Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. It's that simple and that clean. It's all here in this Bill Moyers review of how Lyndon Johnson destroyed his presidency and himself and ended the lives of tens of thousands of young men by being too afraid of the right-wing barking crowd to step up and do the wise and strong thing, which was to say screw it -- there's no way to win,...
Brilliant at Breakfast (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
If you've been an American for more than 60 seconds, then you don't need me or anyone else to tell you what happened on November 22, 1963. It wasn't just the day Aldous Huxley died. Many, many Americans who were alive when President Kennedy was shot in Dallas have also since passed. Fewer and fewer Americans remain alive, people who were around and felt the jarring, world-shaking impact of however...
Welcome Back to Pottersville (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
If you've been an American for more than 60 seconds, then you don't need me or anyone else to tell you what happened on November 22, 1963. It wasn't just the day Aldous Huxley died. Many, many Americans who were alive when President Kennedy was shot in Dallas have also since passed. Fewer and fewer Americans remain alive, people who were around and felt the jarring, world-shaking impact of however...
The Sir Robert Bond Papers (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
From Friday’s New York Times , four views on the art of persuasion as practiced in the United States Capitol using the health reform bill as the centrepiece. There’s reference in the article to the Johnson Treatment. To get the full effect, you can find the famous 1957 series of four photographs of then-senator Lyndon Johnson at work, by NYT photographer George Tames. -srbp-
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | yesterday
The ill-starred John Kennedy issued numerous orders and had federal troops invade Mississippi. Lyndon Johnson pushed presidential power well beyond Kennedy, and Nixon stalwartly asserted yet more executive powers. … Popular wars or those too ancient to stir controversy may be mentioned, mostly as an arena for presidential heroics. The Mexican War squeaks by [...]
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
November 20, 2009 "Our country wonders this weekend what is on President Obama's mind. He is apparently, about to bring months of deliberation to a close and answer General Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan. When he finally announces how many, why, and at what cost, he will most likely have defined his presidency, for the consequences will be far-reaching and unpredictable....
BLANKNEY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | yesterday
On this day in 1963,The President of the United States was assassinated by a gunman in Dallas, Texas. John F Kennedy was hit in the head and throat when three shots were fired at his open-topped car. The presidential motorcade was travelling through the main business area of the city. Texas Governor John Connally was also seriously injured when one of the unknown sniper's bullets hit him in the back....
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama is back from Asia and his bow to the Japanese, his handshake with the tyrant from Myanmar and his difficult sessions with the Chinese. There sure has been a lot of talk about the president and his submissiveness in Asia. But though our historical memories are full of Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan, John Hay and the Open Door in China, and Lyndon Johnson and the open-ended war...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Cow Is Over The Fence Again by digby If you missed Bill Moyers' Journal last night, I urge you to find the time to watch it or at least read the transcript : With an eye on President Obama’s deliberations on whether to deploy more U.S. troops in addition to the 68,000 already in Afghanistan, Moyers presented a montage of recorded conversations and his personal memories of President Lyndon...
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obama says it: There’s a chance he won’t run in 2012 President Obama in China In an interview with CNN in China, President Obama opened the possibility to not running for re-election in 2012 — something that no president has done since Lyndon Johnson. Here’s what he said: “You know, if – if I feel like I’ve made the [...]
The Agonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our country wonders this weekend what is on President Obama's mind. He is apparently, about to bring months of deliberation to a close and answer General Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan. When he finally announces how many, why, and at what cost, he will most likely have defined his presidency, for the consequences will be far-reaching and unpredictable. As I read and listen...
The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bill Moyers, who was at the side of President Lyndon Johnson at the time when disastrous decisions were being made to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that was Vietnam, used his experience to speak Friday night to President Barack Obama about what could be an equally disastrous decision to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that is Afghanistan. "Our country wonders this weekend...
One Utah (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama is being besieged from all sides about his pending decision on what to do about an undeclared war. I don’t know why this should be his decision alone. If conservatives in congress still have ants in their pants for war, as they did when Lyndon Johnson was president, why don’t they summon the [...]
Pen and Sword (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
“It really boils down to one of two decisions, getting out or getting in.” --President Lyndon Johnson, speaking about Vietnam. “Soldiers came to school today,” announced the Kindergarten kid. "They only kill bad people. They don't kill good people." This is story comes to us by way of Jon Letman of Truthout. The Kindergarten kid was his son, who is five. Letman relates...
Scooter McGavin's 9th Green (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post will include blurbs on Chuck , Christmas in Rockefeller Center , WWII in HD , The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination , When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs , Caprica , and Delta Blues . - I was never a fan of the idea of Chuck returning before the Olympics and it looks like NBC will be fumbling...
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cummar | 07/27/2009
Plot: The account follows the animation of little I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his engagement with the adore of his animation Jenny. The gauze chronicles his contingent experiences with some of the most meaningful mankind and events in America from the distend 1950's in and out of the 1970's counting a engagement with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, belligerent in Vietnam, etc....
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