Tag Archives: LBJ
Winning Isn’t Enough. The Next President Needs to be a Doer.
We think what it takes to shake up Washington is an outsider with new ideas, but what’s needed is an insider with strong convictions.
The next president will have a lot to do. Each and every executive agency, down to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will need a deep cleanin...Read More
‘Life Was Her Art’: Nadine Eckhardt Remembered as an Influential Cultural Conduit in Texas and Washington
A lifelong progressive activist, Eckhardt always managed to straddle both the establishment and counterculture.
Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, first wife and muse of novelist Billy Lee Brammer (The Gay Place) and second wife of Texas Democratic Congressman Robert C. Eckhardt, d...Read More
Leaving the Gay Place Lights a Candle for the Patron Saint of Austin’s Counterculture
Tracy Daugherty’s new biography of The Gay Place author Billy Lee Brammer is part poetic ode, part oral history — and always a wild ride.
The greatest novel ever written about Austin was penned by a man from Dallas, and it did not mention the capital city by name. Still, when Billy Lee Brammer’s...Read More
ZACH Theatre’s ‘The Great Society’ Lectures More Than it Entertains
By sticking too close to history, Robert Schenkkan gives LBJ a pass.
'The Great Society' focuses on the events that defined LBJ’s presidency: Selma-to-Montgomery marches; the budget fights to fund Great Society programs; the hu...Read More
Visiting the LBJ Library in the Shadow of Selma
Hollywood has tended to find LBJ more useful as a villain than a hero—even when dramatizing domestic victories like the Voting Rights Act....Read More
LBJ Library’s Civil Rights Summit: Worthy Remembrances, Missed Opportunities
The LBJ Library's efforts to burnish Johnson's legacy is a worthy one—but not a great deal was said about today's civil rights struggles at the Civil Rights S...Read More
Lady Bird’s Words
In case you missed it in the magazine’s February issue, here’s a pointer to Observer contributor Robert Leleux’s review of Lady Bird Johnson: ...Read More
Santa Rita Courts and the Fight for Affordable Public Housing
The increasing need for affordable housing is readily apparent in Texas. ...Read More