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The battle lines were now drawn: Eisenhower and Senate liberals against the conservative blocs in both parties. Lyndon Johnson, the Senate minority leader, held the key.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Once the subcommittee reached Jim Wells in its canvassing, and made the old return official, the danger of a new certification would be over. But the subcommittee was going through the envelopes alphabetically, and there were 122 counties between Johnson and safety. So Wirtz hurried the subcommittee along—and when the Jim Wells return was finally
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Godtfred’s and Axel Thomsen’s
Jens Andersen • The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination
Eisenhower—who,
Jon Meacham • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
After these lines were installed, Clark says, Johnson wanted his dealings about his business interests conducted over these direct phone lines. All during Lyndon Johnson’s presidency, he, either himself or through a press secretary, would insist that he had divorced himself completely from his business interests. “As the American people know,”
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
The lobbyists had thought the problem would be solved by O’Daniel’s election to the Senate, which would remove him to Washington and see him replaced in the Governor’s chair by Lieutenant Governor Coke Stevenson, a lifelong Wet and an ally of Beer, Inc., and its hard-liquor partner. Now O’Daniel appeared to have lost the election, but by only about
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
At the end of all his scheming and maneuvering, what he got—the only new responsibilities Kennedy gave him—were the chairmanships of two committees: the National Space Council and the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. The impressive ring to the assignments—the nine-member Space Council had been created as a central coordinating
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
Twenty years before, Cohen told the author, he had considered young Representative Johnson “promising material.” Subsequently, he said, he had been somewhat put off by the “intensity” of Johnson’s ambition. But now, in 1957, talking to Johnson over lunch, he felt that the promise had been fulfilled: “He was a man with a mission”—to pass a civil
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
From the strategic standpoint at that time, however, the most dangerous gap in the list was that between the Chevrolet and the Olds. It was big enough to constitute a volume demand and thereby to accommodate, on top of Chevrolet, a competitor against whom we then had no counter. It was therefore an important gap to fill both offensively and
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