LBJ's Pens and Obama's Peril
Bob Shrum, The Week
One wall of the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas celebrates "the thousand laws" Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, and a showcase proudly displays legions of pens, row upon row, which he used to sign the various measures. Many of the laws were nation-changing in their sweep and impact — for example, the Voting Rights Act, federal aid to education, and Medicare. Some others, full-hearted in intent, were flawed in execution: the War on Poverty was underfunded from the start, starved by the war in Vietnam, and then discarded by Richard Nixon.On balance, the record is a...
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