- Nov 2024
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Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson paid a visit to Appalachia and sat on therough-hewn porch of a jobless sawmill worker surrounded by children withsmall clothes and big teeth.
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, greet Tom Fletcher's family in Inez, Ky., in 1964. Fletcher was an unemployed saw mill worker with eight children.<br /> Bettman/Corbis via https://www.npr.org/2014/01/18/263629452/in-appalachia-poverty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder
Poverty Tours: <br /> - https://texasarchive.org/2010_00054
Compare also with: - https://hypothes.is/a/ksOQmPaAEe61H7vM8pMhcg<br /> Poverty in Rural America, 1965. http://archive.org/details/0223PovertyInRuralAmerica.<br /> which was mentioned in Isenberg's White Trash (2016)
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texasarchive.org texasarchive.org
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The Poverty Tours (1964)<br /> https://texasarchive.org/2010_00054
Sort of stunning that this film about the poverty tours starts out focused on an airplane and airline travel which would have been a terrific extravagance at the time.
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- Sep 2024
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www.curbed.com www.curbed.com
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He did at least speak to almost everyone, apart from LBJ’s press secretary, Bill Moyers, who has kept his silence.
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- Apr 2024
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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One study of women in rural areas without electricity in the 1940s found that hand-washing and ironing a 38-pound laundry load required taking about 6,300 steps around the house, the well, the stove, and back to the house. After nine such loads, a woman would have walked the equivalent of a marathon. The electrification of housework reduced the ambulatory burden of that same laundry load by 90 percent.
Which study?
Was it mentioned by Robert Caro in his Johnson biography which has a chapter laying out some of this work before electrification?
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- Oct 2022
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An example of this comes from President Lyndon Johnson. As he explainedto an aide in 1960, “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convincethe lowest white man that he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t noticeyou picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’llempty his pockets for you.”25
- Robert Dalleck, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Time, 1908–1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 584.
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