| 单词 | President Johnson |
| 例句 | I sat down at my desk, as humiliated as President Johnson would have been if he had lost to Bobby Kennedy. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He sat with a face as grim as President Johnson’s. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Stanton gave orders to rush military guards to the home of every member of the cabinet and to Vice President Johnson’s hotel. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z From the White House, President Johnson announced that he was determined to press for a powerful new voting rights law. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I feel like a hitchhiker caught in a hailstorm on a Texas highway,” President Johnson confided to his press secretary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But for President Johnson, it was a profound personal and political failure. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Instead of pictures of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and President Johnson, there was a picture of Huey Newton sitting in a big wicker chair with a rifle at his side. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Pete had disagreed, making his usual case for integration and support for President Johnson’s War on Poverty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Retaliation had been ordered, and President Johnson saw no reason to postpone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z President Johnson flew to upstate New York that morning to dedicate a new building at Syracuse University. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara were telling the world that the American destroyers had been on a routine patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the long flight back to Washington, D.C., he stood in the back of his windowless military airplane, arguing about the situation with Bob Komer, one of President Johnson’s aides on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z President Johnson’s approval rating shot up fourteen percentage points. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was imprisoned in Florida, but his sentence was commuted by President Johnson, partly for assistance during an outbreak of illness in the prison. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z President Johnson was saying that the United States was willing to stop its bombing if the North Vietnamese were ready to begin serious talks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And so before he sent in the paratroopers, President Johnson sent in Cyrus Vance to assess the situation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z President Johnson sat at the long wooden table in the White House Cabinet Room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And then, on top of that, we found out after the CBS Evening News that President Johnson wasn’t the only one giving up his job. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “In his life, President Johnson endured the vilification of those who sought to portray him as a man of war,” Nixon said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At 11:37, they saw President Johnson’s face on the television. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In 1869, President Johnson ordered that the bodies of the conspirators be given to their families for reburial. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The White House press officer alerted television networks that President Johnson wanted air time that night to make an important statement on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the days to follow, newly sworn-in President Johnson left it to Stanton to bring Lincoln's killer and his accomplices to justice. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In late December, President Johnson and his top advisors sat around the table in the White House Cabinet Room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I seemed to see President Johnson’s sagging face through the rest of the news. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z President Johnson watches all three nightly news broadcasts at the same time in the Oval Office, 1967. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Some had misgivings about handing President Johnson what was practically a declaration of war, especially in such a hurry, and with such a vague idea of where things might lead. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The troops had been dispatched by President Johnson after Governor Wallace had denounced the marchers as “Communist-trained agitators” and insisted that Alabama could not afford to pay state troopers to protect them. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z To President Johnson, all three options looked lousy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z What had happened: late Monday night, President Johnson, finally giving in to Governor Romney’s request, had ordered in federal troops. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Later, when Vice President Johnson arrived at the deathbed, he remained in the background and chose not to take charge. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Brew wrote a letter to President Johnson saying that if he wanted us to fight, he’d better send us some good televisions, and we all signed it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was unwilling to confront President Johnson. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z President Johnson faded in and out, lost in the blizzard. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z President Johnson used his imposing physical stature and outsized personality to intimidate others, 1965. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He had no idea whether Vice President Johnson was dead. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was President Johnson, who’d worked so steadily with King on civil rights. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The executive branch of the government—Vice President Johnson and the cabinet—had survived the night; no other assassinations had occurred. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A lot of VC were killed north of Saigon, and President Johnson was saying that the United States was ready to come to the peace table if the Communists were. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When Jerrie and Janey met with Vice President Johnson, he gave the women five minutes to speak before telling them that there was nothing he could do. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z President Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, visit injured servicemen who have returned from Vietnam for care at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, 1965. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6 in the ornate President’s Room of the Capitol as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and other civil rights leaders looked on. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z President Johnson tried to downplay the massive attack at a news conference on February 2, saying “a few bandits can do that in any city.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She was the first real Attendant, assigned to Martha Johnson, President Johnson's daughter. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “But if you make a commitment to jump off a building,” President Johnson said, “and you find out how high it is, you may withdraw the commitment.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On Friday, March 5, two days before the planned march from Selma to Montgomery, King met with President Johnson at the White House. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes before it was time to give his talk, President Johnson took his place at his desk. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Things cleared up enough to make out President Johnson taking his seat at a desk, people all around. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z While he was shaving, he remembered a few months earlier, President Johnson had shown him the hidden safe where he stashed top secret documents. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It was all about President Johnson trying to get a bill passed to help the urban poor, and then something about the Pueblo, which had been taken over by the North Koreans. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And just like President Johnson before him, Nixon hated to lose. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z President Johnson had secretly ordered more than two thousand bombing runs over Cambodia during his presidency. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z His room at the Kirkwood House was one floor above Vice President Johnson’s. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, President Johnson declared a Christmas ceasefire in Vietnam, and the bombs stopped dropping. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Valenti, a former aide to President Johnson, was the new president of the Motion Picture Association of America, the successor to the MPPDA. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z But from the day it opened, “Selma” was dogged by complaints about its historical accuracy, particularly its portrait of President Johnson as opposed to King’s Selma campaign and his voting-rights agitation generally. “The plain people who became powerful”: Appreciating MLK anew, between “Selma” & Selma 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Liberals, led by President Johnson, redoubled their efforts for reform. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z President Johnson gave CBS President Frank Stanton a tongue-lashing and suggested that Safer had "Communist ties" and had staged the entire story. Morley Safer Has Died 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Hearing bits of a speech by President Johnson, they ask, What on earth is a domino? Review | In Paul Yoon’s ‘Run Me to Earth,’ three orphans struggle to survive in the deadliest place on earth 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It may be diverting, even important, to consider how Ava DuVernay’s portrayal of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Johnson did or didn’t hew to the historical record in “Selma.” After 100 years, we still don’t know how to actually watch a movie 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z On Aug. 6, 1965, even though he realized he could never do as much for disenfranchised people of color as the Trump family would, President Johnson still signed the Voting Rights Act into law. Style Invitational Week 1403: Who was that masked man? 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z She worked directly with President Johnson in his last year in office and later assisted him with his memoirs. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z And sure enough, below a note about theaters being closed and a warning to watch the Canadian border for the assassins, is a large headline: “Inauguration of Vice President Johnson as PRESIDENT.” Newspaper exhibition follows the day of Lincoln’s death, edition by edition 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Visitors are told that a United States destroyer has been attacked by North Vietnam and are asked, “Should President Johnson retaliate?” Critic’s Notebook: At the LBJ Presidential Library, Giving Nuance to History 2014-04-08T22:44:54Z They may have hesitated to do so because they would have had to put the entire command structure from President Johnson on down in the witness chair. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The events of the Vietnam War and President Johnson’s bowing out of the 1968 election will have their own 50th anniversaries over the next few years. Bryan Cranston takes his L.B.J. to TV in ‘All the Way’ 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Under our own criteria, therefore, Orville Freeman, the secretary of agriculture under President Johnson, could acquire responsibility for war crimes in Vietnam. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z And what are the chances that this President Johnson avoids impeachment? With "Young Rock," is Dwayne Johnson starting his presidential campaign 10 years early? 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z President Johnson and his closest advisers, Robert S. McNamara, Walt W. Rostow and Dean Rusk, directed the unfolding of the conflict just as President Nixon and his senior advisers now do. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z There has been a controversy in the States regarding the depiction of President Johnson so I'll restrict my comments to that issue alone, as it's an issue we can be relatively objective about. Oscars: Selma writer tells his side 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Then, during a spot in 1964, President Johnson decided to address the country right in the middle of Sullivan's time slot. Jackie Mason's thorny career: Once a beacon for Jewish pride, the comedian later turned to bigotry 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z President Johnson’s impetuousness came to mind when a copy of this volume made its way to my kitchen table a few weeks ago. Books of The Times: ‘Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History,’ by Michael L. Gillette 2013-01-08T15:00:00Z “The Path to Power,” the first installment of Mr. Caro’s biography of President Johnson, was published in 1982, when Mr. O’Brien was a student at Harvard. Conan O’Brien’s Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z And sometimes it seems so polarized today that it would be difficult, even with somebody of President Johnson’s skill at moving legislation, to get the same things done. The Democratic Presidential Candidate Eager to Challenge Trump on Immigration 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z President Johnson’s reputation is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance. Bryan Cranston takes his L.B.J. to TV in ‘All the Way’ 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z That someone was President Johnson, with whom King would spend hours in conversations. From this Selma house, Martin Luther King made civil rights history 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Later that day, President Johnson announced a cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam. A Modest Encounter with Russell Baker 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z It was at this spot that King sat, watching as President Johnson gave the March 15, 1965, speech announcing the drafting of the Voting Rights Act. From this Selma house, Martin Luther King made civil rights history 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z "Selma" was caught up in a controversy in recent weeks over its portrayal of President Johnson, with some scholars and former aides saying the film shortchanged his pivotal support of civil rights. Oscars 2015: Diversity is the biggest nomination snub 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Their case captured the imagination of the American public, but was rejected by President Johnson. Mercury 13: the untold story of women testing for spaceflight in the 1960s 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z It was signed by President Johnson to designate a national day of mourning. A Thanksgiving Message in a 1963 Proclamation 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z In 1965, Moynihan, then serving as assistant secretary of labor, was asked by President Johnson to investigate the causes of black poverty. A Question of Theme 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The book, published by Random House, drew headlines for Mr. Farrell’s discovery of notes confirming Nixon’s meddling, during the 1968 presidential campaign, in President Johnson’s peace efforts in Vietnam. Nixon Biographer Wins American History Book Prize 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The film shows how crucial Dr King was to those marches and to the passing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act - legislation which President Johnson had thought could wait. Oscars: Selma writer tells his side 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z With racial tensions simmering following the passage of the Civil Rights Act, President Johnson sent his wife as his surrogate. Projects featuring Lady Bird Johnson’s voice offer new looks at the late first lady 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z It was ratified in 1967 in the wake of President Johnson ascending to the office upon the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. Biden’s age and frequent bumbling revive talk of invoking the 25th Amendment to replace him 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Kennedy would go on to strongly vie for the Democratic nomination after President Johnson’s stunning decision to stand aside and not seek reelection. Column: Reagan and Robert F. Kennedy did it. Will Newsom and DeSantis? 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z He joined President Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee in the mid-1960s, as the Apollo program was preparing to land astronauts on the moon in 1969. Lewis Branscomb, Champion of Science Across Fields, Dies at 96 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z “Every argument Dr. King gave, President Johnson’s answer was, ‘I agree with you, but I just don’t have the power.’“ Andrew Young was at Martin Luther King’s side throughout often violent struggle for civil rights 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The letter drew criticism from many on campus, including the Wellesley News editorial board, which wrote: “We disapprove of and entirely disagree with President Johnson’s email.” Wellesley College students vote to admit transgender men 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The editorial board at the student newspaper, The Wellesley News, wrote that “we disapprove of and entirely disagree with President Johnson’s email.” Wellesley students call for admission of trans men 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “President Nixon mourned the death of President Johnson, but not my family,” he said, according to the New York Times. Maurice J. Cullinane, D.C. police chief during hostage crisis, dies at 90 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z “President Johnson scorched the wallpaper in the Oval Office on what kind of way this was to run a country,” Roche wrote. Presidential papers have long been turning up in unexpected places 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z The resolution gave President Johnson the authority to use military force in Vietnam without asking Congress for a declaration of war. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z But following the growth of bureaucracy and government services during President Johnson’s Great Society in the mid-1960s, a particularly vocal movement began calling for a rollback of government services. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z “President Johnson’s response is part of a broader trend of Wellesley’s administration and the Board of Trustees intervening in student discourse, which sets a problematic precedent,” the editorial board said. Wellesley students call for admission of trans men 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z President Johnson feared the riots could help Goldwater win the November election. Racism, policing, politics and violence: How America in 2022 was shaped by 1964 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Robert McNamara eventually turned against the war, and he left his job as secretary of Defense in 1967 for the World Bank at President Johnson’s behest. Haunted by his father’s role in Vietnam, he turned to farming to grow a new legacy 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z This effort put them squarely at odds with President Johnson, who remained unwilling to compromise with Congress, setting the stage for a series of clashes. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And she was just finishing high school and on her way to college when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts a decade later. Roe vs. Wade is doomed. A veteran feminist wonders what's next 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Moderates assumed that President Johnson would support these steps as part of a minimal program to safeguard the results of the Civil War. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z President Johnson’s war on poverty included the Food Stamp Act to help poor people afford food. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “President Johnson asked him not to condemn too strongly the Johnson administration.” When Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, Nixon promised not to ‘embarrass’ LBJ 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z In August 1867, President Johnson removed Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had aligned himself with the Radical Republicans, without gaining Senate approval. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Committed to stopping the spread of communism, President Johnson escalated U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Together with the Memphis riot, it also belied President Johnson’s claim that southern conditions had returned to normal and existing governments would protect the rights of blacks and their supporters. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The war in Vietnam eroded President Johnson’s popularity, however. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This trend continued under President Johnson and was fully embraced by President Nixon, who centralized control in the White House and regularly declined to involve his Cabinet in key decisions. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z President Johnson quickly disappointed Radical Republicans when he rejected their idea that the federal government could provide voting rights for formerly enslaved people. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z It led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allowed President Johnson to start bombing raids on North Vietnam and greatly escalate US military involvement in the Vietnam War. False flags: What are they and when have they been used? 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z President Johnson immediately vetoed this bill and its successors, and just as quickly, Congress overrode him. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Later, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library found two letters Ferriero had written to President Eisenhower as a youngster, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library found one he had written to President Johnson. David S. Ferriero, archivist of the United States, is retiring 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z President Johnson’s violation of that law triggered his impeachment by a House bent on political revenge. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, President Johnson’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction in May 1865 provided sweeping “amnesty and pardon” to rebellious Southerners. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The 2021 official White House ornament - 41st in the series - honors President Johnson with its reproduction of a painting of the Blue Room tree the family had in December 1967. White House group’s annual Christmas ornament honors LBJ 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Northern anger boiled over when President Johnson began pardoning high-ranking Confederates by the hundreds and southern voters chose them for high offices. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The 2021 official White House ornament — 41st in the series — honors President Johnson with its reproduction of a painting of the Blue Room tree the family had in December 1967. White House group’s annual Christmas ornament honors LBJ 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z That law’s plain purpose was to prevent President Johnson from removing several top officers in his administration, in particular the secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z President Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and instead exhibited a stubbornness and confrontational approach that aggravated an already difficult situation. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Launched in 1965 under former President Johnson, Head Start was created to fund education and health services for children living in poverty in the form of a public preschool program. Biden’s $390 billion universal preschool plan based on troubled Head Start program 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Three weeks later, President Kennedy was assassinated, and the Vietnam issue fell to President Johnson. The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z In that post he helped Senator Humphrey broker a deal, at President Johnson’s behest, between segregated and integrated factions of delegates from Mississippi. Walter Mondale, Ex-Vice President and Champion of Liberal Politics, Dies at 93 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Biden is articulating a progressive vision that was probably last seen with President Johnson. Activist and doctor Gregg Gonsalves on how to heal America after Trump's COVID disaster 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z President Johnson called openly for the rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment, a move that drove a further wedge between him and congressional Republicans. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The increase, to $36.5 billion, would be the biggest for the Title I program since it was established under President Johnson more than half a century ago, administration officials said. Biden requests large boost in domestic spending for the next budget year 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z However, because Shedlick did not want to leave her post, she gained assistance from the highest of places in a waiver from President Johnson, her family said. Elizabeth Shedlick, nurse to two presidents, dies of covid-19 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z "I believe he earned that appointment; he deserves the appointment. He is best qualified by training and by very valuable service to the country," President Johnson said on June 13, 1967. Thurgood Marshall: What to know about the Supreme Court justice, civil rights icon 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z One soldier was “waiting to fire the gun which was to be the signal to the whole city that President Johnson had entered his carriage,” the New York Herald reported. This impeached, one-term president refused to go to his successor’s inauguration. Now Trump will do the same. 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z However, these efforts ran afoul of President Johnson. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “We have not had a CEA as focused on the role of fiscal policy and full employment since President Johnson,” Spriggs said in an email. Biden’s Economic Picks Suggest Focus on Workers and Income Equality 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z In 1963, President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. Today in History 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Two years after that, President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall: What to know about the Supreme Court justice, civil rights icon 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The big mistake occurred not in 1975 when American troops finally departed, but a decade earlier when President Johnson decided that it was incumbent upon the United States to Americanize the war. A good deed from the wicked witch? 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Congress renewed the bureau’s charter in 1866, but President Johnson, who steadfastly believed that the work of restoring the Union had been completed, vetoed the re- chartering. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “I was ushered in, and President Johnson looked me over. He looked at the socks, but didn’t mention them. I said, ‘Mr. President, it is my pleasure to be here. William C. Pryor, longtime judge in D.C. courts, dies at 88 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z An early mission in the game is labeled “Fracture Jaw,” itself a nod to a reported plan to bring nuclear weaponry into Vietnam — overruled in real life by President Johnson in 1968. Review: 'Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War': Bored in the USA 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Instructing her on that duty, President Johnson told her to “spend more imagination and less taxpayer money,” she later recalled. Bess Abell, White House social secretary during Johnson administration, dies at 87 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Gen. Eric Holder and former U.N. ambassador and mayor of Atlanta Andrew Young, who recounts his work with Martin Luther King Jr. to press President Johnson on the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Review: Chin up, voters. Stacey Abrams and democracy are on your side 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z President Johnson, who continued to insist that restoration of the United States had already been accomplished, vetoed the 1866 Civil Rights Act. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “I soon found myself in a period limousine, seated next to ‘President Johnson,’ for the rest of the night,” Steve wrote. Perspective | Movie motors: Four-wheeled actors set the scene in these D.C. films 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z In 1965, President Johnson famously used federal power to put the Alabama National Guard under control of the federal government in order to protect the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. Trump's federal intervention in cities sparks furor – but it's not unprecedented 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Continued attacks on blacks in the South, growing unrest in northern ghettos and the fact that mainstream leaders declined to break with President Johnson combined to strengthen SNCC’s separatist element. John Lewis, front-line civil rights leader and eminence of Capitol Hill, dies at 80 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Three months before his meeting with President Johnson, Feighan, the Ohio Democrat, appeared before an influential group called the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, which supported the 1924 quota system. The Surprising Origin of Our Modern Nation of Immigrants 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Predictably, President Johnson vetoed the Reconstruction Acts, viewing them as both unnecessary and unconstitutional. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Five months later, President Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965. Joseph Lowery, founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., has died 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z And President Johnson delivered his now-famous televised national plea to Congress: “It is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. “And we shall overcome.” Bloody Sunday remembered: civil rights marchers tell story of their iconic photos 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z President Johnson also praised the positive economic contributions of ordinary G.I.s, especially the millions lifted out of Great Depression poverty. The U.S. granted free tuition before, and it can do it again 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z On Christmas 1868, lame-duck President Johnson made the case moot by issuing a general pardon for all participants in the rebellion, including Davis. In 1868, the fate of Jefferson Davis’s neck swung on Andrew Johnson’s impeachment 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z The Radicals then dropped the impeachment effort, but the events had effectively silenced President Johnson, and Radical Republicans continued with their plan to reconstruct the South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on Aug. 6, 1965. US ratifies 15th Amendment: This Day in History 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z “Ms. Childs was present and heard President Johnson’s remarks.” Woman’s lawsuit seeks at least $15M from NAACP, former boss 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z "I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president," President Johnson said in an address to the nation. Why Iowa caucuses are 'first in the nation': Brit Hume explains it all 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z "Is the chief justice aware that in the impeachment trial of President Johnson, Chief Justice Chase, as presiding officer, cast tie-breaking votes on both March 31 and April 2, 1868?" Chief Justice John Roberts tells Schumer he won't break ties in impeachment trial 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z A similar panel was launched by President Johnson in 1965, which resulted in the creation of the 911 emergency call system and improved racial relations. Justice Department to unveil National Law Enforcement Commission 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z As Jeff Guo wrote in the Washington Post, President Johnson's "War on Poverty" was followed by a "War on Crime" that "would bulk up police forces with federal money and intensify patrols in urban areas." Moderate Democrats are celebrating MLK. He was disgusted by them 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Since 1968, when President Johnson expanded affirmative action policies to include women, white women have made far greater strides in professions and in college admissions than have people of colour. No room at the top: why are US boardrooms still so white? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z She’s a big hit with President Johnson, whom she charms into sending aid to England. Review: “The Crown” is back — and better than ever 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z President Johnson’s impeachment trial lasted just over two months. What a Trump impeachment trial might look like 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z She wept occasionally and accepted a few phone calls, one from President Johnson. AP Was There: Coretta Scott King mourns husband’s death 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z President Johnson saw that as an affront to the spirit of the U.S. system of government, and he continued to oppose Republican-led efforts to impose their will on the former Confederate states. Who was the first president to be impeached? New documentary on Andrew Johnson 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z With President Johnson, who saw two attempts to impeach him, the House voted on resolutions to investigate but there was no explicit authorisation, according to a New York Times fact check. Why won't Democrats vote to authorise impeachment? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z President Johnson discusses with three top advisers whether to expose Republican interference in the Vietnam peace process. Trump’s bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Two settlement attempts by President Johnson’s White House staff failed. Newsletter: Today: What two rallies tell us about the 2020 race 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Two settlement attempts by President Johnson’s White House staff failed. From the Archives: 1966 airline strike over 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z In 1966, two years after serving as U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, President Johnson nominated Real as a judge for the Central District that September. Manuel L. Real, judge who helped desegregate Southern California schools, dies at 95 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z This absorbing account of the impeachment of President Johnson contains no mention of President Trump. Review | How we tell the story of America 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z President Johnson learned of Chennault’s activities from the FBI and other sources, but he had no proof Nixon himself was involved. Trump’s bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z And after President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law in 1964, Russell led the Southern boycott of the Democratic National Convention. South Carolina editorial roundup 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z President Johnson urged us to circulate the report widely throughout the government and to the public, despite its controversial emphasis on the need for “economic incentives” to discourage pollution, including—shudder!—taxes levied against polluters. What if we covered the climate crisis like we did the start of World War II? | Bill Moyers 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z In response, Congress authorized President Johnson, in 1964, to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.” Is Trump Yet Another U.S. President Provoking a War? 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z That friction led to one of the most extraordinary and underappreciated tales in modern American political history: President Johnson kept undercutting the presidential campaign of Humphrey, his own vice president. Democrats’ struggle over masculinity in an election 50 years ago is still playing out today 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Appointed by President Johnson, the former World War II naval pilot was a lawyer who specialized in aviation-related issues. PSA crash at 40: A page of San Diego history 'written in blood' 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Eight blocks to the south, between the Coliseum, where protesters threw an anti-birthday party for President Johnson on Tuesday, and the Conrad Hilton, another skirmish was reported by police. AP Was There: Protesters fight Chicago police, guardsmen 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z President Johnson took scientists seriously; as vice president, he had been chosen by President Kennedy to chair the intergovernmental committee overseeing NASA’s charge to put a man on the moon. What if we covered the climate crisis like we did the start of World War II? | Bill Moyers 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Of course, President Johnson’s plan didn’t work out. Readers Respond to the 8.12.18 Issue 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z On the verge of announcing his presidential campaign, Kennedy was there to document the effectiveness of President Johnson’s War on Poverty programs and whether citizens had “enough to eat.” Unraveling the hidden Black history of Appalachian activism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z President Johnson and others around the nation, including Kennedy’s rival on the campaign primary trail, Minnesota’s Sen. McCarthy, expressed shock and sorrow. How the AP covered the RFK assassination 50 years ago 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The day after the report aired on the CBS Evening News, President Johnson called network executive Frank Stanton, according to a book Safer wrote many years later. Did the news media, led by Walter Cronkite, lose the war in Vietnam? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Hunt claimed to have questioned the order, only to be told that it had been a personal request of President Johnson and that the information he recovered would be delivered to a White House aide. The FBI Spied for LBJ’s Campaign 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z He was “convinced that President Johnson’s always large eccentricities had taken a huge leap into unreason,” but other longtime White House insiders, including former secretary of state Dean Rusk, derided such speculation as “nonsense.” Richard N. Goodwin, ‘supreme generalist’ who was top aide to JFK and LBJ, dies at 86 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z “To which, it is said, President Johnson replied, ‘Well, what the hell’s the presidency for? The Fair Housing Act was languishing in Congress. Then Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z His experience as an economic adviser during the Kennedy administration and as a White House aide under President Johnson informed his teaching at Harvard, where he spent most of his career. Francis Bator, Hungarian Refugee, Advised Lyndon Johnson on Economics and Europe 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In one of his best prepared and professionally publicised speeches, he referred to President Johnson’s “War on Poverty” as a “shining moment” in American history: The making of Martin Luther King’s speeches 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z After seeing the program, President Johnson immediately called Reasoner and invited him to the Oval Office, where the president tried to shape his views before he left on the trip. War, riots and assassinations make today’s news coverage no match for 1968 TV 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z After the Civil War, President Johnson extended a pardon to all former Confederates on Christmas Day 1868. Michael Behenna seeks Trump pardon 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z In Washington, President Johnson saw Westmoreland’s confident assertions of victory as an antidote to the rising clamor of criticism in Congress and in the media over war policy. AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z As an adviser to President Johnson, he dealt with issues including international-trade negotiations, restrictions on convertibility of the dollar into gold and French withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s integrated military command. Francis Bator, Hungarian Refugee, Advised Lyndon Johnson on Economics and Europe 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z One illustration of the tremendous property damage the Communist offensive has caused was a report from President Johnson on the toll of aircraft at American fields across Vietnam. AP WAS THERE: The Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z President Johnson did not have Twitter, Trump’s social media weapon of choice, to push back against stories and anchors he didn’t like. War, riots and assassinations make today’s news coverage no match for 1968 TV 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z During the Vietnam War, according to Professor Dallek, President Johnson became obsessed with defending himself and would call aides in the middle of the night. How does Trump's schedule compare with other presidents? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z President Johnson was presiding over a meeting of his closest security advisers, their biggest Vietnam concern the struggle to avoid the loss of the U.S. AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Long after serving in the White House, he remained loyal to President Johnson and disputed suggestions that the former president was a hick with little grasp of international affairs. Francis Bator, Hungarian Refugee, Advised Lyndon Johnson on Economics and Europe 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Gone are the days of the lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy, and the masterful Senator and President Johnson, and even the coercive and demanding Franklin Roosevelt. Avoiding Trump, but Adopting His Divisive Playbook: Will It Work in Virginia? 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z President Johnson tried to cajole anchors as well. War, riots and assassinations make today’s news coverage no match for 1968 TV 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z He gave President Johnson his resignation as attorney general in August of 1964, nine months after the assassination. An excerpt from 'Playing With Fire' 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The minutes of the meeting record President Johnson as responding, “This could be very bad. What can we do to shake them from this? … What comes to mind in the way of retaliation?” AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z An unnamed informant told American spies that the KGB had proof that “President Johnson was responsible for the assassination.” JFK files, though incomplete, are a treasure trove for answer seekers 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z An informant said the white supremacist group had "documented proof that President Johnson was formerly a member of the Klan in Texas during the early days of his political career". Key points from released JFK files 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Desperate to find a tall enough man in possession of a suitably formal tailcoat, he landed in the natural place: the White House, where he borrowed a suit from President Johnson. 50 Years Ago This Week: Washington's Biggest Peace Protest 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z There was no doubt that President Johnson was going to be the Democratic nominee, and as a brilliant manipulator of the powers of incumbency would likely be reelected. An excerpt from 'Playing With Fire' 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z It was during the meeting that President Johnson first heard the alarming news from Saigon. AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z In response, President Johnson appointed a commission that confirmed the inequities of the system. Opinion | The Moral Case for Draft Resistance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Don't change horses in midstream, or convince President Johnson not to run again? 50 Years Ago This Week: Doubt Spreads as Marines Take Fire in Vietnam 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z As soon as they were inaugurated, now President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson championed yet another effort known as the Medical Care for the Aged bill. LBJ launches Medicare: “You can’t treat grandma this way” 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z After 24 hours of turmoil, President Johnson authorized the Governor’s request for federal troops. What Detroit Firefighters Saw During the 1967 Riot 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Harry McPherson was a special counsel for President Johnson who served in his administration from 1965 to 1969 and was with him in the White House as the Tet Offensive ran its course. AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Neither President Johnson nor General Hershey saw any grace in draft resistance. Opinion | The Moral Case for Draft Resistance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Before the unrest, Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh, often described as a white liberal visionary, touted the Motor City as a successful example of President Johnson's Model Cities Program. Detroit recalls five days of violent unrest a half century later - BBC News 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z President Johnson, though no longer officially a candidate for reelection, stuck to a firm bargaining position and quietly hoped that whoever succeeded him would wage the military effort with vigor — as indeed Richard Nixon did. Opinion | A ferocious Vietnam battle portrayed as a pivotal moment of the war 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z “Above all President Johnson needed reassurance,” McMaster writes. Review | 20 years ago, H.R. McMaster wrote a cautionary tale. Now he risks becoming one. 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z President Johnson balked and began negotiations with North Vietnam. There’s a problem with trusting the generals to handle war 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z In 1964, a group of prominent liberals wrote President Johnson to warn of a “cybernation revolution” inexorably creating “a permanent impoverished and jobless class established in the midst of potential abundance.” The Jobs Americans Do 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z After President Johnson ignored an appeal for clemency for Mary Surratt from five of the nine jurors, she was hanged. ‘Assassins!’: A Confederate spy was accused of helping kill Abraham Lincoln. Then he vanished. 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The book argues that military leaders should have confronted President Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as it became clear that their plans, or lack thereof, weren’t working. Trump names H.R. McMaster as national security advisor to replace ousted Flynn 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z It is the same word McMaster used to describe Wheeler’s relationship to President Johnson, and he did not mean it as a compliment. Review | 20 years ago, H.R. McMaster wrote a cautionary tale. Now he risks becoming one. 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Late on the night of Aug. 4, 1964, President Johnson delivered a nationally televised address announcing what he described as an attack by North Vietnam on the Navy warships Maddox and Turner Joy. White House whoppers: Six times a president misled the public 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z And, he said, the library benefited from the trust between Mr. Middleton and President Johnson. Harry Middleton, Ex-Speechwriter Who Led L.B.J. Library, Dies at 95 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Under President Johnson’s Great Society initiative, the U.S. government had passed an overwhelming number of bills and put a huge amount of money toward those efforts. 50 Years Ago This Week: The Problem With Building a 'Great Society' 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z He maintained friendships with those on the left, especially President Johnson — he even went skinny dipping with Johnson and others in the White House pool, according to Wacker. How Donald Trump is bringing Billy Graham’s complicated family back into White House circles 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Some, including President Johnson, preferred an easier route back to unity. History Is a Pendulum Not an Arc 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Until then, I didn’t know about the massive antiwar protest outside a Century City fundraiser for President Johnson, with dozens of demonstrators clubbed by police and carted off to hospitals. Stop, hey, what's that sound? The 50th anniversary of a time when music, revolution, cops and revelers clashed on the Sunset Strip 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z President Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, owned a TV station, KTBC, in Austin, Texas, and wanted to avoid regulatory problems without having to sell it. Donald Trump’s children: Will they be his advisers? - BBC News 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z President Johnson happily posed for photographs with the shorter athletes, but when it was time for Mr. Bradley, the captain of the gold-medal basketball team, to pose, the president did not turn to the camera. No Need to Rise at a de Blasio News Conference: He Will Be Sitting, Too. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z After suffering reunification by force of arms Dixie seceded again, this time from the national Democratic coalition after President Johnson signed into law Civil Rights legislation for descendants of slaves that it had long opposed. How Republicans Lost Their Best Shot at the Hispanic Vote 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z As Woodsworth’s history shows, the neighborhood’s block associations and community councils made it seem a perfect laboratory for President Johnson’s War on Poverty, whose aim was to marry grassroots organizing with Great Society bureaucracy. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z He was promoted to run the Bureau of the Budget by President Johnson in 1965. Charles L. Schultze, 91, Dies; Advised Presidents on Economic Policy 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Peace Corps—is being carried forward by his successor, President Johnson, an enthusiastic supporter from the outset. From the Archives: Sargent Shriver Explains Peace Corps 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z I recall my keen disappointment during the 1964 convention when President Johnson insisted that the Freedom Democrats be rejected, in the interest of not discommoding white Southerner voters. 50 Years of Electoral College Maps: How the U.S. Turned Red and Blue 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “I don’t understand how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam but not to Alabama,” he later recalled saying at the time. One Reason Why John Lewis Is Getting the Liberty Medal, as Told in 1965 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The movie finds President Johnson attempting to fulfill the dreams of his assassinated predecessor by passing civil rights legislation and him ultimately succeeding in his 1964 re-election bid amid the escalation of the Vietnam War. Blu-ray reviews: ‘Money Monster,’ ‘All the Way’ and ‘Now You See Me 2’ 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z He met privately with President Johnson just before Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Congressman John Lewis’ ‘March’ comic books offer history lessons for a perilous present 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z As President Johnson said: “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” Bryan Cranston: Black Voters Are Being Silenced at the Polls 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z A narrator then urges Americans, "Vote for President Johnson. The stakes are too high for you to stay home." The Fear Factor 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z "The Administration consensus on bombing came at the height of the presidential-election contest between President Johnson and Senator Barry Goldwater, whose advocacy of full-scale air attacks on North Vietnam had become a major issue." Pentagon Papers: Secret Decisions That Altered the Vietnam War 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Frank Church had opposed President Johnson on Vietnam but supported his Great Society programs and had been an ally of Hubert Humphrey on civil rights and many other issues. Cleveland or Bust? Not So Fast 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z But he also sat down with President Johnson in the Oval Office to try and get a Civil Rights Act and a Voting Rights Act passed. Read Obama's Commencement Address to Howard University 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z That’s the America that President Johnson envisioned when he signed the Voting Rights Act into law, and it’s the America we’re fighting for now. Bryan Cranston: Black Voters Are Being Silenced at the Polls 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z President Johnson’s achievements in civil rights legislation, heralded in a similar seminar at the library two years ago, were overshadowed by the grinding war. John F. Kerry and the Vietnam War continue to be intertwined 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Former President Johnson let it be known through a spokesman in Texas that he would not comment on the "Times" series. Pentagon Papers: Secret Decisions That Altered the Vietnam War 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z But others had trouble understanding why the report recommended such harsh punishment for those, like President Johnson Sirleaf, who had committed relatively minor transgressions, while granting pardon to a self-described mass murderer. General Butt Naked, the Repentant Warlord 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z “March’s” tone turns triumphant five months later, though, when President Johnson hosted Lewis and other civil-rights leaders in the Oval Office. Exclusive: Rep. John Lewis on unity, Trump and his new graphic memoir, ‘March: Book Three’ 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Mississippi senator James Eastland alleged that the movement’s Meridian office had reported the three men missing in advance of their disappearance, and he called on President Johnson to launch an investigation into “civil rights fraud”. American crossroads: Reagan, Trump and the devil down south 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z A 1965 White House conference convened by President Johnson’s citizens committee recommended strip-mining controls, bans on billboards and burying power lines. Henry Diamond, Lawyer at Forefront of Conservation Movement, Dies at 83 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The 1960s saw an extended period of Supreme Court understaffing as President Johnson played musical chairs with various high offices. Only Eight Justices? So What 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z It wasn’t till 1965, after Kennedy’s death, that President Johnson succeeded in creating a new department of Housing and Urban Development, coyly dancing around who would head it up. How the U.S. Government Got Its First African-American Cabinet Secretary 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z When Nixon returned from several years of laying low to run for president in 1968, President Johnson called him a “chronic campaigner.” How Richard Nixon Owned the Campaign Trail 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The bloody events that day would shake the nation and lead later that year to President Johnson’s signature on the Voting Rights Act. Why are there no staff black cartoonists at a time when we need them most? 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Five months later, Boynton Robinson stood in the White House as President Johnson signed the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act into law. The Lives They Lived 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z By the end of that year, President Johnson had signed two auto-safety bills into law and established the National Traffic Safety Agency, despite the auto industry’s outspoken desire to regulate itself. This Book Has Kept American Drivers Safe for 50 Years 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z President Johnson passed Medicare and Medicaid to provide health care to millions of senior citizens and families with children, persons with disabilities and some of the most vulnerable people in this county. Democratic socialism is as American as apple pie: Why Bernie Sanders’ views are in the mainstream 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z He had already said that the invitation had presented a problem for him, because he opposed President Johnson’s escalation of the war in Vietnam. Following a Musical Thread That Ties One Life Together 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z He lobbied to have himself appointed by President Johnson on the Warren Commission. “Every president has been manipulated national security officials”: David Talbot exposes America’s “deep state” 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z President Johnson set the signing ceremony for October 3. From the Archives: A New Mix for America's Melting Pot in 1965 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z That was a precursor of the PDB that the agency began producing for President Johnson in 1964, after officials ascertained that he just didn’t consume information in the same fashion as his predecessor. President’s Daily Brief documents, newly declassified by CIA, reveal intel preferences 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z President Johnson said that “our cities and our new urban age must not be symbols of a sordid society.” At 50, This Housing Policy Needs a Big Renovation 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It showed President Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on July 2 of that year—not the Voting Rights Act. ‘Bigotry, Pure and Simple’ 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z In November of 1965, President Johnson signed the Higher Education Act, which created the student aid program now known as the Pell Grants to help finance college opportunity. As We Celebrate the Voting Rights Act, A Related Promise Remains Unfulfilled 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The incident moved President Johnson to tell a joint session of Congress on March 15, a week later, that he would work to end voting discrimination once and for all. Voting Rights Still a Hot-Button Issue 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “Quite frankly,” Mr. Cohen told President Johnson, “there’s no longer any room for the private insurance companies to sell insurance policies for people over 65.” As Medicare and Medicaid Turn 50, Use of Private Health Plans Surges 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In June, it served as the basis for a major speech by President Johnson. “Racial self-help” or “blaming the victim”?: 50 years after its publication, the Moynihan Report still provokes debate about the causes and cures of African-American inequality 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z It began deliberating June 29 and presented its verdicts to President Johnson on July 5, according to Swanson and Weinberg’s book, “Lincoln’s Assassins.” One of the last grim scenes of the Civil War was caught on camera 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Richmond and much of the rest of the South were in ruins, ruled by the U.S. military, while an untested President Johnson was trying to find his way forward. July 4, 1865: First Independence Day after Civil War subdued as nation healed 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z President Johnson also quoted the lyrics when describing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. We Shall Overcome singer Guy Carawan dies at 87 - BBC News 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z In this case, Khong argued, the historical analogy that a policymaker saw in the American position in Vietnam in 1965 proved to be the single most important factor in establishing his recommendation to President Johnson. What Was on the Minds of the Big Three at Potsdam 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Rather, they were described in great and compelling detail by the 1968 Kerner Commission, which was tasked by President Johnson with determining the causes of the urban riots during the 1960s. White America’s racial amnesia: The sobering truth about our country’s “race riots” 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Seeking re-election in 1964, Mr. Alger was buried in a Democratic landslide led by President Johnson, whom Mr. Alger had deeply offended. Bruce Alger, 96, Dies; Led ‘Mink Coat’ Protest Against Lyndon Johnson 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Vice President Johnson is in the city headquarters, and guarded by troops. AP Was There: Original AP report of Lincoln’s assassination 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z President Johnson hoped to stave off the violence and media attention a second attempt at reaching the state capital would surely yield. How a Little-Known Government Agency Kept the Peace in Selma 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z President Johnson saw the urban policeman as the “frontline soldier” of this mission, and, as a result, the administration focused on building the weapons arsenal of local law enforcement. Why We Should Reconsider the War on Crime 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “President Johnson used a lot of pens to sign his acts; it’s said up to 100 pens,” Daniel said. Oakland University home to pens used for ‘Great Society’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Today the bed where King slept and the phone he used to talk with President Johnson are still intact. Inside the Home Where MLK Planned the Selma-to-Montgomery March 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Southern committee chairmen didn’t invite George Wallace to come to Congress and rebut President Johnson, as Speaker Boehner recently invited a foreign leader to come embarrass President Obama. What America Has Lost Since Selma 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z In time, their chorus would well up and reach President Johnson. Text of Obama’s remark at Selma anniversary commemoration 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z In time, their chorus would well up and reach President Johnson. Obama's Selma speech: 'Our march is not yet finished' 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z In time, their chorus would reach President Johnson. Read the Full Text of Obama's Speech in Selma 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been pushing President Johnson to publicly advocate for such a law, was at a friend’s home in Selma on the night of the momentous speech. Inside the Home Where MLK Planned the Selma-to-Montgomery March 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z “I said in this church after the march: I don’t understand how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam but not to Alabama,” Lewis said. Watch John Lewis Describe the Violence of 'Bloody Sunday' 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z On Aug. 6, 1965, months after the march, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. 5 things you might not know about the Selma marches 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z But the protesters were protected by the Alabama National Guard, federalized by President Johnson, along with FBI agents, federal marshals and 2,000 soldiers. Along the Selma march route, progress has been two steps forward, one back 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z She regarded President Johnson’s March 1965 voting rights speech as ranking in greatness with Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. A chronicler of the civil rights movement 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z In a statement on her website, President Johnson Sirleaf said "health protocols" would prevent the virus being carried across the country's borders when they reopen on Sunday. Ebola-hit Liberia to reopen borders 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z I argued, both upon initially seeing the film prior to its debut and after the firestorm began, that President Johnson is presented as a complex, shaded, and ultimately moral individual. 'Selma' Director Ava DuVernay Talks Oscars On '60 Minutes' - "I Never Thought It Would Happen" 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The day before Churchill’s death at the age of 90 on Jan. 24, 1965, President Johnson had been taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital with respiratory problems. Churchill’s Funeral, and the Perils of Staying Home 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z “It was not very tense at all. We were very much welcomed by President Johnson,” recalled former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, who attended the session as a young lieutenant to King. ‘Selma’ sets off a controversy amid Oscar buzz 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Since Governor George Wallace could not assure our protection, President Johnson commanded the National Guard to ensure our safety on the road. Rep. John Lewis: An Oral History of Selma and the Struggle for the Voting Rights Act 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z In nationwide address, President Johnson Sirleaf said that night curfews would be reduced and weekly markets could take place across Liberia. Liberia leader lifts Ebola emergency 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Many live with the kinds of problems President Johnson wanted to solve. LBJ helps Franklin High students take to stage 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z President Johnson had decided to name Washington the first black “mayor” of the District of Columbia. Ben Bradlee, legendary Washington Post editor, dies at 93 President Johnson Sirleaf added that a generation of Africans were at risk of "being lost to economic catastrophe". All nations 'have a stake' in Ebola 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z “I don’t know how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam,” I said, “but he can’t send troops to protect people in this country who only want to register and vote.” Rep. John Lewis: An Oral History of Selma and the Struggle for the Voting Rights Act 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z And soon enough, Operation CHAOS, an “illegal domestic intelligence program” begun under President Johnson, was exposed in the New York Times by Seymour Hersh. Revisiting 'The CIA: Time to Come in From the Cold' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z As one registered Republican from Vermont told a reporter, “I don’t think too much of President Johnson, but I guess I’m really afraid of Senator Goldwater.” One of the most infamous political ads in history aired 50 years ago 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, President Johnson established a commission to study crime and policing in the United States. From nightsticks to night vision: see what your local police are packing 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z More than anything else, it was the federal government’s intervention to make higher education “more accessible” starting in the 1960s under President Johnson’s administration. Federal Meddling Has Badly Damaged The College Ideal, But Establishment Voices Blame The Wrong People 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z The papers were “a tough attack on Kennedy” and “brutal on President Johnson,” Haig told Nixon. Richard Nixon's Arc of Triumphs and Doom 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York and some prominent advisers had urged President Johnson to select Edward Weinfeld, who was also a federal judge. Wilfred Feinberg, Federal Appeals Court Judge and Mentor, Dies at 94 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Late in the 1968 presidential campaign, President Johnson, having forsworn another term, was ready to halt the bombing of North Vietnam to try to revive peace negotiations. Book Review: ‘Chasing Shadows’ and ‘The Nixon Tapes’ One amends an executive order signed by President Johnson in 1965 that prevents federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, religion or national origin. Obama to sign executive orders barring anti-gay discrimination 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z He phoned his decision to the White House, and President Johnson gave his blessing. The Moment Neil Armstrong Is Assigned to Land on the Moon [Excerpt] 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z In “The Passage of Power,” Robert Caro follows President Johnson through the most frustrating and triumphant parts of his career. Join a discussion about Robert Caro's 'The Passage of Power' 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z This was the old schoolhouse where President Johnson first saw extreme poverty in 1928. Boom Meets Bust in Texas: Atop Sea of Oil, Poverty Digs In 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z “During President Johnson’s speech, marksmen were positioned on the roofs of campus buildings still under construction.” Obama's address at UC Irvine sparks memories of another time 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z That fall, Robinson joined the 94 percent of the African-American electorate that backed President Johnson. Jackie Robinson and Nixon: Life and Death of a Political Friendship 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z That is an argument nearly unchanged since 1964, when President Johnson’s advisers proposed the Job Corps program. For LBJ’s Job Corps, the question remains: Does it work? “He made us one people. I’ve got great respect for the way President Johnson used the presidency to achieve big goals. He understood the risks to his party and the risks to his coalition.” Bush Urges Effort to Close Black and White Students’ Achievement Gap 2014-04-11T00:24:49Z President Johnson had known the metallic taste of hunger, the feel of a mother's callused hands, rubbed raw from washing and cleaning and holding the household together. TRANSCRIPT: President Obama speaks on civil rights at LBJ memorial 2014-04-10T17:54:00Z President Johnson, of course, did not prevent Brezhnev from invading Czechoslovakia in 1968. Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia: Debating Obama’s Weakness Only Makes Our Entire Country Weak 2014-03-19T19:30:56Z The accord formed part of a back-channel request from President Johnson to ease the pace of escalating racial tensions connected to civil rights demonstrations. Ronald Reagan meets Black Power: Stokely Carmichael, civil rights and the 1960s 2014-03-09T10:59:00Z Her father Sargent Shriver was tapped by President Johnson to run the War on Poverty 50 years ago, a time when poverty wore a very different face than it does today. A Woman’s (Only) Nation: What’s Missing from the Shriver Report 2014-01-17T05:01:39Z President Johnson saw it as a way to “prove the success of our system; to disprove those cynics and critics at home and abroad who question our purpose and our competence.” In the War on Poverty, a Dogged Adversary 2013-12-17T23:46:14Z The meat in the coconut, as President Johnson would put it, was the Voting Rights Act. TRANSCRIPT: President Obama speaks on civil rights at LBJ memorial 2014-04-10T17:54:00Z On the first day of Medicare, President Johnson described the program in an address to the nation. The Four Things You Need to Know About Obamacare's First Day 2013-10-01T09:54:21Z Just three months later, we lost President Kennedy and we thank God that President Johnson came in and fought for all those issues I just mentioned. TRANSCRIPT: Bill Clinton’s speech on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington 2013-08-28T18:54:00Z For example, back in late 1964, President Johnson wanted to oust J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s first and only director since it was founded in 1935. Eric Holder: Echoes of other Washington officials? 2013-06-19T12:00:00Z Now, as in November 1963, President Johnson seems determined to strike forcefully at the consciences of all Americans in order to wrest from tragedy and trauma the will to make a better society. Looking Back at TIME: 45 Years After the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 2013-04-05T00:50:23Z President Johnson understood was that equality required more than the absence of oppression; it required the presence of economic opportunity. TRANSCRIPT: President Obama speaks on civil rights at LBJ memorial 2014-04-10T17:54:00Z An aide to President Johnson called the representative “one of the few men L.B.J. was ever afraid of,” while President Richard M. Nixon dubbed him “the executioner.” Jack Brooks, Former Texas Congressman, Dies at 89 2012-12-05T14:55:42Z Many had predicted it would be higher than it was when President Johnson declared a War on Poverty in 1964. Census: Middle class shrinks to an all-time low 2012-09-12T17:30:00Z By 1964, when President Johnson declared a War on Poverty, 19 percent of Americans were poor. Poverty was flat in 2011; percentage without health insurance fell 2012-09-12T14:46:47Z President Johnson’s announce ment of a major peace offensive in Asia, coupled with his renunciation of another term, raised anticipation throughout the world that the long agony of Viet Nam might soon be ended. Looking Back at TIME: 45 Years After the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 2013-04-05T00:50:23Z We want to open the gates to opportunity, President Johnson said. TRANSCRIPT: President Obama speaks on civil rights at LBJ memorial 2014-04-10T17:54:00Z When President Johnson took up the bill after Kennedy’s murder, Mr. Brooks was one of 11 out of 92 Southerners to vote for it on the House floor in 1964. Jack Brooks, Former Texas Congressman, Dies at 89 2012-12-05T14:55:42Z “President Johnson even went skinny-dipping while in office with evangelist Billy Graham,” the group reports. Pledging a Nude Deal 2012-08-21T23:02:04Z In 1965, a government committee warned President Johnson of the dangers of global warming. The Basic Science Of Climate Change Is Undeniable 2012-07-11T02:59:26Z But it was under President Johnson that Mr. Salinger was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy and to run for the California seat in the 1964 election. Le Thor Journal: Museum in France Honors Kennedy Aide Pierre Salinger 2012-07-11T02:12:14Z No one knew politics and no one loved legislating more than President Johnson. TRANSCRIPT: President Obama speaks on civil rights at LBJ memorial 2014-04-10T17:54:00Z President Johnson was habitually described as a 'drunken boor.' Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z During the Reconstruction period he favoured the congressional plan rather than that of President Johnson, and on this account resigned the district-attorneyship. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z To-day we learned the particulars of President Johnson's disgraceful speech, which awakens but one roar of indignation. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z In 1964, President Johnson said, “Let this session of Congress be known as the session which did more for civil rights than the last hundred sessions combined.” Sidebar : State of the Union Can Be a Trial for Supreme Court Justices 2012-01-23T17:09:23Z In short, President Johnson crafted a purposeful agenda for federal engagement in education that remains relevant today as poverty continues to hinder our society’s progress. Who was the ?best? education president? 2011-11-21T11:00:00Z Certain correspondence that had passed between General Grant and President Johnson relating to the retirement of the former from the War Office was also sent to the same committee. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z In April, 1865, President Johnson issued a proclamation offering amnesty to all those who had borne arms against the United States, with certain exceptions and subject to certain conditions. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z She saw Secretary Seward, who was very ungracious to her; and President Johnson, whom she found "not one inclined to much speech." Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z In the following year he became involved in the deadly quarrel between President Johnson and Congress. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z President Johnson now took the step that ultimately brought about his impeachment. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z The autumn elections of 1866 returned a larger majority in Congress against President Johnson than had been there before. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The violation of this law by President Johnson was the chief cause of his impeachment in 1868. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z On Thursday, June 8th, the 6th corps was reviewed in Washington in presence of President Johnson and other leading officials. Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers 2011-09-29T02:00:13.017Z President Johnson was much disgusted at the readiness with which Grant turned over the office to Stanton, and a bitter controversy ensued between Johnson and Grant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The latter course was pursued, and after some delay President Johnson began to act. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z Yet we insist that President Johnson's view is one that a true man may honestly, conscientiously hold—may hold it without being a hypocrite, a demagogue, or a tool of the slave power. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z President Johnson was impeached, mainly for the violation of the tenure of office act, but the senate failed by one vote to convict him. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z President Johnson, though a native Southerner, was a puppet now in the hands of his powerful enemies who dominated Congress. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z In May 1872 something was done towards alleviating the odious Reconstruction laws for dragooning the South, which had been passed by Congress in spite of the vetoes of President Johnson. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z After the execution, the statement to which you refer was made that President Johnson had not seen the petition for the commutation of the death sentence upon Mrs. Surratt. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z President Johnson at first had been rather more radical than the majority of his party as to the measure of punishment to be visited upon the leaders of the rebellion. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The congressman, who was on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, generally backed President Johnson’s policies in waging the Vietnam War, saying he was “opposed to the unilateral withdrawal of our troops.” Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., Longtime New Jersey Congressman, Dies at 95 2011-05-23T23:32:05Z After the time of President Johnson, against whom it was aimed, the party in power in Congress found little occasion to insist upon its enforcement; its constitutionality was doubtful, and it fell into the background. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z The authorities at Washington could not fairly avoid this conclusion, and certainly President Johnson reached it instantly. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z And these are all the members of the Cabinet of President Johnson in July, 1865. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z President Johnson refused to interfere with General Terry's order when it was brought to his attention. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The great advantage of an amendment of this kind, in President Johnson’s opinion, was that Congress would thus shift all responsibility regarding negro suffrage to the States. The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction 2011-03-26T02:00:12.183Z Such was the situation at the close of President Johnson’s term of office, and the elevation of General Grant to the presidential chair. The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South 2011-03-17T02:00:12.580Z President Johnson’s attitude toward the southern states encouraged the hope of speedy restoration of order and a large measure of prosperity. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z But, during this interval, as it was given out from the White House, President Johnson was too ill to attend to public business. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z He took an active part in the attempt to impeach President Johnson. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z President Johnson, in his veto message, declared that a careful examination had convinced him that the same reasons assigned in his veto of February 19, applied also to this measure. The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction 2011-03-26T02:00:12.183Z Shriver, the Democratic substitute nominee for vice president in 1972 and briefly a presidential candidate in 1976, was an advocate for the poor and powerless who helped launch President Johnson's War on Poverty. Sargent Shriver, former vice presidential nominee, dies 2011-01-19T00:39:48Z Military Government March 2, 1867, after two years of peace, Congress passed over President Johnson’s veto a bill relegating the southern states to the condition of conquered provinces. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z At the time of my arrest, there was a newspaper called the “Republican,” published in the city of Washington, in the interests of President Johnson. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Alas, President Johnson didn't muzzle Kennedy, and he suffered dearly for it. With Hillary, Obama avoided an LBJ mistake 2010-10-01T19:01:00Z On February 7, 1866, a delegation of colored representatives from fifteen States and the District of Columbia called upon President Johnson in order to present their wishes concerning the granting of suffrage to their race. The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction 2011-03-26T02:00:12.183Z Many historians say that President Johnson might have found reason to escalate military action against North Vietnam even without the Tonkin Gulf crisis, and that he apparently had his own doubts. Senate Records Show Doubts on ?64 Vietnam Crisis 2010-07-15T01:59:00Z He said that this was in accordance with the advice of President Johnson. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z The “Republican,” speaking for President Johnson, declares, in the article which will be found below, his readiness to act. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z “As President Johnson’s general in the war on poverty, he initiated an array of programs to help at-risk youth, older workers and the hardcore unemployed,” Ms. Solis said Sunday. W. Willard Wirtz, Former Labor Chief, Dies at 98 2010-04-26T01:36:00Z In reply, President Johnson described his sacrifices for the colored man, and went on to express his indignation at being arraigned by incompetent persons. The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction 2011-03-26T02:00:12.183Z The organization of Arkansas being now acceptable to Congress, a bill admitting it to the Union was passed over President Johnson’s veto, and on the 22nd of June 1868 the admission was consummated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" President Johnson appointed it as a day of national thanksgiving for our many 198blessings as a people, and Governor Fenton and several governors of other states have issued proclamations in accordance with the President’s recommendation. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl From 1863 to 1869 he was a representative in Congress, taking an influential part in debate, and acting as one of the managers of President Johnson’s impeachment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" After the Civil War Blair became a supporter of President Johnson’s reconstruction policy, and eventually rejoined the Democratic party. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" A committee of the convention hastened formally to present its proceedings to President Johnson, who had taken the keenest interest in the plans of the National Union party. The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction 2011-03-26T02:00:12.183Z Throughout the war he allied himself with the most radical of the Republican faction in opposition to President Lincoln’s policy, and subsequently became one of the bitterest opponents of President Johnson’s plan of reconstruction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Canandaigua, September 1.—A party of us went down to the Canandaigua hotel this morning to see President Johnson, General Grant and Admiral Farragut and other dignitaries. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl Under these circumstances, there must be a common and anxious desire to know what may reasonably be expected of President Johnson. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 After the Civil War he vigorously opposed the Congressional plan of reconstructing the late Confederate states, and himself drafted the message of President Johnson, vetoing the Reconstruction Act of the 2nd of March 1867. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The continued friction between the President and the Secretary of War seemed to President Johnson to necessitate Stanton’s retirement, but repeated hints to that effect were not recognized by the latter. The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction 2011-03-26T02:00:12.183Z President Johnson termed his plan "my policy," and briefly it was: To appoint provisional or temporary governors for each of the States lately in rebellion. The Greater Republic A History of the United States This force also brought out President Johnson's proclamation of a reward for the capture we had already made. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 Fortunately for the country, President Johnson got into a row with both capitalists and politicians. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 In 1867 the Republican party had prepared for the admission of Colorado as a state, but the enabling act was vetoed by President Johnson, and statehood was not gained until 1876. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Almost every reconstruction plan is sent over the wires "sugar-coated" with, "President Johnson, in this, is but carrying out the spirit and purpose of Mr. Lincoln!" The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The States that had seceded were divided into five military districts, and President Johnson, much against his will, was obliged to appoint the governors. The Greater Republic A History of the United States Who was right in the United States after the Civil War—President Johnson, who wished to try Lee for treason, or General Grant, who insisted that he be not touched? The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time One of the papers told in vivid detail of the disbanding of the army of the North by President Johnson on assuming office after Lincoln's assassination. Death Points a Finger In this respect, President Johnson found that the presence of Governor Pierpont in Richmond—purporting to govern under the constitution which his government had drafted and ratified in Alexandria in 1864—was a complicating factor. The Fairfax County Courthouse In the elections of 1866 the people repudiated President Johnson's policy by emphatic majorities. Ulysses S. Grant President Johnson was a man of strong passions and prejudices. The Greater Republic A History of the United States During President Johnson's administration Mr. King, while Collector of the Port of New York, boarded a Jersey City ferry boat one morning, attached weights to his person and jumped into the river. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century For her "dare-devil independence" as a writer in attacking President Johnson and charging that he had part in the assassination of President Lincoln, she was relieved of her office and her press destroyed. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I He labored for the impeachment of President Johnson and was one of the senatorial coterie that influenced Grant. The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Believing him now unalterably opposed to the bestowal, upon the freedmen, of equal civil rights such as were specified in the bill, they hailed President Johnson as their champion more loudly than ever. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 He was chosen a United States senator in 1868, and strongly opposed the impeachment of President Johnson. The Greater Republic A History of the United States But President Johnson, as became publicly known in one or two instances, obstinately dissuaded them from doing so, and the fight went on. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Nothing more was said that morning about our pictures, however, for both the Old Squire and Addison were engrossed in the late disturbing news concerning President Johnson. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine He addressed the King of Prussia in language that no gentleman ever employs, and he berated his underlings in a style that even President Johnson might despair of equalling. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 It had gradually become evident that President Johnson, whether such had been his original design or not,—probably not,—would by his political course be led into the Democratic party. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 President Johnson, being dissatisfied with his administration, relieved him of his appointment during the reconstruction troubles in Louisiana, and transferred him to the Department of the Missouri. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Since then he was ranked among the extreme anti-slavery men and as a Senator he was counted upon as a firm opponent of President Johnson's policy. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Conover, the perjured wretch, in prison for his crimes as a professional witness in the assassination trial, now circulated the rumour that he could give evidence that President Johnson was the assassin of Lincoln. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan It was the month when the vote was taken for impeachment of President Johnson. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Thus President Johnson had won a victory over the Republican majority in Congress. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 He filled this office till the close of President Johnson's administration. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy When a committee appointed for that purpose presented to President Johnson a copy of its proceedings, there was rather a note of defiance to his opponents, than of conciliation, in his response. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. "It was Mrs. Patterson, the daughter of President Johnson," I answered, in response to several questions. Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House And Professor Burgess adds, "This is a fair sample of the legislation subsequently passed by all the States reconstructed under President Johnson's plan." The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement President Johnson's defeat was more fatal than appeared on the surface. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 He eulogized President Johnson in the highest terms. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States But before President Johnson started on his ill-starred journey, arrangements had been made for the other national conventions. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. In a second interview, President Johnson heard the wish I had so much at heart, permission to visit Jefferson Davis. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Until now President Johnson, whatever dissent he might provoke, had appeared as a dignified statesman. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement On this principle, President Johnson's labors in organizing State governments were works of supererogation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 While waiting at Washington to be admitted to Congress, he acted as Private Secretary to President Johnson. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States President Johnson in every case promptly vetoed the bills objectionable to him or fulminated his protests against what he considered unwarrantable encroachments upon his constitutional prerogatives. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. In truth, President Johnson, slave to his own temper and appetites, was unfit to control others. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Seward probably had great influence on President Johnson's early measures. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement There is not a distinctly "radical" idea in the whole amendment,—nothing that President Johnson has not himself, within a comparatively recent period, stamped with his high approbation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 On the 22d of June, President Johnson sent a message to Congress informing them that the Secretary of State had transmitted to the Governors of the several States certified copies of the proposed amendment. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Among the resolutions passed by the convention was one declaring slavery abolished and the emancipated negro entitled to equal protection in every right of person and property, and another heartily endorsing President Johnson's reconstruction policy. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. It is hard to understand in a man of his sober, sound sense; but I am convinced that he firmly believed President Johnson to have been a conspirator in securing the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. Fifty Years of Public Service An episode in this story, though an important feature in a general history, must be the impeachment of President Johnson in the spring of 1868. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The history of reconstruction divides into three periods: Reconstruction during the war, President Johnson's work, and Congressional reconstruction. History of the United States, Volume 4 Mr. President, had the Senator from Ohio occupied the position which is occupied by President Johnson, in my judgment, he would have vetoed the Civil Rights Bill. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States President Johnson was more at the mercy of Congress than ever. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Some of President Johnson' veto messages were admirable. Fifty Years of Public Service It had been encouraged by President Johnson to resume with little change its old ways of government. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The plan proposed by President Johnson had sufficient trial to show that it must have led to ills worse than those actually experienced. History of the United States, Volume 4 Sir, I say, in the language of the lamented Douglas, and in the language of President Johnson, this is the white man's Government, made by the white man for the white man. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Mr. Baldwin explains that an important cause for the shelving of the measure without debate was the impeachment of President Johnson, which was at that time absorbing the attention of Congress and the country. International Copyright Considered in some of its Relations to Ethics and Political Economy He was Attorney-General under President Johnson, Secretary of State under President Hayes, and counsel representing the United States before many great international tribunals. Fifty Years of Public Service Sumner had been severe in his language; he had likened President Johnson to President Pierce in the Kansas days, and hinted a family resemblance to Pharaoh of Egypt. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement President Johnson then proceeded to reorganize the state governments. History of the United States, Volume 4 STORY, Justice, as quoted by President Johnson, 500. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The Sixth Corps, with many detachments, numbering about 30,000 in all, arrived later, and was reviewed by President Johnson and his Cabinet and Generals Grant, Sherman, and Meade, June 8, 1865. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 He defended President Johnson in his impeachment proceedings, and I remember yet his lofty eloquence on that memorable occasion. Fifty Years of Public Service In point of fact they were removed piecemeal by Congress almost as freely as President Johnson had done the like, and were ended except for a few hundred by a sweeping amnesty in 1872. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The questions at issue were the reconstruction measures of Congress and of President Johnson, and the merits of the new constitutional amendments. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes As President Johnson proceeded in his career of opposition to the legislative branch of the Government, the conviction fastened upon the minds of some that he was guilty of crimes rendering him liable to impeachment. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States It was supposed that President Johnson would err, if at all, in imposing too harsh terms upon these states. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. He early became prominent as one of the intimate friends and supporters of General Grant, who, every one supposed, would be the nominee of the Republican party to succeed President Johnson. Fifty Years of Public Service President Johnson held Jefferson Davis in long imprisonment, with the aggravation not only of close confinement and even a temporary manacling, but of a public accusation of complicity in the murder of Lincoln. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The central questions during the subsequent sessions were those growing out of the impeachment of President Johnson. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes President Johnson quickly brought matters to an issue. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 It became imperative during the long period before the meeting of Congress that President Johnson should, in the absence of legislation, formulate some plan for the reconstruction of these states. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. As a member of the House, Senator Allison followed the more radical element against President Johnson. Fifty Years of Public Service On the same day, May 29, President Johnson by proclamation appointed a provisional governor of North Carolina, and ordered an election of delegates to a constitutional convention. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement General Hayes during the session voted for a resolution commending President Johnson for declining to accept presents, and condemning the practice as demoralizing in its tendencies and destructive of public confidence. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes After two years of "reconstruction" under President Johnson's "policy," the Southern State governments were no better than those he had destroyed. Forty-Six Years in the Army I cannot think that these gentlemen are alarmed about the state of despotism that President Johnson is to establish in the southern states. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. He afterward became very influential among the radical element, and was one of the managers on the part of the House in the impeachment of President Johnson. Fifty Years of Public Service President Johnson used his influence to have the new constitutions open the door to a qualified negro suffrage. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement Of late, however, I have observed symptoms of a decided change in this respect: the policy of President Johnson being recognized as broad, generous, resolute, and auspicious of the best results. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 But I understand President Johnson repudiates this doctrine; hence it may be left out of the question. Forty-Six Years in the Army I propose to state here the measures adopted in respect to the national currency and debt during the rest of the administration of President Johnson. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. A major cause—witness the failure of President Johnson's proposed civil rights bill in 1966—was that open housing lacked a national consensus or widespread public support. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 This present report concerns the latest study, made under the leadership of Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall according to a directive given him by President Johnson in 1965. The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior President Johnson had taken the place of President Lincoln, and had, at the hands of many of Lincoln's vituperators, succeeded to an inheritance of the abuse lavished upon him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 The "policy" of President Johnson having resulted in an "irrepressible conflict" between him and Congress, finally culminating in his impeachment, the reconstruction of the States lately in insurrection was undertaken by Congress. Forty-Six Years in the Army President Johnson relied entirely upon McCulloch, and had no opinions upon financial topics. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The committee devoted the largest portion of its final report to the National Guard, "the only branch of the Armed Forces," it told President Johnson, "which has not been fully integrated." Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 This meant that the haughty chief would only treat through his agents, unless President Johnson came in person. Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 For two hours she waited to see President Johnson, in an anteroom "among the huge half-bushel-measure spittoons and terrible filth ... where the smell of tobacco and whiskey was powerful." Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian The impeachment trial of President Johnson had reached its crisis. Forty-Six Years in the Army In the latter part of 1867, and the early part of 1868, I became involved in a controversy, between President Johnson, General Grant and General Sherman, which caused the last-named serious embarrassment. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Money was lavishly expended in securing the arrest of those who had conspired with Booth to assassinate President Lincoln, Vice- President Johnson, Secretary Seward, and General Grant. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis The committees that conducted the investigations were composed of men who entertained opposite views in regard to the reconstruction of the government and in regard to the impeachment of President Johnson. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 By this time, Congress had passed a civil rights bill over President Johnson's veto, conferring the rights of citizenship upon freedmen, and a Fourteenth Amendment to make these rights permanent was now before Congress. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Of the impeachment and trial of President Johnson it is not my province to write. Forty-Six Years in the Army At this time President Johnson had come to open disagreement with Mr. Stanton, his Secretary of War, and wished to force him from the cabinet. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. After the pardon was signed by President Johnson, Detective Baker laid the papers before him, upon which the President grew very angry, and finally ordered Detective Baker from the White House. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis In the early part of the controversy President Johnson insisted that General Lee should be tried for treason. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 For opposing these measures of Congress President Johnson was impeached, and escaped conviction by one vote. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country President Johnson made no appointments to the Supreme Bench during his Administration. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 In his arguments in the impeachment case of President Johnson, he furnished the only ground on which the Senate could stand in rendering a verdict of not guilty. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 Soon afterward, President Johnson with Secretaries Seward and Welles, with General Grant and others, set out for Chicago to attend the ceremonies of laying the corner-stone of the monument to Stephen A. Douglas. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis The point of difference between General Grant and President Johnson in regard to the parole is very clear from General Grant's answers to questions by Mr. Thomas and Mr. Eldridge. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 He was distinguished as a judge, and later as an able and active participant in exciting debates in the Senate, extending from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise to the impeachment of President Johnson. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective The resolutions reflected universal Republican feeling in an impassioned arraignment of President Johnson. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The tardy proclamation of President Johnson was finally issued on the 6th of June, almost a week after the Fenians, under Gen. O'Neil had crossed over the Niagara. Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 When President Johnson occupied the White House he was joined by the ladies of his family. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis "Was there any difference of opinion on that point between yourself and President Johnson at any time?" Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 At a later day, Mr. Browning, as a member of the Cabinet of President Johnson, acquitted himself with honor in the discharge of the exacting duties of Secretary of the Interior. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective A brief review of what Mr. Lincoln had done in the field of Reconstruction will give a more accurate knowledge of President Johnson's policy, which afterwards became the subject of prolonged and bitter controversy. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The Constitutionality and effect of this statute were debated on the trial of President Johnson. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Mrs. Storer was President Johnson's other daughter, and the widowed mother of young children. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis The examination by Mr. Eldridge was in the nature of cross-examination and for the purpose of gaining an admission from General Grant that he had advised or sanctioned President Johnson's plan of reconstruction. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 Articles of impeachment, for "high crimes and misdemeanors," were presented by the House of Representatives against President Johnson in 1868. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective In excuse, or at least in explanation, of this unfortunate blunder on the part of Southern men, the obstinacy and wrong-headed course of President Johnson must be pleaded. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 It continued to be acted upon till the time of President Johnson. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The impeachment of President Johnson was loudly demanded by Wade, Butler, Thad. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis General Grant's testimony is explicit upon these points: He advised President Johnson to grant a pardon to General Lee and a pardon to General Johnston. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 Mr. Evarts was counsel for President Johnson in his famous arraignment before the Senate, sitting as a High Court of Impeachment. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective The first was called by the friends of President Johnson to meet in Philadelphia on the 14th of August. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 He rose sometimes to a very lofty eloquence, as witness especially his argument in defence of President Johnson. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 President Johnson, with an equally unfortunate want of reticence, denounced Congress, and finally again issued an order removing Mr. Stanton and appointing Adjutant-General Thomas Secretary of War. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis If President Johnson intended to enforce the plan upon the country he concealed his purpose when the North Carolina proclamation was under consideration. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 He served his regiment so faithfully and gained such a reputation that President Johnson commissioned him a Chaplain in the regular service of the United States Army. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro A large majority of the delegates composing the convention were well-known Democrats, and they were re-enforced by some prominent Republicans, who had left their party and followed the personal fortunes of President Johnson. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 He was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the eighth district by President Lincoln on August 26, 1862, and gave way to a successor appointed by President Johnson, September 14, 1866. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 President Johnson was by nature and temperament squarely disposed toward justice and the right, but he could not resist the concerted appeals made to him by the dominant whites at the South. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis He favored the governments which President Johnson had organized and he expressed the opinion that they were acceptable to the people generally. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 A year passed before President Johnson in answer to the wife's desperate pleading permitted her to visit her husband in prison. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis It was known that President Johnson was deeply offended by the indirect refusal of the House to pass any resolution in the remotest degree approving his course. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 |
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