What Kind of Man Are You, President Obama -- Another LBJ?Thomas Farrell
What is LBJ most famous for? What characteristics made Abraham Lincoln a great leader? What were the key issues of the 1912 presidential election? What problem did President Jefferson have about purchasing the Louisiana Territory? What important things did Abraham Lincoln do as president? What is ...
Biden told the group that he assumes “Netanyahu knows and the Israelis know my position” on the matter. “I’ve made clear that I’m going to oppose annexation as president,” he said. “A two-state solution is the only way to ensure Israel’s long-term security while sustaining its...
These are accomplishments, one of which would have made him probably a great president. Plus, the modesty and the love of democracy and the self-restraint, and I hate to use that word these days, his honesty. This was, even at the time, it was evident that he was a great man, but...
a pure heart to "will one thing." So below I've fashioned my Political CV. Forget about Dem or GOP or Libertarian scripts. I've listed things that I did in large part "for the public good." For example, things I'm not including are Senior Class President (mix of duties and ...
support in advance), with his plan to withdraw US personnel from Viet Nam (he’d signed the order before the assassination only to have LBJ tear that up), and he write that Operation Mockingbird dealt with a few US journalists whereas I’d read in other books that it was a widespread ...
What precedent did George Washington set by refusing to run for the presidency a third time? How did Grover Cleveland avoid military service? Why did LBJ drop out of the 1968 presidential election? What was president James K. Polk's platform issue? What made Martin Van Buren...
president on the Progressive Party ticket, the party organization which was dominated by actual communists and speeches written for Henry Wallace had communist authorship and they basically spouted Moscow’s position. However, the mood in Idaho was quite Republican and the GOP had a clean sweep of...
Giving new meaning to the age-old expression "waste not, want not," Costco has found a couple of novel ways to keep surplus food out of landfills and put it to good use. First, the company sendsexcess produceto farms, where it is repurposed as nutritious feed for livestock. Secondly, ...
Vance even cast his evolution on Trump as a selling point. “It’s actually important to be able, again, to admit that you’re wrong. and I believe I can make a good case to the American people – people who may have been skeptical of the president back in 2016. Who ...