Tag Archives: 1963
LBJ and JFK: Assassination & the struggle for power
“The King – the President – is dead. The King has a brother. The brother hates the Vice-President. You have a really Shakespearean struggle for power here.” Robert Caro, Lyndon B Johnson’s biographer talking to me about the assassination. It … Continue reading
Oh What A Lovely War Commemoration!
Recently the Prime Minister spoke of his hopes that events to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War would be a “commemoration that, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, says something about who we are as … Continue reading