Unfortunately, however, the USdidinflate its currency, in large part to finance the escalating costs of the Vietnam War and LBJ’s Great Society. This is one reason, Newman explains, that the US depleted roughly 55 percent of its gold stock from the 1950s to 1971. In that year—1971—f...
What two Cabinet-level departments were created in LBJ's Great Society? What did Chief Joseph want from the federal government? What was the Kennedy administration? Who was Grover Cleveland's vice president? Who was in office before James K. Polk?
How was Reagan's economic plan different from LBJ's Great Society? What groups backed Ronald Reagan ahead of the 1980 presidential election? Who did Ronald Reagan run against for Governor of California? What awards did Ronald Reagan win?
who believe that having a job is an entitlement, rather than a privilege. They often complain about the work they have (if working), opine the lack of "real lawyer" jobs available in the market, and are critical of the long hours and inadequate pay found at most small firms...
The day of celebration of the independence of our great country is once again at hand… for those of us who can remember what it’s all about, that is. As former Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan, William Bennett, has commented, this country is on the verge of a national amnesi...
The author asserts that LBJ’s Great Society also lost the US surplus by bringing more goods into the country rather than exporting。 The great irony is that the US succeeded in doing something very similar to what the USSR was trying to do: asert global control with a centrally planned ...
The Oval Office is a room filled with ghosts: ghosts of figures both noble and ignoble, and the shades of decisions both great and disastrous. If there was one ghost President Obama wanted at his shoulder during his recent speech on the oil spill, it was that of President Franklin Delano ...
TIP:Liberalism, the ideology of liberty and equality, is the opposition philosophy to conservatism. From this frame of reference, as an opposition philosophy, conservatism is all about pushing back against modernization and trying to make things “Great Again.” Or in other terms, it is a push...
Few people today realize or remember, but a single man, Lyndon Baines Johnson, “LBJ”, is primarily responsible for both starting and ending “The Space Race”. While the Soviets could get all the intelligence they wanted from Communist agents in America’s open society, the US had a despe...
although Church was sure to include a proviso that required such juries not be segregated. He would prove himself in the Senate as a solid liberal, strongly supporting most New Frontier and Great Society programs, such as the Economic Opportunity Act, Medicare, Mass Transit legislation, and feder...