2021年1月11日 · Many were hoping for an aspirational pick to match JFK — a young, charismatic, and promising politician. But at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in July, it was 51-year-old Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson who would emerge on the ticket with JFK.

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, while distinct in their leadership styles and personalities, were both instrumental in shaping mid-20th century America. Their combined tenures witnessed groundbreaking domestic achievements …

2011年9月8日 · President John F. Kennedy was so "worried for the country" about the prospect that Vice President Lyndon Johnson might succeed him as president that he'd begun having private conversations about who should become the Democratic Party's standard-bearer in 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy recalled in a series of oral-history interviews recorded in early 1...

2019年7月5日 · Robert Kennedy's dislike of LBJ dates back to before they even met (in 1953), and probably started with the latter's humiliating (for the Kennedy family) re-telling of the removal (in 1940) of RFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, as ambassador to the UK.

It is the secret history of Lyndon Johnson’s private wars with his Texas constituency, with the Kennedy family, with public opinion, and with himself

What types of issues did Kennedy and Johnson have to deal with in the sixties? 1. Cold War. 2. Civil Rights protests, riots. 3. Vietnam. 4. Social upheaval – drug culture, rebellion, rock and roll.

2008年9月2日 · Johnson comes across as a bombastic, opportunistic Texas Senator who found himself trapped into taking the Vice-Presidential nomination after he realized that being Senate Majority Leader under a President John F. Kennedy wouldn't be quite as powerful as he would have liked it to be. Nixon, meanwhile, comes across the worst of all.

2019年12月18日 · It was the election that would ultimately give America Camelot and its tragic aftermath, a momentous contest when three giants who each would have a chance to shape the nation battled to win the presidency. Award-winning author Pietrusza chronicles the pivotal 1960 presidential race. Obscured text due to sticker attached.

In his book he recounts the presidential campaign and election of 1960 from the contest for the Democratic nomination between John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to the presidential election ...

2008年9月1日 · Pietrusza examines the candidates’ manifold personal shortcomings, flaws either unseen or at least unspoken by White, including JFK’s dangerous philandering and even more dangerous health, LBJ’s curious blend of bullying cowardice and vanity, and Nixon’s deep resentments and insecurities.