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Opinion: The History Lesson Jill Biden Must Read: How Lady Bird Johnson Got LBJ to Step Aside
s presidency has been compared to Lyndon Baines Johnson’s for its highly significant reshaping of domestic policy. But here’s another comparison which has not been embraced—and ...
The Daily Beast via Yahoo
14 hours ago
Opinion: Why Jill Biden won’t urge the President to end his reelection bid
There’s just one person in Joe Biden’s orbit who can convince him to not to run in 2024, writes Kate Andersen Brower, who explores what Jill Biden is likely to do.
CNN via Yahoo
7 days ago
6 days ago · By the spring of 1968, Johnson could see that the divisions over Vietnam had made further domestic accomplishments unlikely. His wife, Lady Bird, helped him to begin imagining another course.
13 hours ago · When LBJ grudgingly accepted the vice-presidential slot on JFK’s 1960 ticket, he was Senate majority leader; the role was a demotion by any light. For him, it was “like trying to swallow a nettle: hurt, sticky, spiny,” in Lady Bird’s account, as detailed in my book, Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight. But as second lady, while her ...
Jun 26, 2024 · We are pleased to introduce Wilderness and Wildflowers: The Legacy of Lady Bird Johnson, an exhibition created by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to honor the former first lady and celebrate the centennial year of her birth.
Jun 24, 2024 · "Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of 'Lady Bird Johnson: an oral history', an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and ...
23 hours ago · The parallels between Jill Biden and Lady Bird Johnson are clear: both were senator’s wives and second ladies before entering the East Wing; both faced roiling crises—civil rights, COVID, Jan. 6, Israel—tearing at America’s social fabric. Now, like Lady Bird, Jill must help her husband make the ultimate choice: to run or not to run for ...
Jun 19, 2024 · Former Second Lady and First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson was born into wealth, had a charismatic personality, was a shrewd business person, and a environmental s...
1 day ago · Lyndon Baines Johnson ( / ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz /; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
