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Ben Johnson

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J.J. Watson-MacKay

@jjwm

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Father and spoonie, doing my best to be a good-ancestor.

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Forever student, endlessly curious and happy to share an Entry-Point, Boon, or expression of Community Care. Studying in the Masters in Library and Information Studies program at UBC in Vancouver, Canada.

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

Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

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@jp_sociotechish

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Kelvin Lou

@lstpalliativist

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Carey

@sublime23

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Patrick Moore

@patrickmoore

Johnson wanted the vice presidency. By 1960, his control of the Senate as majority leader had begun to wane; the election of several liberals in 1958 had undercut his dominance. He also assumed that if Kennedy won the presidency without him, the White House would set the legislative agenda and he would be little more than the president’s man in the

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Steve Melnick

@smelnick