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The president claimed in his role of commander in chief the right to commence warfare and monitor Americans at his will without congressional approval.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
To watch Lyndon Johnson deal with Congress during the transition—to watch him break the unbreakable conservative coalition—is to see a President fighting not merely with passion and determination but with something more: with a particular talent, a talent for winning the passage of legislation (in this case legislation that would write into the boo
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
Whatever their personal characteristics or modes of action, leaders inevitably confront an unrelenting challenge: preventing the demands of the present from overwhelming the future. Ordinary leaders seek to manage the immediate; great ones attempt to raise their society to their visions.
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
James Dale Davidson • The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
More and more I find myself, in this type of situation—and perhaps it is because of my advancing years—tending to strip each problem down to its simplest possible form. Having gotten the issue well defined in my mind, I try in the next step to determine what answer would best serve the long term advantage and welfare of the United States and the fr
... See moreJean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Baited now on two fronts, Salisbury yielded on one. “There is no such thing as a fixed policy,” he observed, “because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.”
John Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
The historian Andrew Roberts reminds us that, although the most common understanding of ‘leadership’ connotes inherent goodness, leadership ‘is in fact completely morally neutral, as capable of leading mankind to the abyss as to the sunlit uplands. It is a protean force of terrifying power’ that we must strive to orient toward moral ends.[14]
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Was another president going to take the country into yet another war by the back door?
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
NOW EVERYTHING HINGED on the Executive Committee. Several alternatives were available to it. It could adopt its subcommittee’s majority report, and conduct its own investigation of the Jim Wells returns. It could adopt the subcommittee’s minority report, and name Lyndon Johnson the nominee. Or it could disregard both reports, and simply name a nomi
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