Showing posts with label LBJ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LBJ. Show all posts
Sunday, August 03, 2014

Future President LBJ a/k/a "Landslide Lyndon" campaigning for the Senate by helicopter in 1948

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By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed. LBJ won the 1948 Senate primary  by 87 votes, which led to his nickname "Landslide Lyndon."...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

President Lyndon Johnson: LBJ as a boy, circa 1915

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By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed. This is a fascinating photo of LB J as a youth.  As a wise man once said, "the child is the ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

LBJ drives his car into a lake

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By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed. LBJ driving his amphibious car.  He liked to scare visitors to his ranch by driving them downhill in...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

LBJ shows his gall bladder surgery scars at an impromptu press conference

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By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed. In 1965, LBJ was released from the hospital after gall bladder and kidney stone surgery.  LBJ being ...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

Jackie Robinson's telegram to President Lyndon Johnson

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Thanks to reader Dean Ericksen for passing this along... ---o0o---
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

LBJ orders trousers from Joe Haggar (with audio)

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By Jack Brummet, Presidents Editor It's not The Johnson Treatment exactly, but LBJ puts the Haggars through their paces! It's cl...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

ATIT Reheated - The Johnson Treatment: LBJ's version of persuasion and coercion, with photos and links to 15 previous stories on LBJ and "The Johnson Treatment"

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by Jack Brummet, P residents Editor   Here, LBJ, the Majority Leader, puts the strong-arm on Theodore Green, a 90 year old Senator ...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Johnson Treatment: LBJ appoints Richard Russell to the Warren Commission before telling him

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By Jack Brummet, President's Editor President Johnson with Senator Russell In November, 1963, LBJ appointed Supreme Court Chief ...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Philip Levine on BHO, and The Presidency

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By Jack Brummet, Poetry Editor I've always liked Philip Levine's poetry , and his politics.  At 83, he is our new Poet Laureate. ...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

1972: Facing the Selective Service System, and The Draft

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By Jack Brummet Unexplained Phenomena Editor It's hard to remember now what we faced in the late 60's and early 70's, when...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Draft Resistance pamphlet from Seattle in the late 1960's

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By Jack Brummet Seattle History Correspondent I worked part time as a draft counselor in a community center in 1970-72.  We worked mostl...
Thursday, May 05, 2011

Send The President a joint -- it just might chill him down?

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By Jack Brummet, Social Mores Editor, with research by Mona Goldwater. Wingnut and GOP affairs editor As a long-time scholar of Preside...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Photograph: Lyndon Johnson and S.O.D. Robert McNamara have an "Oh S**t!" moment

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By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor Lyndon Johnson and S.O.D. Robert McNamara have an "Oh S**t!" moment.  They had a lot ...
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Saturday, February 05, 2011

The Johnson Treatment: LBJ's version of persuasion and coercion, with photos and links to 15 previous stories on LBJ and "The Johnson Treatment"

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by Jack Brummet Presidents Editor   Here, LBJ, the Majority Leader, puts the strong-arm on Theodore Green, a 90 year old Senator T he Johns...
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Friday, December 26, 2008

Farewell to Eartha Kitt & Eartha stands up to Lyndon Johnson on his own turf

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click to enlarge Christmas Day is normally a quiet day in the "blogosphere." I just noticed, however, that over a thousand people...
Monday, November 03, 2008

POTUS 36 - President Lyndon B. Johnson, originator of The Johnson Treatment

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click to enlarge LBJ I've written many times about Lyndon Johnson , the civil rights hero, and Lyndon Johnson, the paranoid and bellicos...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

President Lyndon Baines Johnson orders trousers from Joe Haggar

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Thanks to Bill Schneider for pointing this out. It's been a while since we've written anything about LBJ. It's not The Johnson...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Lady Bird Johnson, Austin hero missed and praised

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I know quite a bit about Lady Bird Johnson. I've read her diaries, and many books about her husband. I didn't realize how great her...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

The LBJ Museum and Library in Austin

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I took my second trip to the LBJ Library on the University of Texas campus yesterday. There were a lot of great exhibits as usual, and espe...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Three more photographs of LBJ

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click to enlarge these photographs ---o0o---