advisor
Steven Calabresi's commentary in the July 22 Tribune has convinced me to look closer at John McCain's candidacy for president ("Too young for the No. 1 job?"). Calabresi has drawn serious conclusions by looking at a few isolated facts and subjected...Tags: Jimmy Carter, John McCain, Richard Nixon, The White House, Government
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Wakeup Call - July 21, 2008
FATHER'S DISAPPOINTMENT Lyndon Johnson was president when Joe Paterno, nearly 40, became head football coach at Penn State. NASA hadn't reached the moon yet. Most television sets were black and white. Four decades later, Paterno, now 81, is still...Tags: Penn State Nittany Lions, Franco Harris, Roger Federer, Joe Paterno, NASA
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Memorable vice-presidential running mates
Geographic balance John F. Kennedy, scion of a rich Massachusetts family, chose good ol' boy Lyndon Johnson, Senate majority leader from Texas, to help win the South in 1960. Troublesome selection After George McGovern selected Thomas...Tags: Health Treatments, Walter Mondale, John F. Kennedy, Therapies, Al Gore
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Is Obama too vain?
The Swampby Frank James Let's agree that anyone who runs for president of the U.S. must, by definition, have an ego that vastly outstrips of that of most other mortals. To see oneself as the potential heir to an office once......Tags: Washington Post Company, Government, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Political Candidates
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George B. Hartzog Jr., 88; former Park Service director led expansion of nation's wildlife refuges, historic sites
Washington PostGeorge B. Hartzog Jr., a former director of the National Park Service who led an unprecedented expansion of the nation's system of parks, wildlife refuges and historic sites and who helped secure passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966,...Tags: Washington Monument, Washington Post Company, Government, Tourism and Leisure, History
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Could it be...Joe Biden?
The SwampBiden waits for an introduction before giving a speech at the Center for American Progress on May 20 in Washington. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) by Naftali Bendavid On the one hand, let's all concede that the quadrennial veepstakes ritual--the........Tags: Government, John F. Kennedy, Rudy Giuliani, Political Candidates, Elections
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Mailer and mayhem
Chicago Tribune criticDon't skim. You'll be tempted to do just that, of course, because his sentences tend to stretch out sinuously like cats in the sun, and because a culture more at home with the rhythms of blogs—quick hits, short takes, lists and nuggets—than...Tags: Government, Elections, Norman Mailer, Health and Safety at School, Henry Holt
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The spirit of America's independence lives on today
saulfriedman@comcast.netWe have a new reason to celebrate this Independence Day. For if you take the long view of history, as I do, you could say that the events on another Fourth of July, in 1863, saved the America that was envisioned by the founders and made possible in...Tags: Melville, Laws, Parties and Movements, Abraham Lincoln, Government
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Un ajuste que no favorece a cubanos
Especial para El SentinelHay que modificar la ley. Por casi cinco décadas. los cubanos han sido los privilegiados. Han podido entrar y quedarse en Estados Unidos con el beneplácito de este país. Cuba es un país donde un despiadado régimen marxista ha gobernado por casi 50...Tags: Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton
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Jul 21, 2008
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Jul 21, 2008
|Blog| Chicago Tribune
Jul 14, 2008
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|Blog| Chicago Tribune
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|Column| Chicago Tribune
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|Column| Newsday
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|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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