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Obama’s need for speed trumps risk of agenda overload

After his landslide electoral victory in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson acted urgently because his power would wane with time. “This honeymoon won’t last,” Johnson said to aide Jack Valenti. “Every day I lose a little more political capital. That’s why we have to keep at it, never letting up.” Barack Obama, who during his 2008 campaign talked ...

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