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ashling

(25,771 posts) Thu Jan 9, 2014, 03:15 PM Jan 2014

LBJ

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LBJ (Original Post) ashling Jan 2014 OP

he grew up poor, G_j Jan 2014 #1

Amen shenmue Jan 2014 #2

G_j

(40,367 posts)

1. he grew up poor,

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2014, 03:23 PM

Jan 2014

Looking back on his childhood, Lyndon Johnson would recall that "poverty was so common, we didn't know it had a name." The Johnson home on the banks of the Pedernales River in Stonewall, Texas lacked electricity and indoor plumbing. But the Johnson family chose not to define themselves in terms of what they lacked.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/lbj-early/

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

2. Amen

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2014, 03:47 PM

Jan 2014

If you want to encourage people to have a family and keep them together, one of the best ways to do it is to create steady jobs. How else are people supposed to take care of each other?

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