Hints and tips:
...The only comparable election to the coming battle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in 2024 was Trump against Hillary Clinton in 2016....
...The most salient example of a sitting president declining to run for a second term was Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1968....
...An African-American nurse told me she would probably vote for Donald Trump next year because she felt much better off when he was president. What about the future of US democracy?...
...An isolated Lyndon Baines Johnson was routinely mocked by John Kennedy’s aides. The job is almost designed to make its occupant look redundant....
...Powell withstood pressure from the Republicans’ Donald Trump to keep rates low before the pandemic....
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...Of course, Donald Trump would feature heavily in the showdown. But he would get the overwhelming share of the plutocratic loose change....
...Most of wealthy America’s campaign money would be interested in only one thing: ensuring the defeat of the most pro-tax Democratic nominee since Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...It was Lindsey Graham who most memorably summarised the choice between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz at the close of the 2016 Republican primary elections: did voters want to be shot or poisoned?...
...Anne-Marie Slaughter writes that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin want to create a new world order....
...Both Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Baines Johnson could be prone to outbursts, she told National Public Radio, but they found ways to control their temperament....
...Lyndon Baines Johnson, who became president a century after the civil war, vividly captured its political effects....
...“That will definitely appeal more to young people and women,” said Paul Baines, a marketing professor at Cranfield University....
...Lyndon Baines Johnson once telephoned the mother of Panetta’s boss to wish her a happy birthday – a gesture that secured the vote LBJ was seeking. It is impossible to imagine Obama doing such a thing....
...Over Christmas, he urged people to make a gift of David Donald’s Lincoln. George W. Bush, too, likes biographies....
...Donald Berry agrees with Baines’ view....
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