While the Soviets could get all the intelligence they wanted from Communist agents in America’s open society, the US had a desperate need for intelligence about what was going on inside the USSR’s closed society. Most particularly, the US wanted to know how the Soviet nuclear and ICBM prog...
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...
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I've changed, if subtly, and in ways that trouble a friend here and there. But my thinking is pretty much the same as it was when I was in my 20s. As a "liberal", I never really trusted Big Labor. I've never liked the "politically correct" speech regimen many traditional liberals...
“Yet she was not alone. And she never would be. Because this was the moment that God Almighty broke into our fallen world in person,” he wrote, concluding, “To many of us, it is undoubtedly: The Greatest Story Ever Told.” For his lies, X slapped a brutal community note on him...
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 ...
What number president was Lyndon B. Johnson? Lyndon Johnson: Lyndon Johnson (1908 - 1973) was an American politician who is best known for serving as president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson, who was elected vice president under John F. Kennedy, became president when Kenne...
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 ...
Also, as awriting teacher, it’s my duty to give you a free writing lesson. Everything in an essay should logically follow what came before it, and lead into what’s coming after it. Finding a linear order for these ideas was the hardest part about writing this piece. But because I ...
The state of Washington is not known as a Republican much a less conservative place, but 1946 was an exception. That year was the first time the GOP won control of both the House and the Senate since 1928, and numerous people were elected who in other circumstances would not have likely ...