Lyndon B. Johnson

Federal innovation a matter of perspective

2013-05-08 20:17:24

The federal government has an innovation problem — or does it? The answer depends on whom you ask. Federal employees surveyed over the past three years have had a declining view of government innovation. But that doesn't mean Uncle Sam doesn't...

A 'Requiem' for JFK assassination

2013-05-08 13:38:00

Fifty years later, the assassination of John F. Kennedy remains a galvanizing event, studied by serious scholars and conspiracy fringers with equal intensity. People who were old enough in 1963 still remember everything about the news flash that...

'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'

2013-04-25 00:00:00

"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...

Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard

2013-04-21 04:00:00

Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Mr. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all....

Judge Robert Bell: Timeline

2013-04-13 00:00:00

July 6, 1943 Robert Mack Bell born in Rocky Mount, N.C.; family moves to Baltimore about 11/2 years later. June 17, 1960 Bell and 11 students try to get seated at Hooper's Restaurant at Charles and Fayette streets in Baltimore. A hostess says the...

How Republicans raided the welfare state and left it flat broke

2013-04-11 11:15:00

I would like to add some points to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's column "How the welfare state has grown" (April 7). Mr. Ehrlich fails to mention the fact that every president since Lyndon Johnson, beginning in 1964, has raided the Social Security...

Bush's war, 10 years later

2013-03-22 00:00:00

The 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq seems an appropriate time to look back at how it all happened and what it has wrought, not so much for Iraq as for the United States, which poured its own troops, treasure and world reputation into...

How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture

2013-04-07 05:00:00

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...

5 questions … for outgoing Broadmead CEO Rich Compton

2013-03-31 00:00:00

Broadmead, a continuing-care retirement community in Hunt Valley, has "been so much than just a place to work," said retiring CEO Rich Compton. He has served as the company's leader for almost three decades. During that time, his parents came to live...

InsideMDSports: DE Jeremiah Clarke enjoys Terps spring practice

2013-03-28 05:08:00

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Class of 2014 defensive end Jeremiah Clarke (T.C. Williams) took in a spring practice at Maryland...

Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner

2013-03-12 03:00:00

President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...

Supreme Court must not roll back voting rights

2013-02-26 13:20:00

It would be troubling — though perhaps fitting — if Alabama, the state that gave us the Voting Rights Act in 1965 because of its opposition to providing African-American citizens the ability to register and vote, became the state that would...

Metal plaques mark the dates of campaign speached made by President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson at the Hartford Times portico in this 1978 photo.

2013-05-13 13:28:24

Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, attends dedication ceremonies for the new George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.

2013-04-25 00:00:00

Luci Baines Johnson Turpin, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, attends dedication ceremonies for the new George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.

2013-04-25 00:00:00