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LBJ’s List and the Conservative Challenge
Obama dismisses the Great Society’s trillions as chump change. Conservatives had better learn from that.
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Still with me? Good, because that’s only a partial list of what LBJ was so proud of but which Obama apparently feels just wasn’t enough. Perhaps Obama has a point. After all, the above is only a partial listing reflecting LBJ’s work for just one month of 1963 and only a portion of 1964. Let’s move on to 1965, again with space prohibiting a full listing of what Senator Obama seems to feel were LBJ’s inadequacies in just not getting the job done:
p>Medicare br> Aid to Education br> Higher Education br> Four Year Farm Program br> Department of Housing and Urban Development br> Housing Act br> Social Security Increase br> Fair Immigration Law br> Older Americans br> Heart, Cancer, Stroke Program br> Drug Controls br> Mental Health Facilities br> Health Professions br> Medical Libraries
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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