, James Watt, responsible for national policy on the environment: “We don't have to protect the environment--the Second Coming is at hand.” In 1966, Lyndon Johnson told the Austrian ambassador that the diety “comes and speaks to me about two o’ clock in the morning when HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015070 --- PAGE BREAK -

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

965 to 1969. His success is worth remembering. When Bliss became chairman in 1965, the Republicans. were in much worse shape than in 2013: President Lyndon Johnson had won a Jand- slide re-election over Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, and the Democrats held large majorities in both houses of Congress and the state

ough September 30, 2016 Four-year moving average Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis and Haver Analytics occurred in the mid- 1960s, during President Lyndon Johnson's term, and ran for five years. That was tied to the military engagement in Southeast Asia. The second large defense-spending boom occurred during th

re, his private barber was cutting his hair. I was seated next to him while he got his haircut, and he dictated notes to me. It wasn’t as bad as what Lyndon Johnson would do, requiring aides to join him in the bathroom. While working at Kay, Scholer, I had the first fancy restaurant meal of my life. I was asked