100days.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/13/2009
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Lyndon Johnson tried to give his nation guns and butter. In the end, he provided neither.
washingtonpost.com - 3/17/2009
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The way President Bush whisked through Vietnam --
oh, if only we had done the same 40...
years ago -- it seemed as if he was feeling an obvious parallel with the war in Iraq . His aides, who somehow lose IQ points by mere proximity to the commander in ...
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Richard Cohen - The Lingo Of Vietnam
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Historian Dallek To BHO: Don't Be Another LBJ
TPMCafe —
... immigration reform, consumer protection) than most Presidents do in eight. Nonetheless, Vietnam essentially ended his Presidency in November 1966 when, just two years after his unprecedented landslide, he lost 47 House seats and effective control of Congress.
Had it not been for Vietnam, Johnson would not have had just three years to transform America but ten (he would have run and been re-elected in 1968). Vietnam destroyed everything.
The lesson is rather obvious. Read Dallek.
Remainders: 2012 today
Ben Smith's Blog —
... congressman interested in birth certificates, is ripe for a challenge.
Phil Singer calls the DNC's Sanford spot "2012 today."
Summers backs EFCA.
First Read says Steele's in more trouble than Dean was.
Fox whacks him.
Michael Lind finds Obama timid.
A great Mike Allen scoop: Obama reassures travel executives that he's not anti-meeting.
Hillary types fundraise for Macker.
Robert Dallek compares Afghanistan and Vietnam.
Bob Bauer likes the ...
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