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...While I still ponder the Olympic life I never led, it was on one of my final days in Beijing that I came to realize all that I would have been forced to sacrifice along the way. Shawn Johnson??€”the 16-year-old gymnast who had contributed to my intense retrospection the days before—joined NBC’s program, and I was assigned to take her on a tour of the Great Wall...
...undergraduate coordinator for the Department of History. Johnson said that readings will be culled from history books covering the 17th to the 21st centuries, with a focus on the United States and African-Americans—his areas of research. The idea for the class came from Johnson??€™s research, which centers on questions about the history of slavery, particularly the history of violence and the sensory experience of slavery. “Out of that set of questions at the heart of my work I started to work out to other sets of questions from other things...
...other force that demolished the stately edifice of old conservatism was Bush himself. During his tenure, federal spending has risen at an average rate unmatched by any president since Lyndon B. Johnson??€”those ‘small government principles’ were unceremoniously trashed. And in the name of the War on Terror, the Republicans have become the party of the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, which effectively put paid to habeas corpus and a slew of other civil liberties...
...long series of deployments also puts a strain on Johnson??€™s family life—in the seven and a half years he has been married to his wife, they have lived together for a total of only six months...
...that the executive is constitutionally the weakest branch of government. But a rhetorically adept president can leverage public support to drive through groundbreaking bills that are too risky for individual legislators to try and pass on their own. In this respect, an Obama presidency might better mirror Lyndon Johnson??€™s role in pushing through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than the anemic gestures towards civil rights made by the Kennedy White House. Senator Obama’s ability to rally the public troops—call it inspiration, charisma, or even “change...