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Lyndon johnson developed a reputation as a dmen straightive public speaker with a pension for telling tall tales. His six consecutive terms in the house of representatives and two term as a senator from texas could not erase his down home image. Many democrats in 1960 frowned upon kennedys choice for a man they believed belched allowed, cussed, violated personal space, and never apologized. Once president , he claimed that he did not, want to be the president who built empires or sought grandeur. But johnson liked to be in charge. In private his wife said he was a warm and mellow man. In gener...

Harvey went from a hurricane to a Tropical Storm. Now, greg abbott, the governor of texas, was expected to have a press conference in the last hour, and now we are getting information that hes going to be holding one in this hour. As you can imagine, with the impact of harvey, the fact that the governor wants to get as much information as possible before he comes out to give an idea to the press of just what the state faces, but the issue with harvey is the fact that this is going to be a camper, basically, this system is going to stall out and be a major rain disaster event for the state of t...

True West Magazine The miners who had meals and rented a room at this Palmetto, California, boardinghouse in the 1860s would have shared close quarters in their rooms, plus used common wash basins, towels, chamber pots, outdoor privies and possibly communal washrooms—which meant illnesses spread easily. What was frontier life like in the 1880s? Rena Miller Titusville, Florida What you see in Westerns is a sanitized version of life in the 19th century. Diseases like typhoid, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis and other contagions could wipe out entire families or even communities. Most of th...

In a dire path of what could be deadly rains so the demotion from a category four to a tropical storm really hasn't stopped the threat of what is going on historic rainfall, more than 40 inches predicted and leaving nearly 300,000 people without power currently. can climate change be fuelling the history-making nature of this storm? it's a question a lot of people are wondering, and joining me now is the founder and senior meteorologist at paris weather, powell douglas. what's been the most surprising thing to you about harvey, the formation of it as we've been watching it from early in august...