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...Its overall creative direction is handled by architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, based in Shanghai and London....
...The hedge fund home is the state’s wealthiest county and a bastion of fleece vest-wearing, small “c” conservatives....
...decades of economic history might have been quite different if not for Robert McNamara, a cerebral, tightly wired colossus of a figure who, as secretary of defence under President John F Kennedy and later Lyndon...
...Efforts including the Kerner Commission set up by President Lyndon Johnson to study the riots of the 1960s helped to clamp down on overt racial discrimination....
...More than perhaps any president since Lyndon Johnson, he is also a politician who has spent years doing the hard spadework of bipartisan dealmaking. I hate to be overly rabbinic, but if not now, when?...
...Does anyone remember Lyndon Johnson’s first inaugural address? But like Mr Biden, Johnson came to the White House after a life mastering the Senate....
...For something completely different — and utterly absorbing — read Robert Caro’s New Yorker piece on the secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s archives....
...Former presidents have rarely been fond of Federal Reserve interest rate increases — Lyndon Johnson famously once slammed William McChesney Martin against a wall and ordered him to stop raising interest...
...The last time the Democrats won the state was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson achieved a national landslide. Yet that tradition is clashing with the political and economic forces behind Mr Trump....
...“These are the stakes,” intones the then US president, Lyndon Johnson. “We must either love each other or we must die.”...
...She had insisted on still wearing the pink suit during the hasty Dallas inauguration of Lyndon Johnson as president, “to show [the world] what they did” to the man he was succeeding....
...Stefan Rahmstorf tells us that it is exactly 50 years since Lyndon Johnson was presented with the first US government report on the dangers of carbon emissions from fossil fuels....
...That is also what Ronald Reagan, the then governor of California, thought of Medicare, the generous public health system for America’s seniors passed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965....
...The link in the popular imagination between civil disorder and urban poverty was perhaps best expressed in the report of the Kerner Commission, which was appointed by president Lyndon Johnson after rioting...
...“La Belgique — c’est à moi,” he declared to his Italian pupil Paolo Pejrone in an atypical flash of pride....
...US president Lyndon Johnson famously remarked of FBI director J Edgar Hoover that it was “probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in”....
...Two people familiar with the situation said Lion Capital, a UK private equity group led by Lyndon Lea, had asked for repayment of its loan by July 4....
...to ensure there is no violation against the Philippine constitution’s provision against foreign troops and bases in the country. 8) Malaysian democracy The first US president to visit Malaysia since Lyndon...
...From Prof Richard C Thornton....
...Nor did President Lyndon Johnson ask the elderly or the disabled to log on to anything when he launched the Medicare insurance programme. Mr Obama, you can follow in their footsteps....
...Malaysia: First US presidential visit to the moderate Muslim American ally since Lyndon Johnson in 1966....
...Another cautionary parallel is with Barry Goldwater’s failed 1964 Republican bid to defeat Lyndon Johnson – the president who finally brought civil rights to the south....
...If sequestration continues – and it could for years – it is unclear how the programme, once part of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” campaign, will be sustained....
...The chatter gripping Washington these days, however, is the comparison with one president that Mr Obama is unlike, Lyndon Johnson....
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