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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Great Society

Great Society stories: 3 news summaries
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 Is Obama's 
 Afghanistan  
 Turning Into 
 LBJ's Vietnam? 

Both presidents tried to push big home agendas during war

Aug 23, 09 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the war in Afghanistan rages alongside President Obama’s sweeping domestic battles, he’s keenly aware of the dangers of becoming a modern-day LBJ, an insider tells the New York Times. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program at home was dogged by the Vietnam war, a historian says; Obama... More »

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Vietnam • Lyndon Johnson • Afghanistan war • Great Society • Obama administration • President Obama

Obama's Plans Require a Lot More Hands

Federal workforce
could expand by 100-250K, experts say

Mar 3, 09 8:57 AM CST
(Newser) - President Obama’s ambitious budget and stimulus plans will require the government to hire scores of new workers, the Washington Post reports. Analysts put the number between 100,000 and 250,000 spread among various agencies, the biggest expansion of the federal workforce since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society days.... More »

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Barack Obama • Newt Gingrich • Lyndon Johnson • budget • federal employees • economic stimulus package • Great Society • Obama administration • President Obama • hiring

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 Left Has Won (Whoever Wins) 

The conservative counter-revolution has failed

Jun 10, 08 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - After 4 decades, the conservative revolution launched by the likes of Goldwater and Buckley is not only washed up, Michael Lind writes in Salon, it  failed "completely, undeniably and irreversibly." The structure of 20th-century American liberalism is intact, if battered, he writes, and liberals should stop worrying so... More »

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climate change • health care • John McCain • New Deal • evangelicals • conservatism • Great Society

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