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Topic: LBJ

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

LBJ picked up his dog by the ears

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

Lyndon B. Johnson (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

LBJ's "addiction" to Vietnam

George C. Herring

Bill Kristol (AP/Janet Van Ham)

Conservatives' history problem

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

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

"The rightness of the cause"

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

The Twisted Truth of "Selma"

Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon (AP/Charles Tasnadi)

"You could blackmail LBJ"

Angela McGlowan (Screen shot, Fox News)

Fox News on "slave mentality"

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

The right's new Jim Crow

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

GOP's despicable race gambit

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

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