Democracy Dies in Darkness
Opinion

WHAT A REAL PRESIDENT WAS LIKE

TO LYNDON JOHNSON, THE GREAT SOCIETY MEANT HOPE AND DIGNITY

WHILE Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of time and place, he felt the

bitter paradox of both. I was a young man on his staff in 1960 when he

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