An assassin's bullet has thrust upon me the awesome burden of the presidency. And in this critical moment, it is our duty, yours and mine, as the government of the United States, to do away with uncertainty and doubt and delay, and to show that we are capable of decisive action; that...
Johnson succeeded the presidency after John F. Kennedy's assassination he spoke of his vision of a Great Society in America. This Great Society included "an end to poverty and racial injustice," and also was intended to turn America into a place where kids can enhance their mind, broaden ...
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful...
Lyndon B. Johnson, in the Navy before his presidency, circa 1940s. Johnson was assigned to the Wabash Cannonball, a B-26 piloted by Lt. Willis G. Bench. He met the crew and checked out the plane, but then decided that he needed to relieve himself before takeoff. When he got back ...
For almost forty years, the verdict on Lyndon Johnsons presidency has been reduced to a handful of harsh words: tragedy, betrayal, lost opportunity. Initially, historians focused on the Vietnam War and how that conflict derailed liberali... G Herring - 《Historian》 被引量: 0发表: 2007年 ...
A tumultuous time for the presidency and the entire nation. We got people in this country living in unbelievable poverty. I know, I grew up like that in the Hill Country. I saw you last night, and I saw this character, you know, neck out, shoulders up. That was my version of LBJ....
Bobby knew all this, and kept a low profile until 1968, when against the odds of living, he decided to run for the Presidency himself. This was a brave move, as he knew, beyond doubt, that he would face the same fate as his brother. The rest is history. The same dark, coporate-...
So, in spring 1973, Rostow found himself in a curious position. As Johnson’s presidency ended in 1969 and at Johnson’s instruction Rostow had taken with him the White House file chronicling Nixon’s Vietnam gambit, consisting of scores of “secret” and “top secret” documents. Rostow ha...
Today’s conventional wisdom about Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency tends to see a liberalism that largely failed due to domestic policy overreach and the administration’s disastrous handling of the Vietnam War, and that set in in motion two generations of reactionary politics. While th...
t investigate me because it you do “the President believes that this is going to open up the whole Bay of Pigs thing again” – an obvious reference to the JFK assassination. Nixon’s aide Dean Burch said that when George Herbert Walker Bush heard that “He broke out in assholes and ...