Obama, like LBJ, has called for swift legislation to tighten the collar on assault weapons.
Under Reagan federal sending averaged 22% of GDP, and that was higher than the 19% average under LBJ-Nixon-Ford-Carter.
So I put the question to Baron Skidelsky, who is to Keynes what Robert Caro is to LBJ.
Mr. Obama chose to see the government he inherited and grow it faster than any President since LBJ.
The Kennedy-LBJ-Nixon-Ford tandem took more than a decade to get out of Vietnam.
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Ms. SHERRI GREENBERG (LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas): He could be the Ralph Nader of this election.
After the three Eisenhower recessions of 1953, 1957-58, and 1960, the JFK-LBJ years of 1961-1969 saw growth at 4.8% annually.
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In 1965, LBJ was fresh off his landslide victory against Arizona Sen.
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In less than three months, LBJ and Lady Bird married at St Mark's Episcopal Church, about 80 miles south in the city of San Antonio.
Though Bush got tax cuts right in 2003, both he and Obama have overseen spending increases that would make the previous spending expert, LBJ, blush.
Nevertheless, if Kerry does pick Gephardt and ultimately wins, the senator from Massachusetts may get the most legislatively skilled VP since his idol picked LBJ.
The Democrats were about to nominate as their standard bearer Hubert Humphrey, LBJ's loyal, pro-war vice president, even though Humphrey had not competed in a single primary.
And while expanding the welfare state promised long-term political gain to Democrats, as FDR and LBJ demonstrated, the fruits of fiscal responsibility were more difficult to discern.
LBJ's heartland, to the more Republican big cities and suburbs.
Both were junior officers: Truman was an artillery captain in World War I (and by all accounts a very good officer), and LBJ served in the Navy during World War II.
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Jeanne Lambrew, a senior fellow of the Center for American Progress and associate professor at LBJ School of Public Affairs, worked on health policy at the White House from 1997 to 2001.
Obama doesn't want to be an LBJ.
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The political fallout will be worth watching, too, as Governor Romney can campaign on repealing the law and President Obama can tout passage of the law the as the kind of LBJ or Roosevelt accomplishment that makes history.
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As Lyndon Johnson escalated America's involvement in Vietnam in spring 1965, he was already thinking about how any sign of "weakness" would benefit Richard Nixon, who was starting to publicly criticize LBJ for not doing enough to achieve victory.
Mr. Caro explained: "When Ted Sorenson lived at 62nd and Central Park West, " referring to JFK's speechwriter and close confidante, Mr. Caro, who was at work on his multi-volume LBJ biography and lived a few blocks north, would drop by to pick Sorenson's brain.
Johnson kept his at the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas and, according to the U.S. Park Service that continues to maintain the property, loved to spook visitors by taking them for a ride in the Amphicar and pretending to lose control of the vehicle, veering off precipitously into a lake on the premises.
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