Posted on 03/09/2014 10:57:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A few days after John F Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon Johnson sat in his kitchen with his key advisers working his first speech to Congress. It was the evening of Kennedy's funeral – Johnson was now president. The nation was still in grief and Johnson, writes Robert Caro in The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, was not yet able to move into the White House because Kennedy's effects were still there.
He had been a hapless vice-president; now he had to both personify and project the transition from bereavement to business as usual. In the midst of the cold war, with Vietnam brewing, the Kennedy administration had been trying to get civil rights legislation and tax cuts through Congress. There was plenty of business to attend to. Johnson's advisers were keen that he introduced himself to the nation as a president who could get things done.
For that reason, writes Caro, they implored him not to push for civil rights in this first speech, since it had no chance of passing. "The presidency has only a certain amount of coinage to expend, and you oughtn't to expend it on this," said "one of the wise, practical people around the table". Johnson, who sat in silence at the table as his aides debated, interjected: "Well, what the hell's the presidency for."(continued)
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Gary Younge
A clue as to where this columnist is coming from:
Guardian pulls Gary Younge article on US racist killing (Zimmerman/Trayvon incident)
http://21centurymanifesto.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/guardian-pulls-gary-younge-article-on-us-racist-killing/
It’s all about making guilty white liberals feel good about themselves.
For all the real estate that exists in his skull, it sure is empty in there!
“What the hell is Obama’s presidency for?”
It’s all about free vacations and golf.
Lining DemocRat cronies pockets. Meet the new DNC ... same as the old DNC.
Since when do presidents have an “ascent”? We’re not a monarch or a theocracy.
“What the hell is Obama’s presidency for?”he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed
"It’s all about free vacations and golf". . . and generally, all about Barak Obama, and nothing to do with keeping faith with the law.
“What the hell is Obama’s presidency for?”he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed
"It’s all about free vacations and golf". . . and generally, all about Barak Obama, and nothing to do with keeping faith with the law.
As a commie, Obama’s only goal is to destroy everything in his path.
One of the lowest times in this country’s history was Lyndon Johnson’s ascendancy to the presidency. We are still bound by his liberal insanity. A more vile power hungry and power abusing individual would be hard to come up with!!!
Wait...I think we managed it!!!!
Judge Jannine Pirro -- "Did Obama Lie His Way into the White House?"
My answer: "Does a bear **** in the woods ?"
Man, I hate it...hate, hate, HATE it when people say this.
I hate it just as much when Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck say it as I do when leftists writing for eurocommie fish wrap say it.
NO...IT...DIDN'T. The only "meaning" it had was that the Republicans were too weak and too corrupt to prevent it.
He truly was a Johnson.
Johnson had nothing on Carter. Good God those were some horrible times. Makes today seem like paradise.
It’s all about ..... over.
The error in the piece is that Barack Hussein Obama is already a lame duck.
What the hell is Obama's presidency for? Ascent had meaning, but now his interventions are too rare
It's the Asendency Of The Moochers And The Grifters.
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