tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post2054830391977525738..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Fake News? Fake Scholarship.Brad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-81250407562807163432017-02-24T20:37:57.601-07:002017-02-24T20:37:57.601-07:00The youngest interns in the Johnson White House ar...The youngest interns in the Johnson White House are now collecting Social Security and among his cabinet secretaries, independent agency chiefs, and consequential staff, only three remain (Alan Boyd, Marvin Watson, and Joseph Califano), of whom the youngest is 85 years old. The last survivor of the Kennedy Administration, Newton Minow, is 90. These administrations are beginning to come into view. Although it was at least as much the issue of the culture of the political class in general as Johnson's contribution, we can see the policy and practice of the era as a misbegotten enterprise. Lyndon Johnson belongs in the bottom half-dozen or so. The 'historians' the polled are antique quondam youth activists and Democratic Party hacks, without a doubt.<br /><br />Truman actually was da man. <br /><br />As for BO, the historians' guild will play Emperor's new clothes for four-score-and-seven years. Art Decohttp://wwrtc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com