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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lyndon Baines Johnson and the uses of power. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988 (OCoLC)580706638 Online version: Lyndon Baines Johnson and the uses of power. New York : Greenwood Press, 1988 (OCoLC)607219904 |
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| Named Person: | Lyndon B Johnson; Lyndon B Johnson |
| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernard J Firestone; Robert C Vogt |
| ISBN: | 0313263957 9780313263958 |
| OCLC Number: | 17807503 |
| Notes: | "Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University." Papers from a conference on the Johnson presidency held in April 1986. |
| Description: | xvii, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction. LBJ : The strength of a giant / Tom Wicker -- Part I. The great society and war on poverty -- Strategies for governance : Domestic policy making in the Johnson administration / Michael R. Reopel and Lance W. Bardsley -- Medicare : Hallmark of the great society / Sheri I. David -- The war on poverty : Two decades later / Attiat F. Ott and Paul Hughes-Cromwick -- Untangling the mess : The administrative legacy of President Johnson / Marlan Blissett -- Failure of nerve : How the liberals killed liberalism / Michael P. Riccards -- The great society then and now : A panel discussion -- Part II. Equal justice and the judiciary -- "To write it in the books of law" : President Lyndon B. Johnson and the civil rights act of 1964 / Robert D. Loevy -- Lyndon, La Raza, and paradox of Texas history / Julie Leininger Pycior -- LBJ and Supreme Court politics in the light of history / David M. O'Brien -- Abe Fortas : Presidential advisor / Bruce Murphy -- Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights revolution : A panel discussion -- Part III. Economic policy --tLBJ, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the burden of New Deal liberalism / Donald K. Pickens -- Lyndon B. Johnson and the 1964-1968 revenue acts : Congressional politics and "fiscal chickens coming home to roost" / Phillip M. Simpson -- The Vietnam War and inflation revisited / Tom Riddell -- Lyndon Johnson and the limits of American resources / John E. Ullmann -- Part IV. Foreign policy and diplomacy -- Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson : The Formosa and Middle East resolutions / Thomas M. Gaskin -- Lyndon Johnson as diplomat in chief / Elmer Pischke -- Part V. Vietnam -- The Johnson presidency and foreign policy : The unresolved conflict between national interest and collective security / Kenneth W. Thompson -- Tonkin Gulf revisited : Vietnam, military mirage, and political reality in 1964 / William F. Levantrosser -- President-press interaction : Media influence on the Johns Hopkins address / Kathleen J. Turner -- "In what direction are we going in Vietnam?" The U.S. Senate, Lyndon Johnson, and the Vietnam War, 1964-65 / Philip J. Avillo, Jr. -- The Vietnam War in perspective : A panel discussion -- Epilogue : Second thoughts / Bill D. Moyers. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in political science, no. 221.; [Hofstra University's cultural and intercultural studies]. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Bernard J. Firestone and Robert C. Vogt. |
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