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...A new paper by Thomas Drechsel, from the University of Maryland — ‘Estimating the Effects of Political Pressure on the Fed: A Narrative Approach with New Data’ has taken a look at this dynamic....
...Bush Sr was defeated by Bill Clinton; Thomas Jefferson ejected Adams; Ronald Reagan trounced Carter; and JFK, who was murdered after barely 1,000 days in office, was followed by his vice-president, Lyndon...
...Lenses were to be procured that could shoot in available light (as they would for the majestic Barry Lyndon a few years later)....
...But Tubbs says the US is merely “picking up where the Great Society (Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty) left off”....
...The Voting Rights Act is a landmark law that was enacted by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 during the civil rights movement....
...One of Mr Biden’s biggest regrets from that period — which he later apologised for — involved his role in presiding over the hearings to confirm Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court....
...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?...
...President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, attended her wedding....
...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....
...During his period at Oxford he was a good friend of Thomas Balogh, who advised the Labour government of Harold Wilson in the 1960s....
...The “Great Man” theory that individuals make history happen, first popularised by Thomas Carlyle in the mid 19th century, has life in it yet....
...Thomas Miller, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said he did not expect the majority of Medicaid recipients to be affected by the new requirements....
...In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England, by Keith Thomas, Yale, RRP£25/$34 (May) A new history by the celebrated author of Religion and The Decline of Magic....
...Lyndon B Johnson’s “guns and butter” supported by layers of debt resulted in 1970s stagflation. I wonder how these discredited concepts will turn out this time. Stew Goodwin Cotuit, MA, US...
...Lyndon Baines Johnson, who became president a century after the civil war, vividly captured its political effects....
...The rise of the cosmopolitan metropolis, swollen by immigrants, produced the Populist party of the 1890s, led by Thomas E Watson, champion of the agrarian poor....
...This turned out to be the provocation of convenience that allowed Lyndon Johnson to push through Congressional authorisation to prosecute an undeclared war in Vietnam....
...Lyndon Johnson severed that bond when he committed his noblest deed in signing the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964....
...Mastering that skill is, as Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all appreciated, is what truly clever politics is all about....
...He has been joined at Menhaden by Graham Thomas, a former Goldman Sachs banker who was previously at Lord Jacob Rothschild’s RIT investment trust, and former Credit Suisse and Dresdner Kleinwort financier...
...The democratic left tried vast social projects such as Lyndon B Johnson’s Great Society. But one by one, the big ideas failed....
...It may not be a death spiral, says Lyndon Rive, chief executive of SolarCity, a solar company, but it is a “change spiral”....
...The film Selma, which I have yet to see, has been criticised for its representation of Lyndon Johnson as a wily procrastinator rather than the president who urged Martin Luther King to confront the worst...
...Lyndon Rive, a serial entrepreneur who emigrated to California from his native South Africa, had become bored by his business software company, and was looking for something to do next....
...Jonathan Foyle is chief executive of World Monuments Fund Britain Photographs: Thomas Hoepker; Alamy; Danita Delimont/Alamy; Frank Sanchis III...
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