LBJ, Reconsidered

The Gist

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🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Lyndon B. Johnson doesn't always get the consideration he deserves as one of America's great presidents. On today's Gist, historian Joshua Zeitz says LBJ's fight for welfare reform and civil rights redefined the country, even as those legal achievements come under attack by today's Republican Party. Zeitz is the author of Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House. Plus, a Spiel from the 2016 archives: Vote Jabba! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following content is explicit.
0:02.4	["The Star Day Fever First 2018 from Slated to the Gisdai Mike Pesca."
0:10.6	Descredited Ninkam poop, Devin Nunez, is close to achieving his goal of hashtag, release
0:17.5	the memo.
0:18.5	At this point, I guess they have to.
0:21.4	What are you gonna do?
0:22.4	Because hashtag appeased the label.
0:25.9	How could this memo contain anything worthwhile?
0:30.2	Who would want an accounting of what went on and who was wiretapped and why through
0:35.5	the lens of Descredited Ninkam poop, Devin Nunez?
0:39.1	Now, I'm not saying this as an ad-hominum attack.
0:42.8	When I describe him as a Descredited Ninkam poop, there's a reason one he's discredited.
0:47.8	Remember the whole Trump alleging that Obama wiretapped him in Trump Tower and then Nunez
0:53.6	ran interference on that.
0:55.2	So he's discredited.
0:56.2	He should be discredited in the non-Sean Hannity portions of the media.
1:00.5	But let's get to Ninkam poop.
1:01.9	I'm not saying he's a flat-out dummy.
1:04.6	I'm not alleging that he is in general, a low IQ individual.
1:10.7	To me, Ninkam poop connotes something of the hair-brained.
1:14.9	Like going back to editor report that you said you wouldn't touch, that you swore to
1:19.6	other members of the committee, yes, this what you read, this is what's going to be released.
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