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Article: The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Paraphrasing the U.S. transcendentalists of the 1830s, history students often remind their professors that "the past is a foreign country. People do things differently there." For those old enough to remember the Johnson presidency, much has changed since the 1960s. One of the more obvious changes involves the presidency itself and the country's view of that institution. To contemporary students, the Great Society era of strong-willed, crusading leadership in the White House is truly ancient history. To H. W. Brands, Lyndon Johnson's commitment to aggressive and abrasive foreign policy symbolizes the passing of a political era and of U.S. clout as a world power along with ...