Lyndon B. Johnson
Outclassing the Mad Men
Over the last few days, the internet has ooed and aahed over aviral marketing campaignfrom Old Spice. In just two days, a production team and a charming actor named Isaiah Mustafa created183 short videos; instead of paying for TV airtime, Old Spice simply uploaded them to YouTube. It was the kind of bombshell that the […]
Lessons from President Lyndon Johnson’s Time in the Oval Office
Robert Caro is the author of the multi-volume Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, “The Years of Lyndon Johnson.” The most recent installment is entitled “The Passage of Power.” He sat down with The Takeaway’s John Hockenberry to reflect on the unique obstacles and successes President Johnson faced after his election in 1964. Are there lessons for President […]
‘Eve of Destruction’: How 1965 Transformed American History
For President Lyndon Johnson, the year 1965 began in optimism. He won reelection in a landslide against Barry Goldwater in November 1964, and Johnson seized the opportunity the following year. He signed Medicare into law, revitalized elementary and secondary education, and successfully persuaded Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act in the wake of the bloody […]
Nation Building: Obama Echoes Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society
In his speech to the nation last Wednesday, announcing troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, President Obama said we needed to refocus on nation-building here at home. This idea echoes the massive ambitions of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in the 1960s. Johnson’s situation seems to somewhat mirror President Obama’s: Johnson brought us the Civil Rights Act, Medicare and […]
