Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Uses of Power

BERNARD J. FIRESTONE is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hofstra University. He is the author of The Quest for Nuclear Stability and is currently writing a book on the United Nations under U Thant.ROBERT C. VOGT is Associate Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

• Introduction: LBJ, The Strength of a Giant by Tom Wicker The Great Society and War on Poverty Strategies for Governance: Domestic Policymaking in the Johnson Administration by Michael R. Reopel and Lance W. Bardsley Medicare: Hallmark of the Great Society by Sheri I. David Untangling the Mess: The Administrative Legacy of President Johnson by Marlan Blissett The War on Poverty: Two Decades Later by Attiat F. Ott and Paul Hughes-Cromwick Failure of Nerve: How the Liberals Killed Liberalism by Michael P. Riccards The Great Society Then and Now: A Panel Discussion Equal Justice and the Judiciary "To Write It in the Books of Law": President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Robert D. Loevy Lyndon, La Raza, and the Paradox of Texas History by Julie Leininger Pycior LBJ and Supreme Court Politics in the Light of History by David M. O'Brien Abe Fortas: Presidential Adviser by Bruce Murphy Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Revolution: A Panel Discussion Economic Policy LBJ, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Burden of New Deal Liberalism by Donald K. Pickens Lyndon B. Johnson and the 1964-1968 Revenue Acts: Congressional Politics and "Fiscal Chickens Coming Home to Roost" by Phillip M. Simpson The Vietnam War and Inflation Revisited by Tom Riddell Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Resources by John E. Ullmann Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson: The Formosa and Middle East Resolutions by Thomas M. Gaskin Lyndon Johnson as Diplomat in Chief by Elmer Plischke Vietnam The Johnson Presidency and Foreign Policy: The Unresolved Conflict between National Interest and Collective Security by Kenneth Thompson Tonkin Gulf Revisited: Vietnam, Military Mirage, and Political Reality in 1964 by William F. Levantrosser President-Press Interaction: Media Influence on the Johns Hopkins Address by Kathleen J. Turner "In What Direction Are We Going in Vietnam?": The U.S. Senate, Lyndon Johnson, and the Vietnam War, 1964-1965 by Philip J. Avillo, Jr. The Vietnam War in Perspective: A Panel Discussion Epilogue: Second Thoughts by Bill D. Moyers