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deadpresidents · 22 days

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"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"

-- President Lyndon B. Johnson, on the cynical media coverage that he believed he and his Administration often received, particularly when compared to the coverage of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy.

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todaysdocument · 2 years

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President Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court on 6/13/1967. Justice Marshall was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.

Series: Anson McCook Collection of Presidential Signatures, 1789 - 1975

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015

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[[in cursive]] The White House,

June 13, 1967

To the

Senate of the United States.

I nominate [[end cursive]] Thurgood Marshall, of New York,

to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the

United States.

[[signature]] Lyndon Johnson

#archivesgov #June 13 #1967 #1960s #Thurgood Marshall #Supreme Court #SCOTUS #LBJ #Johnson administration

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jpegfantasy · 2 years

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Interior Style & Design, Frank LLoyd Wright, 2003 📚

S.C. Johnson Wax Administration Building, Wisconsin, built 1936-1939 🏢

Salvaged & scanned by @jpegfantasy 🖨️

#80s #1980s #90s #1990s #aesthetic #aesthetics #retro #vintage #interior design #design #decor #office design #office decor #architecture #frank lloyd wright #wisconson #sc johnson #wax administration building #1930s

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vordemtodgefeit · 2 years

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within less than 24 hours:

iconic, truly

#now get rid of truss #this government is somehow even less functional than johnson’s administration #uk politics #ukpol

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tomorrowusa · 4 months

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House Republicans have taken time out from doing nothing (except Speaker drama) all this year to launch an impeachment inquiry. Orders for this move probably came from Donald Trump who is planning his dictatorship of retribution while fighting criminal charges in four courts and civil charges in a fifth.

Considering that Republicans could have done this almost any time in 2023, it's not surprising that they picked a time of improving news on the economic front.

Don't be fooled by GOP dupe influencers claiming that things are worse now than during the Great Depression. Some losers who are economically illiterate seem to be spreading that disinformation. Yeah, when prices are artificially low due to deflation caused by economic catastrophe it doesn't mean people had it easy.

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Before Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal got going during his first term, the unemployment rate in the US was 24.9%. That's even worse than it was during Trump's botched handling of the COVID-19 emergency in the US in 2020.

Republicans, if given full power, would drastically cut back or eliminate programs designed to reduce poverty. By coincidence, those programs were initiated under Democratic administrations.

Social Security (Franklin Roosevelt)

Unemployment Insurance (Franklin Roosevelt)

Food Stamps/SNAP (Lyndon Johnson)

Medicare (Lyndon Johnson)

Medicaid (Lyndon Johnson)

Obamacare (Barack Obama)

Republicans claim that those programs increase the debt. But as soon as GOP administrations take office they hypocritically stop worrying about the debt and give gigantic tax breaks to their filthy rich contributors while trying to strangle anti-poverty programs. BTW, Bill Clinton balanced the budget in his second term with revenue raised by increasing taxes on the filthy rich during his first term.

#us house of representatives #house republicans #impeachment #maga mike johnson #distractions #the economy #the great depression #no – things aren't worse now than during the great depression #fewer people live in poverty under democratic administrations #republicans are the main cause of recessions and depressions #election 2024

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 10 months

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The Ukrainian oligarch Republicans claim bribed Joe Biden said he never actually talked to Biden, according to an interview transcript made public Thursday by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).

Mykola Zlochevsky is a co-founder of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma that employed Biden’s son Hunter for several years. Zlochevsky served as Ukraine’s energy minister, but has been in hiding since fleeing corruption charges.

Republicans claim there’s evidence a Burisma executive — apparently Zlochevsky — paid Joe Biden a $5 million bribe when he was vice president in exchange for an official favor. They’ve demanded the FBI hand over a document reflecting a confidential source’s conversation with Zlochevsky.

Raskin has now countered with a document of his own — a three-page transcript of a 2019 interview between Zlochevsky and an acquaintance of Rudy Giuliani, who at the time was publicly seeking dirt on Biden on behalf of then-President Donald Trump.

“No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden’s engagement” with Burisma, Zlochevsky says in the transcript.

When asked if the Vice President had assisted him or his company “in any way,” Zlochevsky says no.

In 2015, however, a Burisma executive named Vadym Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden in an email for having had the chance to meet his father at a charity dinner, though other guests told The New York Times they didn’t recall the elder Biden having a substantive conversation with Pozharskyi.

Politico in 2020 reported the contents of the Zlochevsky transcript, and Democrats have repeatedly referred to it in response to Republican claims that the FBI is withholding derogatory material against Biden. Democrats obtained the transcript in 2019 in their impeachment inquiry into Trump for pressuring Ukraine to announce a sham investigation of the Bidens.

Raskin has said FBI officials told him the Justice Department assessed the derogatory material on Biden and found it wasn’t worth formally investigating, but the bureau has declined to make any public statements to that effect. So Raskin has turned to what lawmakers already have on hand from Zlochevsky.

“Despite being interviewed as part of a campaign by Mr. Giuliani and his proxies in 2019 and 2020 to procure damaging information about the Biden family, Mr. Zlochevsky explicitly and unequivocally denied those allegations,” Raskin said in a letter to House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday.

“Mr. Zlochevsky’s statements are just one of the many that have debunked the corruption allegations against President Biden that were first leveled by Rudy Giuliani and have been reviewed by former President Trump’s own Justice Department,” Raskin said.

In response, Comer insisted the FBI’s tip from a confidential human source who spoke to the Burisma executive has nothing to do with Giuliani. (He has not explicitly said the source is Zlochevsky, but has noted the source is in hiding. Other Republicans, including Giuliani, have named Zlochevsky.)

“The Burisma executive claims then-Vice President Biden solicited and received a $5 million bribe in exchange for certain actions,” Comer said in a statement on Thursday. “The executive also claims he didn’t pay ‘the big guy’ directly but used so many bank accounts that it would take ten years to unravel.”

State Department officials have said they considered Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board during his father’s vice presidency awkward because it looked like a conflict of interest. Joe Biden at the time was the face of the U.S. government’s Ukraine policy and urged the country to root out corruption, including by firing its top prosecutor.

Trump dispatched Giuliani to find evidence that Biden’s action was designed to protect his son, but Republicans have been unable to substantiate claims that the elder Biden bent U.S. foreign policy in his family’s favor. An investigation by Senate Republicans in 2020 concluded it was “not clear” that Hunter Biden’s position with Burisma affected the U.S. government’s stance toward Ukraine.

Nevertheless, Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have kept the story alive this year, seizing on the FBI’s refusal to hand over unverified raw material to argue the bureau is protecting the Bidens.

They have stepped up their efforts following this month’s federal indictment of Donald Trump on Espionage Act charges.

On Wednesday, Comer asked the Treasury Department to hand over any “suspicious activity reports” filed by banks on accounts related to Zlochevsky and other Burisma executives. In his letter to Treasury, Comer claimed his committee “has reviewed government documents that allege President Biden, while serving as Vice President, solicited and received a bribe from a foreign source in return for certain actions.”

Other Republicans have suggested that Zlochevksy might not be a credible source. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), for instance, said earlier this month that the bribery allegation “could be coming from a very corrupt oligarch who could be making this stuff up.”

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 days

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

April 24, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

APR 25, 2024

This morning, President Joe Biden signed into law the $95 billion national security supplemental bill providing military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, as well as humanitarian aid to Gaza and other peoples suffering humanitarian crises. The Pentagon immediately sent about a billion dollars worth of ammunition, air defense munitions, and artillery rounds, as well as weapons and armored vehicles to Ukraine. The U.S. Department of Defense had moved supplies into Poland and Germany in hopes that the measure would pass; they should move into Ukraine soon.

The Pentagon also said today that in mid-March it provided Ukraine Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, with a range of 185 miles (300 kilometers), twice that of previous weapons sent by the U.S.

For many months, Ukraine has been desperately short of supplies, especially ammunition, and its war effort has suffered as it waited for the reinforcements that are finally on their way.

In a speech after signing the law, Biden explained that the U.S. would send equipment to Ukraine from its own stockpiles and then “replenish those stockpiles with new products made by American companies here in America: Patriot missiles made in Arizona, Javelins made in Alabama, artillery shells made in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. In other words, we’re helping Ukraine while at the same time investing in our own industrial base, strengthening our own national security, and supporting jobs in nearly 40 states all across America.”

Biden emphasized that the law is “going to make America safer. It’s going to make the world safer. And it continues America’s leadership in the world, and everyone knows it.” But he called out that border security was missing from the bill, and he promised to bring that measure back.

Biden made it a point “to thank everyone in Congress who made it possible, especially the bipartisan leadership: Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson; Leader Jeffries; Leaders Schumer and McConnell. They don’t always agree, but when it matters most, they stepped up and did the right thing. And I mean this sincerely, history will remember this time.”

“We don’t walk away from our allies; we stand with them. We don’t let tyrants win; we oppose them. We don’t merely watch global events unfold; we shape them. That’s what it means to be the…indispensable nation. That’s what it means to be the world’s superpower and the world’s leading democracy. Some of our MAGA Republican friends reject that vision,” he said, “but this vote makes it clear: There is a bipartisan consensus for that kind of American leadership. That’s exactly what we’ll continue to deliver.”

This morning, Arlette Saenz of CNN reported on the six months of behind-the-scenes negotiating Biden and his team engaged in to get House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) behind Ukraine aid. Meetings, phone calls, defense briefings, and so on, laid out for Johnson just what abandoning Ukraine would mean for U.S. and global security.

Biden urged his team to stay in close contact with Johnson, as well as House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but to avoid attacking Johnson in order to allow room to move discussions forward.

Counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti, a key negotiator, told Saenz: “He just kept saying, ‘Keep talking. Keep working.’ You know, keep finding ways to resolve differences. And that was his direction.”

Biden’s focus on the slow, steady work of governance is a change from the actions of Republican leaders since 1981 whose goal was not to build up successful programs that helped Americans in general, but rather to slash the government. Killing programs requires only saying no to other people’s ideas and riling up voters to endorse that anti-government program by flame-throwing on right-wing media.

Over the years, it seems we have become accustomed to the idea that flame-throwing defines politics, but in fact, Biden’s reliance on slow, careful negotiation harks back to the eras when leaders sought to build coalitions and find common ground in order to pass legislation.

North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) acknowledged the power of Biden’s approach today when it endorsed Biden for president in 2024. The union’s president, Sean McGarvey, noted that Trump had promised to protect pensions and to pass infrastructure laws that would help employment in the building trades, but did neither. In contrast, Biden worked to pass the American Rescue Plan, which protected pensions, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Chips and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act, which McGarvey said “have brought life-changing, opportunity-creating, generational change focused on the working men and women of this great country who have for far too long been clamoring for a leader to finally keep their word.”

In an ad, McGarvey said: “Donald Trump is incapable of running anything, let alone the most powerful country in the history of the world.”

The NABTU has 3 million members across the country and has committed to investing heavily to organize workers to vote for Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, where about 250,000 of their members live.

Trump has other problems today, as well, after an Arizona grand jury yesterday indicted 11 of the fake electors in that state with conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and forgery for their attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Those charged included state senators Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward, and Tyler Bowyer of the right-wing advocacy organization Turning Points Action. The indictment lists seven other co-conspirators, who are not yet named but who appear from descriptions to include Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn, and Jenna Ellis; Trump campaign operative Mike Roman; and Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows. Bobb is now senior counsel for “election integrity” for the Republican National Committee.

Trump is listed as an unindicted co-conspirator.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters from An American #heather Cox Richardson #NABTU #Election 2024 #Biden Administration #Biden Administration accomplishments #political negotiation #Mike Johnson #aid for Ukraine

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msclaritea · 1 month

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"I recognize that as a White man, I have privilege. And as an elected official, I have a responsibility for the words I use — especially in the heat of the moment. Regardless of what I meant to say, I shouldn’t have used that language," he added.

Am I surprised that a so-called 'Democrat' from Maryland is currently ratfucking our Democracy, just enough to keep conservatives in power? Absolutely not. #Maryland has a very long history of Champagne Socialism, ie, wealthy asshats who have long used the 'Independent' moniker as an excuse to judge from a lofty perch. We have quite a few saboteurs to get rid of, but everyone, please thank piece of shit, #DavidTrone for making sure that we stay in a state of LIMBO, in Congress, as he shovels red meat to the Right, with lightning speed.

#David Trone #Maryland Ratfucker #GOP #Democrats #cozy congress #Biden Administration #Kamala Harris #Hakeem Jeffries #democracy #Mike Johnson #U.S. Rep

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cidnangarlond · 5 months

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kissinger should have been hanged for treason and you can quote me on that

#he was playing both the johnson and nixon administrations just so he could land a job mind you #he was taking information from the johnson admin talking to north vietnam and giving those secrets and state secrets #to the nixon admin who were talking with south vietnam. johnson had proposed to the north hey we'll stop bombing if you come to these #peace talks we're gonna have. and they were like oh you won't bomb us anymore if we come that's great we'll be there #meanwhile that information shouldn't have gotten back to south vietnam because those were private talks. but they did #because kissinger fed it to their side of the talks. and they didn't like that information. which this eventually like #collapses the talks entirely that and other things and extends the war but another 5 years and at minimum millions more die because of it #because kissinger wanted a fucking job with whoever came out on top. and he hated nixon anyway. but the war went on for years because of him #nixon admitted kissinger was his secret back channel he got this information from btw like this is out in the open #kissinger torpedoed peace talks just to keep extending a war THAT HE KNEW WAS NOT ''WINNABLE'' BUT KEPT PUSHING FOR IT IN PUBLIC #kissinger will you die will you ever die when will you die. please for the love of god

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hezigler · 2 days

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Mike Johnson's "Courage" On Ukraine Aid Bill & Tennessee Arms Its Teache...

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The best news presenters in the US are comedians.

#the daily show #daily show #mike johnson #joe biden #biden #vote biden #biden administration #gun control #Youtube

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deadpresidents · 1 month

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"I regard [the President] as a foolish and stubborn man, doing even right things in a wrong way, and in a position where the evil that he does is immensely increased by the manner of his doing it."

-- Senator John Sherman of Ohio, on President Andrew Johnson, March 1, 1868.

#Quotes About Presidents #I can think of another President that this quote describes #History #Presidents #Presidential History #Andrew Johnson #President Johnson #Johnson Administration #John Sherman #Senator John Sherman #Congress #U.S. Senate #Politics #Political History #Political Quotes

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todaysdocument · 2 years

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A White House chef serves up a cheerful spring dessert, 5/1/1967.

Series: Johnson White House Photographs, 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969

Collection: White House Photo Office Collection, 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969

Image description: A chef stands in a large kitchen, holding a silver tray with two desserts: small flowerpots with a swirl of toasted meringue on top, and real flowers poking through.

#archivesgov #May 1 #1967 #1960s #Johnson administration #food #chef #dessert #flowers

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dadsinsuits · 17 days

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Woody Johnson

#suitdaddy #suiteddaddy #suit and tie #men in suits #suited daddy #suited grandpa #suitedman #suit daddy #daddy #silverfox #suitfetish #buisness suit #suited men #suitedmen #suited man #americans #republicans #trump administration #Woody Johnson

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jpegfantasy · 2 years

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Interior Style & Design, Frank LLoyd Wright, 2003 📚

S.C. Johnson Wax Administration Building, Wisconsin, built 1936-1939 🏢

Salvaged & scanned by @jpegfantasy 🖨️

#90s #1990s #aesthetic #aesthetics #retro #vintage #interior design #design #decor #architecture #commercial design #lobby #frank lloyd wright #sc johnson #wax administration building #wisconson

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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ancient-egg · 2 years

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You know you've fucked up when Boris starts to seem reasonable compared to you and even the ice cream eating old man from the land of guns calls you a mistake.

#uk politics #liz truss #politics #nxt uk #boris johnson #joe biden #biden administration #at least she's not boris

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