Lyndon Johnson News
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President Barack Obama says Social Security and Medicare fulfill “the guarantee of a secure retirement,” providing Americans benefits they have earned through a working lifetime of contributions.
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Alex Steele begins his pitch on how to turn Texas into a Democratic state like any good politician, with the story of how he got to this place.
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There is a classic “Doonesbury” cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other’s politics for everything that’s wrong in Southeast Asia, when they finally reach the Cambodian genocide.
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President Barack Obama is pressing Republicans to stop obstructing federal judicial nominees, protesting the delays in private conversations with senators and in public declarations by administration officials.
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U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson is expected to announce today that he will become the fifth Democrat in the chamber to retire after the 2014 election, a Senate Democratic aide said.
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The first man on the moon, the first U.S. woman in space and the first black Federal Reserve member were among the notable deaths in 2012.
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Next week marks a much-overlooked anniversary: It will be 50 years since Lee Harvey Oswald, under the name A. Hidell, purchased the Italian surplus Carcano M91/38 rifle with which he would eight months later assassinate U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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“The Passage of Power,” the fourth volume of Robert Caro’s acclaimed life of Lyndon Johnson, is among the finalists for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards. Two of the earlier volumes have won the award.
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Twice in less than two years, President Barack Obama and U.S. House Speaker John Boehner failed to negotiate a sweeping solution to the nation’s financial challenges. That may not be such a bad thing.
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