LYNDON JOHNSON Archive

Nothing To See Here, Keep Moving
We’ve recently seen release of ever more definitive documents showing that nothing happened in the Gulf of Tonkin, despite the use of the “Incident” as Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam War MacGuffin.
Now we learn that the Kennedy Administration’s finest hour, the storied grace under pressure of a wise […]

Get Me Central
Thrilling new tapes from the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library are released, showing his intense identification with Israel.
All well and good, but tales of American presidents and the plucky Jewish State are beginning to get mushy. We’ve had Harry Truman’s recognition of Israel commemorated, a hideous Kennedy memorial defaces the Jerusalem […]

Would That It Were So

George W. Bush’s pet National Archivist Allen Weinstein brought a message of hope to the dreamed of future home of Bush’s Presidential Library , and offered proof of just how differential to power he is.
Weinstein assured the Southern Methodist University commencement crowd […]

Gritty, Urban
Laura Bush has unveiled an exciting new talking point for the Bush Library to come in Dallas:
 

“This will be the first truly urban location for a presidential library “

Meaning what exactly? George will be taking public transportation to work on his memoirs […]

One Man, Our Vote
Greg Grandlin offers a roundup of one interested party’s role in the last twelve presidential elections, and perhaps on his last one.
“Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate” clocks el Lider Maximo’s walk-ons and cameos over five decades.
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