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Lyndon B. Johnson Loved This Drink So Much That He Had A Delivery Button On His Desk For It
It's safe to say that being the President of the United States comes with some pretty cool perks. Sure, you have the weight of the entire world resting on your shoulders, and the fact that four or ...
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73 years ago, LBJ saved a Chinese American family in Dallas from deportation
As the story goes, an up-and-coming senator from Texas named Lyndon B. Johnson wrote a letter to INS and helped secure their parents’ stay in the country. In June, which marked the 73rd ...
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PHOTOS: LBJ saved this Chinese American family in Dallas from deportation
An up-and-coming senator from Texas named Lyndon B. Johnson wrote a letter to the immigration and naturalization service and helped secure permission for a Dallas family to stay in the U.S. June ...
Here is what happened when President Johnson bypassed a governor to deploy the National Guard.
Before Saturday, the last time a president sent Guard troops in to deal with civil unrest without cooperation from the ...
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The Food President Lyndon B. Johnson Loved Serving To Guests
As a senator, the guest list that graced his ... The Ultimate Ranking Of Popular Store-Bought Barbecue Sauces Like any Texan, Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, took barbecues ...
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LYNDON JOHNSON
1960: John Kennedy elected President of the United States on November 8, with Lyndon ... to Johnson's vice president, Hubert Humphrey. GEORGE MCGOVERN (b.1922): A Democratic U.S. Senator from ...
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Lyndon Johnson Knew That Part of Wielding Power Is Knowing When to Let It Go
Sixty years ago today, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed into law the Civil ... protest candidate Eugene McCarthy, a Minnesota senator. It began to look like he would either lose the ...
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The Free Speech Fairness Act would end a decades-old attack on speech
If that were not enough, he went on to call upon the pastors to be alert to “a campaign being waged against our fine Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson.” Johnson’s amendment lay fallow for the ...
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60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy Ad,” the Silence on Nuclear War Is Dangerous
Closing in on the Republican nomination for president, the Arizona senator suggested that ... between the nuclear superpowers that Lyndon Johnson and, eventually, Ronald Reagan attained during ...
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Nation: HOW THE STATES WILL GO
Maine (4): The Jenkins case could still hurt Johnson. But Lyndon holds a meager lead, thanks to popular Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie’s reelection campaign and Republican Senator Margaret ...
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Nation: Lyndon Johnson
Vice President Johnson was riding two cars behind the Kennedys with Lady Bird, Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough ... arrived, and Lyndon recalled: “A few minutes later Mrs. Kennedy and the ...