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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.-Lyndon B. Johnson (http://wiseone.dbelement.com)
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“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
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A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. -Lyndon B. Johnson #quote
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Lyndon B. Johnson, Presiden AS ke-36 : “Apabila dua orang selalu sepakat dalam segala hal, itu berarti cuma satu orang yang berpikir.”
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Analysis: Bernanke's Senate fight may undercut Fed
WASHINGTON - Ben Bernanke survived a Senate battle, bruised. The question is whether the Federal Reserve was scarred, too.
The state of the State of the Union
…speech. … On the other hand, it’s a state occasion — it’s become a great ceremony. I think this happened mainly when Lyndon Johnson decided to move it from noon until evening … in 1965. And suddenly, instead of the kind of speech for the well-informed…
CAPITAL CULTURE: Critics assess Obama's speeches
…were made by Jeff Shesol, David Frum and Harry C. McPherson, who wrote speeches for presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Lyndon Johnson, respectively.”The speech he made in Cairo — I remember the intelligence, the breadth and the reasonableness,” McPherson…
Grammy-winning pianist Earl Wild dies at 94
…and wrote music for comedian Sid Caesar for three years and performed for six American presidents, from Herbert Hoover to Lyndon Johnson.During the 2005 interview, Wild vowed never to stop being active.”When people are alive and they are able to do something,…
Today in History
…1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, legalized abortions using a trimester approach. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at age 64.In 1995, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.In…
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Obama effectively ends U.S.-manned space flight
…that would be better spent on welfare.” If Democrats were smart, they’d ignore Mondale in favor of their flawed forebear, Lyndon Johnson, who said “I do not believe that this generation of Americans is willing to resign itself to going to bed each night by…
Unconstitutionality and the health care bill
…a hearing before a committee, for example, or an amendment would be brought up for a vote; that was how it was done. President Lyndon Johnson, one of the most talented arm twisters, told a certain congressman that a personal visit from the president, “and…
Obama's Right Stuff
…Oct. 25, 2007 editorial titled “Lyndon Baines Bush,” we noted that George W. Bush was the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson - and that was before the numerous bailouts he authorized. “(T)he damage to the nation has been … immense,” we wrote. That…
UPDATE: Jimmy Booker’s passing
…first name relationships with. In 1966, he took his family to Washington, DC, as he was hired as a consultant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, and in 1968 He returned to Harlem, and opened up his own public relations business on 527 Madison Avenue, “James E….
Cambodia's Past, Pakistan's Future?
…and Iraq against small forces of lightly-armed insurgents bear little resemblance to the large-scale war that Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon waged against both southern revolutionary guerrillas and the military of North Vietnamese leader Ho…
Quotes from around the Web
I have a strong feeling that Congress should pass a law that no president can take the nation to war or keep the nation at war unless he estimates the casualties.
I think the Congress, particularly with respect to war, should play a greater role than it does … In some way, the Congress should retain a lasting and a continuing interest in war.—Robert McNamara, Austin American-Statesman
There are limitations on what the secretary can say publicly … you don't just tell your own people, you tell the enemy. … You don't want the enemy being told … that the senior officials believe the U.S. is losing.—Robert McNamara, Austin American-Statesman
We don't have the debate and we don't ask the necessary how-strong-is-the-adversary question
Not to press the study of the prospects of success, of one side's strength and one side's weakness, especially in 1965. Not to examine what could be done to make the best of a bad business while not escalating.
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