And the theme of the article was how to remove Lyndon Johnson from power.

He was the architect of the Great Society programs under Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s.

Sounded very ominous when he took me nearby to the lake, conveniently called Lake Lyndon Baines Johnson.

While Lyndon was on vacation with his family, his car crashed, and a month later he died from his injuries.

So since I tell stories, let me look back on the lives of two of the presidents I've studied to illustrate this point Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson.

But perhaps my old friend Lyndon Johnson might have put it in less noble fashion Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball.

But an even more important form of relaxation for him, that Lyndon Johnson never could enjoy, was a love of somehow humor, and feeling out what hilarious parts of life can produce as a sidelight to the sadness.

The World Day of Remembrance is a chance to remember people like Faisal, Nauf, Aron, Lyndon, Mansoor and thousands of others, and to recognize the ways in which their deaths or injuries have affected individuals, families and communities.

Viewed through the lens of history, the main job of US presidents is to be mature and wise enough to stand up to the permanent war machine. Kennedy tried his successor, Lyndon Johnson, did not, and the debacle of Vietnam ensued.

For in the months leading up to my selection, like many young people, I'd been active in the anti Vietnam War movement, and had written an article against Lyndon Johnson, which unfortunately came out in The New Republic two days after the dance in the White House.

It is not only in central banking, of course, that we see the role of historical experience in shaping policymaking. President Lyndon Johnson, when deciding to escalate US intervention in Vietnam, drew an analogy with Munich, when the failure to respond to Hitler s aggression had catastrophic consequences.

In his 2000 presidential bid, George W. Bush famously promised compassionate conservatism and a humble foreign policy, but governed very differently, as when he decided to invade Iraq. Likewise, Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson campaigned on promises of peace, but each took America to war shortly after being elected.

As President George W. Bush argued about the war in Iraq, US President Lyndon Johnson predicted that defeat in Vietnam would be renewed in one country and then another. What Johnson failed to foresee were the domestic and regional constraints that would prevent the dominos from falling in the way he predicted.

LOS ANGELES Forty years ago this month, more than 50 nations gathered in the East Room of the White House to sign the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In his memoirs, US President Lyndon B. Johnson called it the most significant step we had yet taken to reduce the possibility of nuclear war.

CAMBRIDGE Approaching the end of his first year as president, Barack Obama has taken a bold step in deciding to increase the number of American troops in Afghanistan to over 100,000. Critics on the left point out that the Korean War crippled Harry Truman s presidency, just as the Vietnam War defined Lyndon Johnson s administration.

The Lyndon Johnson that I saw in the last years of his life, when I helped him on his memoirs, was a man who had spent so many years in the pursuit of work, power and individual success, that he had absolutely no psychic or emotional resources left to get him through the days once the presidency was gone.

SYDNEY Pada bulan November 1965, Presiden Amerika Serikat Lyndon B. Johnson menerima laporan pemerintah pertama yang memperingatkan bahaya yang diakibatkan oleh pembakaran bahan bakar fosil dalam jumlah besar. Lima puluh tahun termasuk waktu yang lama dalam politik, sehingga sungguh menakjubkan betapa sedikitnya upaya yang dilakukan sejak saat itu untuk mengatasi ancaman, dengan tetap menjalankan business as usual.

For on the surface, Lyndon Johnson should have had everything in the world to feel good about in those last years, in the sense that he had been elected to the presidency he had all the money he needed to pursue any leisure activity he wanted he owned a spacious ranch in the countryside, a penthouse in the city, sailboats, speedboats.

President Lyndon Johnson, when deciding to escalate US intervention in Vietnam, drew an analogy with Munich, when the failure to respond to Hitler s aggression had catastrophic consequences. A quarter century later, President George H.W. Bush, considering how best to roll back Iraq s invasion of Kuwait, drew an analogy with Vietnam, where the absence of an exit strategy had caused US forces to get bogged down.