Great American Presidents Lyndon B Johnson 2nd Edition by Tony Kaye ISBN 9781438144887

Part One: Introduction: Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism

Chapter 1. “The Perfect Roosevelt Man”: Young Lyndon Johnson, 1908–1948

From the Hill Country to Capitol Hill

The New Deal

The Best Congressman a District Ever Had

Money and Politics, Texas-Sized

Notes

Chapter 2. Democratic Leader: Senator Johnson, 1948–1960

Shifting Right: Cold War Liberalism

“E = LBJ”: The Senate Leader

Becoming a National Figure: The Leader and the Issues

Notes

Chapter 3. “Let Us Continue”: LBJ and the Kennedy Legacy, 1960–1964

The Vice President

Years of Frustration: JFK and the Liberal Agenda

“Let Us Continue”: The Transition

President in His Own Right

Notes

Chapter 4. The Great Society

Johnsonian Liberalism

Chief Legislator

The Not-So-Great Society: Implementing LBJ’s Program

Assessing the Great Society

Notes

Chapter 5. Shall We Overcome? LBJ and the Civil Rights Revolution

“We Shall Overcome”: The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Fire in the Streets

A New and Bewildering Stage: Toward Affirmative Action

LBJ and Civil Rights

Notes

Chapter 6. “That Bitch of a War”: LBJ and Vietnam

“A Fat, Juicy Worm”: The United States and Vietnam, 1945–1963

Americanizing the War, 1963–1965

“Lyndon Johnson’s War”

The Credibility Gap and the Home Front

“No More Vietnams”

Notes

Chapter 7. Dumping Johnson: The Decline and Fall of American Liberalism

Guns, Butter, and Stagflation

The End of the Johnson Era

Notes

Part Two: The Documents

“Let Us Continue”: Johnson Assumes the Presidency

The Kennedy Legacy: LBJ’s First Speech as President

1. Lyndon B. Johnson, Address before a Joint Session of the Congress, November 27, 1963

The Warren Commission: Johnson Applies “The Treatment” to Senator Russell

2. Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Russell, Phone Conversation, November 29, 1963, 8:55 p.m.

Shaping the Debate: LBJ Persuades Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham

3. Lyndon B. Johnson and Katherine Graham, Phone Conversation, December 2, 1963, 11:10 a.m.

Perspectives on the Great Society

Launching the Great Society

4. Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1964

“A Time for Choosing”: A Conservative Criticizes Johnsonian Liberalism

5. Ronald Reagan, Address on Behalf of Senator Goldwater, October 27, 1964

A Poverty Warrior Defends the Great Society

6. Joseph A. Califano Jr., How Great Was the Great Society? 1986

A Conservative Thinker Assails the Great Society

7. George Gilder, From Wealth and Poverty, 1981

Poverty: The Statistical Record

8. U.S. Census Bureau, Persons below Poverty Level and below 125 Percent of Poverty Level: 1959–2002

Racial Conflict and the Civil Rights Revolution

“We Shall Overcome”: The Voting Rights Speech

9. Lyndon B. Johnson, The American Promise: Special Message to the Congress, March 15, 1965

A New Militance in Black America

10. James Farmer, “We Must Be in a Position of Power”: Address before the CORE National Convention, July 1, 1965

From Civil Rights to Affirmative Action

11. Lyndon B. Johnson, “To Fulfill These Rights”: Commencement Address at Howard University, June 4, 1965

War at Home and Abroad: Martin Luther King Jr. Opposes the Vietnam War

12. Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam”: Speech at Riverside Church Meeting, April 4, 1967

Vietnam

LBJ Outlines His War Aims

13. Lyndon B. Johnson, Peace without Conquest: Address at Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965

Johnson Agonizes over Vietnam

14. Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Russell, Phone Conversation, May 27, 1964, 10:55 a.m.

The Decision to Escalate: 1965

15. Jack Valenti, From A Very Human President, July 1965

We Can Win in Vietnam: Hawks Criticize LBJ’s Strategy

16. James Burnham, What Is the President Waiting For? June 28, 1966

The Student Left Opposes LBJ

17. Paul Potter, “The Incredible War”: Speech at the Washington Antiwar March, April 17, 1965

The Establishment Bows Out: Walter Cronkite Calls the War a Stalemate

18. Walter Cronkite, Mired in Stalemate, February 27, 1968

The End of Liberalism

LBJ Insists on Guns and Butter

19. Lyndon B. Johnson, Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, January 12, 1966

The Liberal Coalition Breaks Up

20. George C. Wallace, Speech at Madison Square Garden, October 24, 1968

Appendixes

An LBJ Chronology (1908–1975)

Questions for Consideration

Suggestions for Further Reading

Acknowledgments