Hints and tips:
...The most salient example of a sitting president declining to run for a second term was Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1968....
...Had Vice-president Humphrey shown some mettle and opposed President Lyndon B Johnson’s bombing of North Vietnam, he might well have won the general election....
...Texan Lyndon Johnson (1964) still holds the record for the highest percentage of the popular vote of any candidate since the turn of the 20th century, and his two Democratic successors, Georgian Jimmy Carter...
...Harris is about as good a politician as she will ever be, which mightn’t be quite good enough....
...Vice-president Kamala Harris would be Biden’s most natural successor, but her approval ratings are also low....
...An isolated Lyndon Baines Johnson was routinely mocked by John Kennedy’s aides. The job is almost designed to make its occupant look redundant....
...Before that was Richard Nixon’s heavy defeat of George McGovern in 1972 and Lyndon Johnson’s crushing of Barry Goldwater in 1964. Such sweeps no longer occur....
...Vice-president Kamala Harris, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cabinet rookie Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Congressional “squad”: all incur reflex suspicions....
...Lyndon Johnson pushed through landmark civil rights legislation, but also further enmeshed the US in the Vietnam war. Voters should look for hints of these same independent streaks on Wednesday night....
...The upper chamber of Congress is split, 50-50, between Democrats and Republicans, with vice-president Kamala Harris able to cast a tiebreaking vote....
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...A better analogy would be to 1963, when Lyndon Johnson became president after the assassination of John F Kennedy....
...Would Roosevelt, or Lyndon Johnson see echoes of themselves in his reform agenda? That is open to debate....
...“My goddaughter, my daughter, my granddaughter all like Bernie,” says Ms Harris. Ms Price adds that her daughter is supporting “Bernie”....
...It is no coincidence that many liberal Democrats want someone like Kamala Harris, a talented mixed race senator from California, to be their party’s nominee against Mr Trump in 2020....
...Sanders is the most popular current politician in the US, according to a Harvard-Harris survey in April for American political website The Hill....
...What emerges from his studiously documented book is how much the bill’s success depended on backroom dealmaking in Congress as well as the support of President Lyndon Johnson and civil rights leader Martin...
...Ed Emmett is a Republican county judge in Harris County, which has a population of 4.2m....
...Along with another tract of the time, A Texan Looks at Lyndon, it was pretty representative of how the old cold war hard-right thought....
...It is run by Australians Ross Lyndon-James and Brian Harcourt, serial entrepreneurs and floaters of small companies for more than two decades....
...Perhaps he's just upset at missing a jaunt to Washington with his colleagues in the Tory H-Block, Roger Helmer and Chris Heaton-Harris....
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