During the war. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. All right, we will go ahead started. We are looking at postwar disillusionment. We will begin this class with a way i have never begun world war memories. Were going to begin it with a canonical column. The column that comes out of the First World War and is reprinted in anthologies over and over again to show us something of warexperience of the great and its memory. You will undoubtedly recognize it because you read it for today fro class. Need, coughing like pegs, we cursed through sludge. Still on the hunting, we turned our backs and toward our distant began to trudge. Men marched asleep many have lost their boots, but slinked on bloodshot. All lying. , outstrippedtigue 5 9s. Fittingly, we have a pop mocked pockmarked, shell torn landscape behind the soldiers. In ecstasy of fumbling. Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, but someone was still yelling out and stumbling then through the misty panes and thick green light a
You get a real flavor for how Lyndon Johnson lobbies and puts together legislation. It allows you to hr the people he was working with and how they tried to put pressure on the white house. We are looking at president johnson and the Voting Rights act and the civil rights act. Is it a good time to reassess his five and a half years in the white house . Absolutely. There are many reasons. One is the enormity of everything that was accomplished then. I think that we are looking back on it with appreciation. Whatever side of the spectrum you are on, just the fact that so much legislation came out of congress within a year and a half. The legislation that remains with us today. I think it is a good time to figure out what we accomplished and how we accomplished it. And i think the other reason we are interested is because of the relationship between president and congress. Right now we are in a period where there is gridlock and people wonder why president s cant seem to do more, whether i