Epstein Secrets

y, February 17, 2017 NYTimes.com » For decades, universal health care was the great dream of the Democratic Party, the last big piece of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society left to be put into place. From the moment Barack Obama and congressional Democrats accomplished that in 2O1O, with the passage of

017 NYTimes.com » For decades, universal health care was the great dream of the Democratic Party, the last big piece of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society left to be put into place. From the moment Barack Obama and congressional Democrats accomplished that in 2O1O, with the passage of the Affordable C

n party, the G.O.P.— couldn't fail to summon a contrasting portrait. The biographer Robert Caro has also been a guest. Caro's ongoing volumes about Lyndon Johnson portray a President who used everything from the promise of appointment to bald-faced political threats to win passage of the legislative agenda th

e Recovery Act, has probably kept more people out of poverty than a whole lot of other government programs that are currently in place." Johnson's Great Society will be fifty years old in 2014, but no Republican wants a repeat of that scale of government ambition. Obama acknowledges this, saying, "The appet

pressed him to invoke Andrew Jackson as his populist model, and he had loaded up on Jackson books (they remained unread). But his real beau ideal was Lyndon Johnson. LBJ was a big man who could knock heads, do deals, and bend lesser men to his will. Trade it out so in the end everyone got something, and the bette

y needed was a man like John McCormick, the Democratic Speaker of the House who had served during Bannon’s teenage years and had shepherded Johnson’s Great Society legislation. McCormick and other Democrats from the 1960s were Bannon’s political heroes—put Tip O’Neill in that pantheon, too. An Irish Catholic wor