Lyndon B. Johnson News
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John Lewis sees two issues -- civil rights and gay marriage -- through one lens.
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In a season of depressing budget news, the worst may have been that a majority of U.S. House Democrats signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to oppose any benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlements. That’s the last thing we need.
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President John F. Kennedy knew many things -- literature, history, the arts. His vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, knew one thing: power.
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Japanese automakers are about to make another run at challenging Detroit’s dominance in trucks, and they will bang head-on into John Lucchese.
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AT&T Inc. contributed $3.1 million to President Barack Obama’s inaugural committee, according to a Senate filing.
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Andrew Brimmer, an economist who became the first black member of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board when President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him in 1966, has died. He was 86.
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The idea that Democrats are big spenders and bad for bonds while Republicans are deficit hawks is being turned on its head in the $10.8 trillion market for U.S. Treasury securities.
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In 2008, Barack Obama promised to change the way Washington works. In 2013, we might actually see that change. But it won’t be because of Obama. It will be because a critical mass of senators -- perhaps even including some Republicans -- decide enough is enough: It’s time to rein in the filibuster.
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Both the international monetary system and American fiscal policy began to change in the 1960s. The system developed at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944, fixed exchange rates to a dollar backed by gold. It worked successfully for years. But it couldn’t last forever.
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Xi Jinping, the man in line to be China’s next president, warned officials on a 2004 anti-graft conference call: “Rein in your spouses, children, relatives, friends and staff, and vow not to use power for personal gain.”
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