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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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List of Illustrations | |
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Introduction: Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism | |
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"The Perfect Roosevelt Man": Young Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1948 | |
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From the Hill Country to Capitol Hill | |
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The New Deal | |
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The Best Congressman a District Ever Had | |
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Money and Politics, Texas-Sized | |
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Democratic Leader: Senator Johnson, 1948-1960 | |
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Shifting Right: Cold War Liberalism | |
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"E = LBJ": The Senate Leader | |
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Becoming a National Figure: The Leader and the Issues | |
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"Let Us Continue": LBJ and the Kennedy Legacy, 1960-1964 | |
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The Vice President | |
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Years of Frustration: JFK and the Liberal Agenda | |
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"Let Us Continue": The Transition | |
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President in His Own Right | |
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The Great Society | |
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Johnsonian Liberalism | |
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Chief Legislator | |
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The Not-So-Great Society: Implementing LBJ's Program | |
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Assessing the Great Society | |
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Shall We Overcome? LBJ and the Civil Rights Revolution | |
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"We Shall Overcome": The Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
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Fire in the Streets | |
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A New and Bewildering Stage: Toward Affirmative Action | |
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LBJ and Civil Rights | |
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"That Bitch of a War": LBJ and Vietnam | |
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"A Fat, Juicy Worm": The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1963 137 Americanizing the War, 1963-1965 | |
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"Lyndon Johnson's War" | |
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The Credibility Gap and the Home Front | |
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"No More Vietnams" | |
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Dumping Johnson: The Decline and Fall of American Liberalism | |
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Guns, Butter, and Stagflation | |
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The End of the Johnson Era | |
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The Documents | |
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"Let Us Continue": Johnson Assumes the Presidency | |
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The Kennedy Legacy: LBJ's First Speech as President | |
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Address before a Joint Session of the Congress, November 27, 1963 | |
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The Warren Commission: Johnson Applies "The Treatment" to Senator Russell | |
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Phone Conversation, November 29, 1963, 8:55 p.m. | |
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Shaping the Debate: LBJ Persuades Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham | |
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Phone Conversation, December 2, 1963, 11:10 a.m. | |
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Perspectives on the Great Society | |
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Launching the Great Society | |
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Remarks at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964 | |
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"A Time for Choosing": A Conservative Criticizes Johnsonian Liberalism | |
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Address on Behalf of Senator Goldwater, October 27, | |
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A Poverty Warrior Defends the Great Society | |
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How Great Was the Great Society? 1986 | |
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A Conservative Thinker Assails the Great Society | |
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From Wealth and Poverty, 1981 | |
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Poverty: The Statistical Record | |
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Persons below Poverty Level and below 125 Percent of Poverty Level: 1959-2002 | |
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Racial Conflict and the Civil Rights Revolution | |
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"We Shall Overcome": The Voting Rights Speech | |
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The American Promise: Special Message to the Congress, March 15, 1965 | |
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A New Militance in Black America | |
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"We Must Be in a Position of Power": Address before the CORE National Convention, July 1, 1965 | |
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From Civil Rights to Affirmative Action | |
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"To Fulfill These Rights": Commencement Address at Howard University, June 4, 1965 | |
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War at Home and Abroad: Martin Luther King Jr. Opposes the Vietnam War | |
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"Beyond Vietnam": Speech at Riverside Church Meeting, April 4, 1967 | |
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Vietnam | |
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LBJ Outlines His War Aims | |
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Peace without Conquest: Address at Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965 | |
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Johnson Agonizes over Vietnam | |
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Phone Conversation, May 27, 1964, 10:55 a.m. | |
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The Decision to Escalate: 1965 | |
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From A Very Human President, July 1965 | |
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We Can Win in Vietnam: Hawks Criticize LBJ's Strategy | |
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What Is the President Waiting For? June 28, 1966 | |
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The Student Left Opposes LBJ | |
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"The Incredible War": Speech at the Washington Antiwar March, April 17, 1965 | |
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The Establishment Bows Out: Walter Cronkite Calls the War a Stalemate | |
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Mired in Stalemate, February 27, 1968 | |
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The End of Liberalism | |
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LBJ Insists on Guns and Butter | |
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Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 12, 1966 | |
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The Liberal Coalition Breaks Up | |
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Speech at Madison Square Garden, October 24, 1968 | |
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Appendixes | |
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An LBJ Chronology (1908-1975) | |
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Questions for Consideration | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Index | |