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President Lyndon B Johnson Lifts Beagle by the Ears (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

LBJ picked up his dog by the ears

Matthew Rozsa
FILE - In this June 21, 1967, file photo, a crowd of hippies keep a large ball, painted to represent a world globe, in the air during a gathering at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21, day one of "Summer of Love." (AP Photo, File)

Lessons from Summer of Love

Don Hazen, Danny Goldberg - Alternet
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) (AP)

When LBJ launched Medicare

Bill Moyers - BillMoyers.com
David Koch in a still from "Citizen Koch"

We're getting the right wrong

Elias Isquith
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Lyndon B. Johnson (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

LBJ's "addiction" to Vietnam

George C. Herring
Bill Kristol (AP/Janet Van Ham)

Conservatives' history problem

Michael Lind
John Roberts, Rand Paul (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Photo montage by Salon)

"Radicals of a different sort"

Heather Digby Parton
Maureen Dowd; "Selma" (AP/Steven Senne/Paramount Pictures/Photo montage by Salon)

Dowd's clueless white gaze

Brittney Cooper
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Martin Luther King Jr.; David Oyelowo in "Selma" (AP/Paramount Pictures)

"The rightness of the cause"

Joan Walsh
Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnson, and David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr., in "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

The Twisted Truth of "Selma"

Andrew O'Hehir
Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

"You could blackmail LBJ"

Ken Hughes
Angela McGlowan (Screen shot, Fox News)

Fox News on "slave mentality"

Elias Isquith
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Rand Paul, Glenn Beck (AP/Reed Saxon/Reuters/Chris Keane)

The right's new Jim Crow

Elias Isquith
Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Eric Cantor (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Reuters/Adrees Latif/Jonathan Ernst)

GOP's despicable race gambit

Josh Eidelson

LBJ: Art critic in chief

Deborah Solomon
President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at Dallas Airport, Nov. 22, 1963. (AP)

JFK: We don't know the truth

David Talbot
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Prachi Gupta

Kera Bolonik
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