Tag Archives: LBJ

Harvey Wasserman : Honor Dr. King and Bring the Troops Home Now

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with President Lyndon Johnson in the White House, March 1966. Photo by Yoichi Okamoto / Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.Honor Dr. Martin Luther King: Bring the troops home NOW! By Harvey Wasserman / The … Continue reading →

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U.S. Government : Six Decades of Spying on its Citizens

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

It’s a national tradition:Spying on Americans Part One: LBJ and Nixon By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / January 5, 2010 [This is the first installment of Sherman DeBrosse’s series about the U.S. government’s extensive and inglorious history of … Continue reading →

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Life During Wartime : The Great Society

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag BlogThanks to Dr. S.R. Keister /The Rag Blog

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Hey Obama : Ride ’em Cowboy!

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

C’mon Obama,Let’s have a real buildup in Afghanistan! Barack Obama told the nation/‘Have no fear of escalation/I am trying everyone to please…’(With apologies to Tom Paxton) By Richard Lee / The Rag Blog / November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: … Continue reading →

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Harvey Wasserman : Obama’s LBJ Moment

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to tape sent by Captain Charles Robb from Vietnam, July 31, 1968. Photo by Jack Kightlinger / LBJ Library.Obama’s LBJ moment He has inherited from George W. Bush the beginnings of a horrific quagmire. How … Continue reading →

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Texan Creekmore Fath : He Paddled His Own Canoe

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Creekmore Fath with former law partner — and U.S. Congressman — Bob Eckhardt. Photo by Alan Pogue.So Long to the ‘Communist Threat’:Creekmore Fath, last of a generation of progressive activists I met Fath during… future U.S. Sen. Ralph Yarborough’s losing … Continue reading →

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Robert McNamara : Expanding the Imperial Mission

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

LBJ and Robert McNamara. Photo from Dr. X’s Vintage Photos.The hallmark of the McNamara era: Modernization, scientific management, mutually assured destruction The most critical contribution to U.S. imperialism… for which McNamara was a leading advocate, was to foster the belief … Continue reading →

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Ronnie Dugger : LBJ, The Texas Observer and Me

Posted on August 23, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Former Texas Observer editor Ronnie Dugger with President Lyndon Johnson. Photo by Yoichi Yokamoto / Courtesty LBJ Library / Texas Observer.‘None of us knew it yet, but we Americans were about to be trapped in the history that Lyndon Johnson … Continue reading →

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A Progressive Obama? It Takes a Movement.

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

FDR, our most progressive president, had the support of a massive labor movement. Photo courtesy of Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum.Barack Obama: deeply flawed,and it’s our job to make him betterBy Kathy G. Kathy G. is a shrill feminist, … Continue reading →

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