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New book on transfer of power from JFK to LBJ

December 2, 2009
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*The Kennedy Assassination 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson’s Pivotal First Day as President */Steven M. Gillon/. Basic, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 9780465018703 In this fresh take on John F. Kennedy’s assassination, history professor Gillon probes the chaos that surrounded Vice President Johnson’s ascension to power as he coped with both the trauma of Kennedy’s murder…

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NY Times and Kennedy in Vietnam

October 19, 2009
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The following is quoted from an op-ed piece in the New York Times written by Gordon M. Goldstein, author of ‘Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam’. The piece discusses comparisons and diversions in Kennedy’s policy towards Vietnam and Obama’s policy towards Afghanistan. The emerging picture is of a commander…

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New 11/22/1963 photos

July 31, 2009
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New 11/22/1963 photos

These photographs may be new to many of us. Original here These may be more familiar Original from the Mary Ferrell foundation Original

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