Historian Alan Brinkley has suggested that the most important domestic achievement of the Great Society may have been its success in translating some of the demands of the civil rights movement into law.

Alan Brinkley has suggested that " the gap between the expansive intentions of the War on Poverty and its relatively modest achievements fueled later conservative arguments that government is not an appropriate vehicle for solving social problems.

Brinkley has attempted to capitalize on its good fortune of being the largest city near the Refuge and the rediscovery of the woodpecker:

Brinkley's ability to write for the ear with simple, declarative sentences gained him a reputation as one of the medium's most talented writers, and his connections in Washington led CBS's Roger Mudd to observe, " Brinkley, of all the TV guys here, probably has the best sense of the city -- best understands its moods and mentality.

Brinkley has been married four times, most notably to musician Billy Joel, several of whose music videos she appeared in.

As an editorial model, Brinkley has appeared on over 500 magazine covers, including US, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and the best-selling issue of LIFE ever ( photo ).

Brinkley has been photographed in 6 continents in more than 30 countries.

Brinkley has designed clothing patterns for Simplicity Pattern and in March, 1994 helped design, for brand Nouveau Eyewear, her line of prescription glasses and sunglasses called Christie Brinkley Perspectives with worldwide sales.

Christie Brinkley has been married four times:

Brinkley has three children:

Brinkley helped found a club for cutting, an equestrian sport in which a rider has two and one half minutes to cut as many cattle from a herd as he can. Since 1998, Brinkley has given nearly $ 100, 000 to organizations and candidates of the Democratic Party of the United States, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, America Coming Together and Moveon. org.

She has also been involved in anti-nuclear activities and campaigned against the restarting of the High Flux Beam Reactor ( HFBR ) located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. In February 2007, Brinkley had emergency back surgery to correct a herniated disc that occurred after a ski trip in Aspen, Colorado in December 2006.

The medical board revoked his license, stating that Brinkley " has performed an organized charlatanism ... quite beyond the invention of the humble mountebank ".

His house, commonly called the Brinkley Mansion, still stands today at 512 Qualia Drive in Del Rio and has been designated Texas Historic Landmark number 13015.

Brinkley has responded to these claims.

However, the U. S. has never required a license to listen to broadcast radio or TV ; today, it even issues routine licenses under the Brinkley Act, originally enacted to silence the border-blaster charlatan John R. Brinkley, for the operation of Mexican stations from studio facilities in the U. S.

The name Roy Hinkley is used one other time when Mr. Howell introduces the Professor as Roy Huntley and the professor corrects him, to which Mr. Howell replies, " Brinkley, Brinkley.

Producer Reuven Frank, who had advocated pairing Huntley and Brinkley for the convention coverage, thought using two anchors on a regular news program " was one of the dumber ideas I had ever heard.

" This exchange became one of television's most famous catchphrases even though both Huntley and Brinkley initially disliked it.

When only Huntley or Brinkley was on the program, that one would merely say " Good night for NBC News ".

With a career spanning more than three decades, magazines such as Allure, Playboy, and Men's Health have named Brinkley one of the most attractive women of all time.

In 1990 Brinkley was, along with Cheryl Tiegs and Beverly Johnson, one of the three models featured as dolls produced by Matchbox Toys called The Real Model Collection.

In 1998 Playboy readers voted Brinkley one of the 100 Sexiest Women of the 20th century.

They had one child, Sailor Brinkley Cook.

A new study proposed a more westerly path which would move the Anacostia station west, replace the Good Hope Road station with one at Congress Heights, and terminate at a station ( named " Rosecroft " in plans and Metro maps ) near Brinkley Avenue and Rosecroft Drive in Fort Washington instead of Branch Avenue in Suitland.

He was later adopted by Peter Cook and named Jack Paris Brinkley Cook.

* In the novel Super-Folks by Robert Mayer, the imp from the 5th dimension is named Pxyzsyzygy, foe of the novel's Superman analogue, David Brinkley.

Brinkley set up a storefront business in Greenville, South Carolina with a man named Crawford.

He was named an " admiral " in the Kansas Navy and sponsored a hometown baseball team called the Brinkley Goats.

Fannett is home to the Clifton Steamboat Museum, which features a large exhibit on Lieutenant Commander Harry Brinkley Bass ( after whom the USS Brinkley Bass was named ).

The novel's protagonist is a Superman analogue named David Brinkley ( a play on TV newsman David Brinkley ).

Brinkley was named the Independent League Player of the Year by Baseball America.

The program featured a young Washington correspondent named David Brinkley, and competed against Douglas Edwards with the News on rival CBS.

On being admitted to Cambridge, he was recorded as being the son of John Toler Brinkley, a vintner, but it is strongly suggested that his real father was John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury, Chief Justice of the Irish Court of Common Pleas.

Brinkley and his wife were the parents of two sons: John ( 1793 – 1840 ), a clergyman ; and Matthew ( 1797 – 1855 ) J. P., of Parsonstown House, Co. Meath, who married a daughter of Dean Richard Graves and was the father of Francis Brinkley.

Sarah Burnett gave birth out of wedlock to John Romulus Brinkley in the town of Beta, in Jackson County, North Carolina, naming her son after his father, and after Romulus, the mythical twin suckled by wolves.

( The patient's son later told the The Kansas City Star that Brinkley had in fact offered to pay his father " handsomely " if he'd go along with the experiment.

* Don Brinkley, ( 1921 – 2012 ) television writer and producer, adoptive father of Christie

Anstey was the son of Dr. Anstey, a wealthy clergyman, the rector of Brinkley ( Cambridgeshire ) where he was born.

Brinkley was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk and was baptised there on 31 January 1763, the illegitimate son of Sarah Brinkley, a butcher's daughter.

John Richard Brinkley died when his son was ten years old.

After his birth on September 3, 1927, the tiny voice of Brinkley's son John Richard Brinkley III, nicknamed " Johnny Boy ", was heard on the radio program.

They were the parents of two daughters and a son, Jack Ronald Brinkley ( 1887 – 1964 ), who also contributed greatly to Japanese culture and education.

On his death bed Frank Brinkley had told his son, Jack, of an episode that occurred during the Russo-Japanese War.

He is the son of David Brinkley, a long-time television newscaster at NBC and ABC.

Wayne was told that he was his son from a fling with Moya Brinkley, a girl that he had known as a teenager.