John Autry4d ago
March 15, 1965 - Less than a week after the Bloody Sunday police attacks on peaceful marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon Johnson addressed the American people before a televised Joint Session of Congress. He said, “There is no issue of States rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights . . . We have already waited a hundred years and more, and the time for waiting is gone . . . .”
#HumanRights #LBJ
Bob the Traveler4d ago
OTD in 1965 while responding to the Selma crisis, US President Lyndon B Johnson told the US Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act https://toilet-guru.com/power-and-privacy.html?s=mb #LBJ #history
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PugJesusMar 12

Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1868762/hey-hey-lbj-how-many-kids-did-you-kill-today

Jonathan EmmesediMar 9

I was tempted to post a simple "Ignore Tony, follow Harold!" message to Starmer, but as this article suggests, Wilson's "keeping the UK out of Vietnam" story is not quite that straightforward.

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/britain-vietnam-and-special-relationship

#Iran #USUKRealtions #VietnamWar #HaroldWilson #SpecialRelationship #LBJ #LyndonBainesJohnson

Sage 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇻🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 🍉Feb 27

Sanders: Gaza “May Be Biden’s Vietnam”:
https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-gaza-may-be-bidens-vietnam/

#vietnamwar
#genocidejoe
#lbj
#antiwar
#freepalestine
#criminalbiden

Sanders: Gaza “May Be Biden’s Vietnam”

“Biden is putting himself in a position where he has alienated not just young people, but a lot of the Democratic base.”…

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Bob the TravelerJan 8
US President Lyndon Johnson announced a "War on Poverty" OTD in 1964 https://toilet-guru.com/power-and-privacy.html?s=mb #history #LBJ
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Susanbeth5781Dec 29
#LBJ
Doug GrinbergsNov 10

Frustrated, angry US lefty here to suggest slogan to needle the corporatist neoliberal Democratic Party, move the Overton window left in the direction of progressive / populist / social democratic safety net platform, policies (even if the bad guys own the White House, the House, the Senate and the extreme Court😡):

New rule: Dems must quickly become the best of #FDR, #JFK, #LBJ

PugJesusNov 3
Just some figurehead who accomplishing nothing, no one of importance /s
PugJesusNov 3
Just some figurehead who accomplishing nothing, no one of importance /s