Sierra Pettengill’s disquieting documentary uses only archival footage shot by the military and clips from period news coverage to explore this uncanny episode in the country’s history.
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The Russian hack was Trump’s Nixon moment
Newly discovered notes from an aide to Richard Nixon prove the former president connived with South Vietnam to win the 1968 presidential election.
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Trump may be a grandiose narcissist, but he’s no match for the Lyndon Johnson of All the Way
The HBO movie about a narcissist-in-chief reveals a lot about our potential new narcissist-in-chief.
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Fifty years after LBJ challenged the nation, the rights of African-Americans remain unfulfilled
“We’ve got to find a way to let Negroes get what most white folks already have,” Lyndon Johnson told his speechwriter in 1965.
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How The Lorax ended up in the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum
Here’s some more stuff you didn’t know about Dr. Seuss.
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Not just merely but most sincerely dead—the 60s
Most painful photo caption of the week: It’s on page 46 of Monday’s Sun-Times, under a picture illustrating the obituary of a Secret Service agent who’d been in Lyndon Johnson’s detail the day LBJ became president: “Thomas ‘Lem’ Johns (background right) stands behind President Lyndon B. Johnson and Johnson’s wife, Lady Bird, wearing a necklace, […]
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Pundits say presidents who won’t lead the country into war have trouble leading it anywhere
It’s in America’s nature to be at war because freedom always needs defending.
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Yes, there are black Republicans in Chicago
South-side GOP committeeman Darnell Macklin makes his case.
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What moved LBJ to target poverty?
Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty was more than a play for votes.
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The missing link in the War on Poverty
To better help the urban poor, government must address not just their deprivation but also their segregation.
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The solution to our federal budget woes
The deficit is in remission. That’s the good news.
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Fifty years after “I Have a Dream”: Time for a real War on Poverty
The richest nation on earth could afford to win a war on poverty, Lyndon Johnson asserted nearly 50 years ago.
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The speech Obama should give in Chicago
Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?
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The tenacity of school segregation
The roots of our racially separate schools are deep