Tag Archives: Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Hooks: Dems are Missing Their Chance to Give Obama His Transformational Legacy
In 2008, Obama said he wanted to create Reaganesque transformational change. Can Clinton do it?
As the Obama presidency ends, his aspiration to fundamentally change the country is the metric by which we should judge his legacy....Read More
HBO’s All the Way Delivers a Kinder, Gentler LBJ
While revealing a gentler, kinder Johnson, Robert Schenkkan fails to acknowledge how harsh and self-interested the Texan president could be....Read More
Texas Needs a Nonviolent Revolution at the Polls
What can one person who cares about others do when our dangerously pivotal Texas needs a nonviolent revolution? Something? Anything?...Read More
From the Archives: LBJ, Civil Rights and the Long March Forward
Four pieces published in the Observer in 1964 that reflect that pivotal year
In conjunction with the Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ School, the Texas Observer is republishing four articles on civil rights from 1964....Read More
From the Archives: The President Is Sworn In
Former United States District Judge Sarah T. Hughes gives a firsthand account of swearing in Lyndon B. Johnson shortly after President Kennedy's assassination i...Read More
Lady Bird in her Own Words
Michael L. Gillette’s Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History chronicles Mrs. Johnson’s journey from deep East Texas to the White house and beyond....Read More