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Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Annual Report 2024
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If Foreign Relations was going to be the main point of the Republican attack, Lyndon Johnson said, Democratic defenses on that committee should be especially strong, but they were, in fact, weak. They should be shored up by senators with the expertise in foreign affairs, and the force, to stand up to Taft. He had two senators in mind who fit that d
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Matthew Richardson • The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
THE SENATE HAD WON AGAIN. The citadel of the South, the dam against which so many liberal tides had broken in vain, was still standing, as impenetrable as ever. And it was standing thanks in substantial part to its Majority Leader. For years, the South had had a formidable general in Richard Russell. In 1956, as in 1955 and 1954 and 1953, it had ha
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
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