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The sheer scale of the Biden agenda finds an analog in the early achievements of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. But which of those offers the better insight into what's happening now?
To illustrate the challenge facing our current president, it may be helpful to compare him to the two most successful liberal presidents in American history: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B ...
In the first 19 months of his presidency, President Joe Biden’s accomplishments echo themes and priorities from the major initiatives of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer. Franklin D. Roosevelt started an affair with his wife’s social secretary, Lucy Mercer, much before he became President. ... Lyndon B. Johnson and Alice Glass.
In her new book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explores the trajectories of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon ...
Facing a crowded special election with seven other Democratic candidates, Johnson’s strategy was to parrot everything a very popular President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported, including his ...
Historians on Franklin D. Roosevelt Historians spoke about Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency and way in which he used the White House throughout his presidenc… December 1, 2008 ...
Historians on Lyndon B. Johnson Historians spoke about Lyndon Johnson’s White House and related several anecdotes about President Johnson’s activities i… December 1, 2008 ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s legacy of a Great Society has been largely overshadowed by his ... No president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early 1930s had enjoyed such political ...
Johnson became a leader of the congressional aides, a dedicated supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt (who became president a year after Johnson began work in the House), and the head of the Texas ...