Lyndon B. Johnson, Portrait of a President

… this biography follows Johnson, the “human dynamo,” from the Texas hill country to the White House. We see LBJ, in the House and the Senate, whirl his way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging, demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly successful congressional career. Then, in the White House, we see Johnson as
the visionary leader who worked his will on Congress like no president before or since, enacting a range of crucial legislation, from Medicare and environmental protection to the most significant advances in civil rights for black Americans ever achieved. And we see the depth of Johnson’s private anguish as he became increasingly ensnared in Vietnam…

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  • twitter .com/Fjwilson76/status/1495967455285497860 (‘ Tricky Dick sabotaging the president’s peace plan…
    Politics is so dirty. 🤮 ‘)
  • twitter .com(‘ Why do you think voting rights are still controversial nearly 60 years after Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act? See what it took to get the landmark law passed in the new CNN Original Series, LBJ: Triumph and Tragedy starting tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT #LBJSeries ‘)
  • twitter .com/courts_decision/status/1494639606867845123 (‘  video, Let the music hit you!!! … ‘)
  • twitter .com/courts_decision/status/1495753788799520773 (‘ I know you will do the right thing, Texas. #BetoForTexas, #BetoForGovernor ‘)
  • lbjmuseum .com/exhibits/online-exhibits/lyndon-baines-johnson-quotes (‘ We can achieve nothing by lawlessness and divisiveness among the American people. It is only by joining together and only by working together that we can continue to move toward equality and fulfillment for all of our people. I hope that all Americans tonight will search their hearts as they ponder this most tragic incident.” Statement by LBJ on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968  ‘)
  • lbjmuseum .com/exhibits/online-exhibits/lbj-in-cotulla  (‘ …Welhausen School became the primary grade school for Cotulla I.S.D. Vacated as a school during the early 1980s, the building was leased to the South Texas Rural Health Services in 1985. The school became an official state historic landmark in 1990. ‘)
  • twitter .com/BetoORourke/status/1495843194457706499 (‘  video, The story of Cotulla and LBJ  ‘)
  • twitter .com/BetoORourke/status/1495876749640536069 (‘  In 1928, 🧑‍🏫LBJ took a teaching job in Cotulla where he worked with 5th, 6th, and 7th graders at the segregated Mexican American Welhausen School. He was quickly appointed principal as he invested in those students and classrooms. The experience changed his life and our nation. ‘)
  • ratedrv13thenextchapter.blogspot .com/2010_12_01_archive.html?m=1 (‘  Roma, TX. Roma was founded in 1765 and incorporated in 1836. It serves as a port of entry from Mexico into the U.S. via the Roma-Ciudad Miguel Aleman International Bridge. Prior to Texas independence from Mexico in 1836, the town was listed as under the jurisdiction of the town of Mier, Mexico and served under Spanish rule. Many old original buildings still exist, albeit in a state of disrepair… ‘)
  • twitter .com/BetoMedia/status/1495835374496751616 (‘  video, Sunday Scenes in the RGV w/Beto ROMA, TEXAS -1/2 Beto- “There are some goats…just taking a drink. Is that the goat herder behind them?” Amy- “I think so.” Future first couple of Texas Beto & Amy O’Rourke take a look across the scary, DANGEROUS US/Mexico border. #BetoForTexas  ‘)
  • twitter .com/BetoMedia/status/1495835374496751616 (‘  video, Sunday Scenes in the RGV w/Beto ROMA, TEXAS -2/2 Beto- “Really just kind of a beautiful day and a beautiful stretch of the river.” US/Mexico border = tourist attraction? What a pro-business idea.  ‘)
  • twitter .com/SheSePuedeX/status/1495075004819521536 (‘ Viva Beto Viva La Familia! @BetoMedia @BetoORourke #ElPasoCalifornia `)
  • twitter .com/BetoMedia/status/1495783464083537926 (‘  Sunday Scenes in the RGV w/Beto EDINBURG, TEXAS- 1/2 Beto runs across a man who gave him a cap back in 2018. Watch how incredibly touched the man is that Beto not just remembers him, not just still has the cap, but he wears it everyday while running The man knocked on 600 doors  ‘)
  • twitter .com/RioGGuardian/status/1495809202765590530 (‘ Former U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa says he worked well with Beto O’Rourke in Congress, back when they both represented border districts. https://t.co/0r0ZPJ3WYj  , via @BetoORourke ‘)
  • twitter .com/ccano1971/status/1495851804495593483 (‘ Cotulla, TX, La Salle County. LBJ statue. Johnson taught Mexican–American children at the segregated Welhausen School in Cotulla, some 90 miles south of San Antonio in La Salle County. ‘)