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...But he did tout his recent nomination of Ketanji-Brown Jackson to be the first black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, and called on Congress to confirm her quickly....
...The term New Right came out of the campaign of Republican senator Barry Goldwater when he ran against Lyndon B Johnson in the 1964 presidential campaign....
...The roots of the great inflation stretched back to Lyndon Johnson’s guns-and-butter programme of the mid-1960s....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Julian Jackson’s biography of Charles de Gaulle, A Certain Idea of France....
...The scene in Selma provoked outrage across the US, including within the White House, where Lyndon Johnson was president....
...When former presidential physician Ronny Jackson told the New York Times this week that he had resorted to “putting cauliflower into the mashed potatoes” in order to get Donald Trump to eat more healthily...
...“You’ve got to give everyone a chance,” said Matt Pordage, a scaffolder from the company Lyndon SGB, who was visiting Brixton’s training centre. For him, a criminal record is not the worry....
...US presidents have form in pressing central bank chiefs to hold down rates — George H W Bush and Alan Greenspan, Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker, Lyndon Johnson and William McChesney Martin....
...In his characteristically harsh personal attacks, the current president far exceeds the pressure to lower rates put on the Fed by his predecessors, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon....
...Jackson’s voice gives his words sound and volume, the vivacity of his prose gives him freshness and relevance. Haitian director Raoul Peck won an Oscar nomination for this forcefully eloquent movie....
...In the wake of the weekend’s Jackson Hole conference, where Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen defended the core regulatory architecture put in place after the financial crisis, the market’s attention will...
...Lyndon B Johnson’s library (Austin, Texas, 1971) was designed by corporate behemoths SOM, and is fierce and Brutalist-looking....
...Maybe you can send Lyndon [Johnson] down. He’s almost always free.” Even in the afterlife, JFK must have a pretty tightly booked schedule. Common sense....
...Lyndon Baines Johnson, who became president a century after the civil war, vividly captured its political effects....
...Mastering that skill is, as Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all appreciated, is what truly clever politics is all about....
...He lost re-election to Andrew Jackson, a populist whose whole ethos was a rebuke to the high falutin, but the importance of eloquence to political persuasion continued to flower — in the speeches of the...
...Mrs Clinton should reach out to Mr Sanders, give him some chin time, like Mike Dukakis did with Jesse Jackson back in 1988, and leave it at that....
...Those were heady times, as President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programmes, among them the Voting Rights Act and Medicare for senior citizens, made their way through Congress....
...Abe Fortas, already on the court and Lyndon B. Johnson’s proposed chief justice, was undone by revelations about the company he kept. So were Clement Haynesworth and G....
...(Lyndon Johnson would nearly plagiarise those words introducing the Voting Rights Act of 1965). The gold standard was the millstone that one part of America had set about the neck of the other....
...Before I embarked on my first geocaching expedition with seasoned “cacher” Lyndon Hunt, I had imagined our mission would take us into deepest, darkest countryside....
...“Those tears have to be analysed,” said Mr Jackson, who, like his father, has endorsed Mr Obama....
...Indeed, to compare Mr Obama’s candidacy with Mr Jackson’s ignores an idealism embodied by Mr Obama that race, in the words of the scholar Shelby Steele, is but a negligible human difference, while Mr Jackson...
...Or consider the election of 1828, in which surrogates for John Quincy Adams called Andrew Jackson’s wife a bigamist and his mother a prostitute. And that was before television....
...The drive wends along the Ocoee River through the Cherokee National Forest and the airport, served by major carriers, is a user-friendly alternative to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International....
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