Read more Lyndon Johnson stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1545/lyndon-johnson.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:55:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/67533/is-obamas-afghanistan-turning-into-lbjs-vietnam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs the war in Afghanistan rages alongside President Obama’s sweeping domestic battles, he’s keenly aware of the dangers of becoming a modern-day LBJ, an insider tells the New York Times. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program at home was dogged by the Vietnam war, a historian says; Obama must “worry about...http://www.newser.com/story/67533/is-obamas-afghanistan-turning-into-lbjs-vietnam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 23 Aug 2009 9:23:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63925/mcnamara-palin-share-lousy-exit-strategies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe governor of Alaska and the architect of the Vietnam War both make fine examples of how not to quit a government post, David Broder writes in the Washington Post. Robert McNamara waited 28 years to explain that he stepped down as defense secretary because of his grave doubts about...http://www.newser.com/story/63925/mcnamara-palin-share-lousy-exit-strategies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 09 Jul 2009 8:19:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63729/rot-in-hell-mr-mcnamara.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt long last, Robert Strange McNamara has “shuffled off to join LBJ and Dick Nixon in the 7th level of hell,” writes journalist and author Joseph Galloway, who couldn’t be more pleased. “McNamara was the original bean-counter—a man who knew the cost of everything but the worth of nothing....http://www.newser.com/story/63729/rot-in-hell-mr-mcnamara.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Jul 2009 7:32:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59837/rnc-recycles-lbj-daisy-ad-to-bash-obama-on-gitmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRNC chairman Michael Steele has rolled out an ad remixing an LBJ classic on nuclear war to warn about the danger of closing Guantanamo. The infamous 1964 spot used images of a little girl plucking petals off a daisy juxtaposed with a nuclear explosion to illustrate the risk of Armageddon....http://www.newser.com/story/59837/rnc-recycles-lbj-daisy-ad-to-bash-obama-on-gitmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 22 May 2009 10:39:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52251/obamas-plans-require-a-lot-more-hands.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama’s ambitious budget and stimulus plans will require the government to hire scores of new workers, the Washington Post reports. Analysts put the number between 100,000 and 250,000 spread among various agencies, the biggest expansion of the federal workforce since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society days. Some agencies...http://www.newser.com/story/52251/obamas-plans-require-a-lot-more-hands.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Mar 2009 8:57:09 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/51832/conservatives-must-obstruct-and-delay-obama-kristol.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe “day of reckoning” has come for Republicans, writes William Kristol in the Washington Post . On Tuesday, President Obama delivered “the most unabashedly liberal and big-government speech” since Lyndon Johnson, and seems poised to undo the whole Reagan agenda. “Conservatives can’t win politically right now,” says Kristol. Their only hope...http://www.newser.com/story/51832/conservatives-must-obstruct-and-delay-obama-kristol.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 26 Feb 2009 11:57:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/51561/lone-star-political-clout-rides-into-sunset.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe booming voices of Texas politics have, for the first time in half a century, fallen silent, writes Bryan Burrough in the Washington Post . After vast deposits of oil wealth propelled Lone Star personalities like LBJ and both Bushes to the White House, as well as several influential leaders like...http://www.newser.com/story/51561/lone-star-political-clout-rides-into-sunset.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Feb 2009 10:13:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/51220/hoovers-fbi-launched-gay-probe-on-valenti.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBefore his long presidency of the Motion Picture Association of America, Jack Valenti served as a top White House aide to LBJ. Recently declassified files show that, at the same time, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was investigating whether Valenti, who died in 2007, was gay. Although no proof...http://www.newser.com/story/51220/hoovers-fbi-launched-gay-probe-on-valenti.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Feb 2009 6:31:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50250/lbj-biographer-aims-for-eternity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLyndon Johnson's biographer takes his work seriously—so much so, he didn't cover LBJ's presidency for 30 years, Newsweek reports. Rising from the tabloid world in the 1960s, Robert Caro first wrote a painstaking biography of New York mogul Robert Moses. Next came a volume on LBJ's youth; Caro even...http://www.newser.com/story/50250/lbj-biographer-aims-for-eternity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 08 Feb 2009 18:56:17 CST