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This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Robert Caro, left, and Robert Gottlieb in a scene from the documentary "Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb." Gottlieb, the celebrated editor of Caro, Toni Morrison and many others, died Wednesday at age 92.(Claudia Raschke/Wild Surmise Productions, LLC/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)

Robert Caro’s much-anticipated LBJ book likely won’t be delayed by death of editor Robert Gottlieb

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

The desk on display at the LBJ Presidential Library, that President Lyndon B. Johnson sat at in the President's Room at the U.S. Capitol to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965, on Aug. 6, 1965, is seen on May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Stephen Spillman)

LBJ’s daughter Luci watched him sign voting rights bill, then cried when Supreme Court weakened it

By Gary Fields - Associated Press

This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Robert Caro, left, and Robert Gottlieb in a scene from the documentary &quot;Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb.&quot; (Claudia Raschke/Wild Surmise Productions, LLC/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)

Robert Caro, Gottlieb and the mystic chords of memory

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

Author and biographer Robert Caro is photographed after touring a permanent exhibit in his honor, &quot;Turn Every Page&quot;: Inside the Robert A. Caro Archive, at the New York Historical Society Museum &amp; Library in New York on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Caro exhibit ‘Turn the Page’ is a window into his world

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

Vehicles drive along the FDR Drive in New York, part of the city's aging infrastructure, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. With an appeal to think big, President Joe Biden is promoting his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan directly to Americans. Republicans oppose Biden's American Jobs Plan as big taxes, big spending and big government. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Biden back to the future with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society

By Gary Anderson

Loss and Resentment of The Vietnam War Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The Vietnam War was winnable

By James Roberts

People wait to ride a revolving swing at the Perry State Fair in New Lexington, Ohio, Friday, July 24, 2020. In the towns that speckle the Appalachian foothills of southeast Ohio, the pandemic has barely been felt. Coronavirus deaths and racial protests _ events that have defined 2020 nationwide _ are mostly just images on TV from a distant America. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

In Appalachia, people watch COVID-19, race issues from afar

By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Arizona picks senators, military for Trump’s heroes garden

Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing” by Robert Caro

By David Bahr

FILE - In this May 29, 2010, file photo, author Richard Goodwin receives a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from Trustee Edward Collins during commencement ceremonies at UMass-Lowell at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Mass. Former White House aide and speechwriter Goodwin has died. He died Sunday, May 20, 2018, at his home in Concord, Mass. His wife, the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, said he died after a brief bout with cancer. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Richard N. Goodwin, White House speech writer, dead at 86

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

In this 1965 photo, AP correspondent Peter Arnett holds a captured Chinese flamethrower, in Vietnam. As the country celebrated Lunar New Year after midnight on Jan. 31, 1968, communist forces launched a wave of surprise attacks that became known as the Tet Offensive and would change the course of the Vietnam War. The AP’s Peter Arnett reported on the Vietnam War from 1962 until its end in 1975. On the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the AP is publishing this edited extract from his book “We’re Taking Fire: A Reporter’s View of the Vietnam War, Tet and the Fall of LBJ.” (AP Photo)

AP BOOK EXCERPT: The Tet Offensive’s first 36 hours

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this July 23, 1967 file photo, a man is taken into custody by police during a riot in Detroit. The riots engulfed the city beginning July 23, 1967 and continued for five days _ one of many to hit the U.S. that summer. The violence prompted President Lyndon Johnson to send in federal troops to quell the upheaval. (AP Photo/Alvin Quinn)

AP Was There: The 50th anniversary of the Detroit riots

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 23, 1967 file photo, Soviet Premier Alexi Kosygin takes a bite of shrimp cocktail as State Department Interpreter, Bill Kramer, center, relays the words of President Lyndon Johnson, right, during a luncheon meeting of the leaders on the Glassboro State College campus in Glassboro, N.J. Fifty years ago during the Cold War, Johnson and Kosygin decided to talk as the Six-Day War raged in the Mideast. They settled on a place halfway between New York and Washington and selected the school to host the hastily arranged summit in the college president's mansion. (AP Photo/Jerry Mosey, File)

New Jersey college recalls being host to Cold War summit

By SHAWN MARSH - Associated Press

President Donald Trump salutes a Marines honor guard as he disembarks from Marine One upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017 from a trip to Florida. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Repealing Johnson Amendment may be unwise

By Cal Thomas

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, file photo, a woman pays for merchandise at a Kohl's department store in Sherwood, Ark. A recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that two-thirds of Americans would have difficulty coming up with the money to cover a $1,000 emergency. But having a modest, immediately accessible emergency fund is critical to financial well-being. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Welfare reform can work

By Ed Feulner

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Prisoner of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society and the Limits of Liberalism’

By Joseph C. Goulden

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, NOV. 17, 2013 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 photo from the White House via the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president as Jacqueline Kennedy stands at his side in the cabin of the presidential plane on the ground at Love Field in Dallas. Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a Kennedy appointee to the Federal court, left, administers the oath. In background, from left are, Associate Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff, holding microphone; Jack Valenti, administrative assistant to Johnson; Rep. Albert Thomas, D-Texas.; Lady Bird Johnson; and Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas. (AP Photo/White House, Cecil Stoughton, via the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston)

CIA confirmed Oswald contacted Cubans, Soviets before assassination, memo shows

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

DEBORAH SIMMONS: Bed bugs biting seniors out of affordable house, home

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

Illustration on comparisons between Barack Obama and Woodrow Wilson by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

THOMAS SOWELL: History’s 2014 anniversaries recalled hard lessons of rhetoric, reality

By Thomas Sowell

FILE - This Jan. 12, 1966 file photo shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson giving his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. Is “strong” losing its strength? Presidents of both parties have long felt compelled to sum up the state of the union with a descriptive word or two in their State of the Union addresses. Mostly the same word. For many years now, “strong” has been the go-to adjective. House Speaker John McCormack of Mass. is at left, Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz. is at right. (AP Photo, File)

FEULNER: A poor way to fight poverty

By Ed Feulner