By Caro, Robert A.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines; Caro, Robert A.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines
ISBN-10: 0307960463
ISBN-13: 9780307960467
Pulitizer Prize biographer Robert A. Caro follows Lyndon Johnson via either the main difficult and the main positive sessions of his profession, describing Johnson's risky courting with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy throughout the struggle they waged for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president, via Johnson's unsatisfied vice presidency, his assumption to the presidency after Kennedy's assassination, his Read more...
summary: Pulitizer Prize biographer Robert A. Caro follows Lyndon Johnson via either the main difficult and the main positive classes of his profession, describing Johnson's unstable courting with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy through the struggle they waged for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president, via Johnson's unsatisfied vice presidency, his assumption to the presidency after Kennedy's assassination, his victories over the finances and civil rights, and the eroding seize of Vietnam
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Kennedy had once asked his secretary in an exasperated tone), as he had given up on all his attempts to obtain some measure of recognition, or at least dignity, as Vice President. Once, as Senate Majority Leader, he had been a mighty figure—“the second most powerful man in the country”—but that seemed a long time ago now. Although initially he had been favored to win the Democratic nomination for President, he had been outmaneuvered by the younger man, and, having accepted the vice presidency, had, in that post, become not just powerless but a figure of ridicule.
Revolutionizing the Senate, not only pushing long-stalled social welfare legislation through it but making it, for the first time in over a century, a center of governmental energy and creativity, Lyndon Johnson brought a nineteenth-century—in many ways an eighteenth-century—institution into the twentieth century. The role of Leader—legislative leader—was, furthermore, clearly a role he was born to play. ” “Mr. Leader, I never thought you could pull that one off”—he was completely in charge, a man at home in his job.
The youngest—and the greatest. By 1955, in the opinion of its journalistic chroniclers and a growing number of historians and political scientists, the Senate was the joke it had been for decades, only more so—so much an object of contempt that, more and more frequently, a suggestion was being heard that perhaps the institution might be dispensed with entirely: its “obsolesence,” said the era’s most authoritative work on Capitol Hill, George B. ” Revolutionizing the Senate, not only pushing long-stalled social welfare legislation through it but making it, for the first time in over a century, a center of governmental energy and creativity, Lyndon Johnson brought a nineteenth-century—in many ways an eighteenth-century—institution into the twentieth century.
The passage of power by Caro, Robert A.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines; Caro, Robert A.; Johnson, Lyndon Baines
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