SOURCE: NYT
4-8-14
tags: Civil Rights Act, Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson
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4-8-14
For Obama Presidency, Lyndon Johnson Looms Large
Breaking Newstags: Civil Rights Act, Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson
Two days before joining other presidents in Texas to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, President Obama tackled enduring inequality himself on Tuesday, in this case economic disparity based on gender.
His action? Signing an executive order barring federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their pay and a memo seeking statistics on contractor salaries.
If the photo-friendly ceremony in the East Room was not exactly the stuff of Mount Rushmore, it did reflect a broader question about the state of the presidency a half-century after Lyndon B. Johnson enacted monumental change in American society: Is it even possible for a president to do big things anymore?
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