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The JFK-UFO Connection: Bogus Documents or Unanswered Questions?

Do you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here's one for you. And it's ongoing, so we don't yet know the ending. It involves President John F. Kennedy's interest in UFOs shortly before his death and an allegation that he may have angered officials in his administration when he asked for information on the...

Opinion: What's So Bad About Earmarks?

(Nov. 16) -- Few words are dirtier in Washington than "earmark." Soon-to-be House Speaker John Boehner has vowed to ban them. President Barack Obama has called for earmark reform. The chairmen of the president's debt commission say the practice should be eliminated. And on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,...

Agent Was 'Chillingly Close' to Shooting LBJ

(Oct. 20) -- In a striking admission sure to stoke the imaginations of conspiracy theorists everywhere, a former Secret Service agent reveals how he came "chillingly close" to shooting President Lyndon B. Johnson right outside his home just hours after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. So reads "The Kennedy Detail: JFK's...

Opinion: WikiLeaks Is Afghan Version of Pentagon Papers

(July 26) -- The similarities cannot be overlooked. President Lyndon Johnson did not start America's involvement in Vietnam -- John F. Kennedy did that -- but Johnson inherited a war and then escalated it. So, too, with President Barack Obama and Afghanistan. And then, as now, it didn't take the leaking of classified...

Washington Hilton: 45 Years of History

WASHINGTON (March 25) -- Lyndon Johnson walked in unannounced to a cocktail party of 2,000 people. The first President Bush asked for an opinion on a bill passed that day in Congress. Yankee slugger Joe DiMaggio autographed a baseball. Film director Alfred Hitchcock drew his famous profile on a piece of paper. "They've...

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Howard Steven Friedman: When Did Americans Stop Naming Babies After the President?

Parents often struggle with selecting baby names.

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Obama: The Black LBJ

In the hyper-political circles I travel in, the release of Robert Caro's latest Lyndon Johnson biography, The Passage of Power , was received with the glee that's usually reserved for an Obama rally.

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Brooke Gladstone: PHOTOS: 9 Striking Presidential Campaign Posters

In the early nineteenth century, many Americans still remembered firsthand the oppression of royal rule.

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Brooke Gladstone: 9 Striking Presidential Campaign Posters (PHOTOS)

In the early nineteenth century, many Americans still remembered firsthand the oppression of royal rule.

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Robert Caro 'Passage Of Power' Excerpt

The following is an excerpt from Chapter One of Robert Caro's fourth volume on Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Passage of Power."

Lyndon Johnson News From the Web

05/29/12 David Brooks: Our government sacrifices innovation at... Source: Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek CA From the dawn of the republic, the federal government has played a vital role in American economic life.
05/29/12 The history of Memorial Day Source: The Daily Southerner - Tarboro NC Today is Memorial Day. It is the day officially set aside to honor those men and women who have died in service to our nation.
05/29/12 Reader recommendation: The Passage of Power Source: The Christian Science Monitor Robert A. Caro 's The Passage of Power is the fourth book of his continuing biographical work, "The Years of Lyndon Johnson."
05/28/12 5 Reasons you should specialize right now Source: Brazen Careerist We are in a drought that is crop failure.
05/24/12 Ghost Of Breitbart Convinced That Obama Will Drop Out... Source: Wonkette Breitbart hologram Mike Flynn has been feeling the warm breeze of change that causes the flag of America to gently billow across his cheek, and also has been sifting through the history books, poring over some of the most improbable scenarios that have ever befallen America, and has decided that because history repeats itself, as long as that history is conservative-leaning, President Obama is completely going to drop out of the race the way Lyndon B. Johnson did in 1968, so weakened was LBJ by Senator McCarthy's presidential efforts (which turned out so well)!

Background on Lyndon Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963).

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