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Article: Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- December 18, 1995
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WHY A NEW account of Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency? The "facts" have long been known; the documentation is full. Indeed, when LBJ returned to Texas in 1969 after five years in office, most of what was contained in the roughly 2,500 five-drawer filing cabinets he took with him had already consumed the energy of an army of historians.
The simple answer is that Johnson's gargantuan personality, and the massive grip he had on his era, continue to profoundly influence the course of the nation. Every President is important in the continuum of history. But Johnson is special because his dreams for America were Texas-sized, and were matched by the Texas-sized sinkhole into ...