Showing posts with label President Lyndon Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President Lyndon Johnson. 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 ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

LBJ gives The Johnson Treatment to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, in 1968.

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By Jack Brummet, 60's Ed. LBJ gives the Johnson Treatment to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, in 1968. Previous ATIT articles and photogr...
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...
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 ...
Monday, January 16, 2012

An uneasy, but productive partnership: Martin Luther King and LBJ

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Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson  had an uneasy partnership, with some mutual suspicion on both sides.  Nonetheless, they did...
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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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...