Posted on 06/06/2014 8:15:58 AM PDT by TigerClaws
tanding on his presidential limousine, Lyndon Johnson, campaigning in Providence, R.I., in September 1964, bellowed through a bullhorn: “We’re in favor of a lot of things and we’re against mighty few.” This was a synopsis of what he had said four months earlier.
Fifty years ago this Thursday, at the University of Michigan, Johnson had proposed legislating into existence a Great Society. It would end poverty and racial injustice, “but that is just the beginning.” It would “rebuild the entire urban United States” while fending off “boredom and restlessness,” slaking “the hunger for community” and enhancing “the meaning of our lives” — all by assembling “the best thought and the broadest knowledge.”
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I remember the routine, but not the comic, either. It is too bad LBJ wasn’t really inept-he would have done a lot less damage.
What a dumb thing to say-I hope that means he is toast...
Murray Roman.
Thanks!
Nope, the guy I am thinking of is white/Jewish, he may of, however stole the joke, as was often done back in those days.
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