The record shows LBJ made a dog's breakfast of both, micromanaging the whole way.
Obama, like LBJ, has called for swift legislation to tighten the collar on assault weapons.
Though, if the stories are true, his predecessor had a lot more pubic affairs than LBJ did.
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.
As for currency stability, Nixon began what LBJ started by virtue of severing the dollar's link to gold.
Mr. Obama chose to see the government he inherited and grow it faster than any President since LBJ.
The first president to abuse the Trust funds to pay for the Vietnam war was Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ).
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The Kennedy-LBJ-Nixon-Ford tandem took more than a decade to get out of Vietnam.
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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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Maybe it is something about presidents with three initials, but the real expansion of redistribution came with LBJ's Great Society.
We've not gotten -- we've added since LBJ different efforts -- in the Clinton administration we added additional efforts through kids.
But a traveller can save concerns about moderation for home, and Austin is particularly strong on an LBJ favourite: ice cream.
As for spending, LBJ's oversight of the war in Vietnam and the Great Society war on poverty led to massive spending increases.
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.
Certainly no other president since LBJ has expanded the welfare state as much as we saw in the first two years of this administration.
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.
In "The Passage of Power, " his latest volume on LBJ, Robert Caro reminds us that in 1963, exactly 50 years ago, the Senate was paralyzed.
Photos of LBJ hunched over maps said it all: Staring at individual targets prevented him from seeing the broader strategic picture in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
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.
How is he more important that Harry Truman or LBJ?
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LBJ's heartland, to the more Republican big cities and suburbs.
This President has been "obstructed" less than anyone since LBJ.
But these provisions were almost rendered totally silent for almost everyone (except a few mavericks like me) by FDR with the advent of Social Security and by LBJ with Medicare.
It is a toned-down version of the "treatment" that President Lyndon Johnson successfully applied on lawmakers, with Bush attempting to cajole his opponents in instances where LBJ would have intimidated them.
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