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“Do not let anyone else run your business, unless (1) you can supervise his performance with adequate care and comprehension or (2) you have unusually strong reasons for placing implicit confidence in his integrity and ability.”

bill reflected Roosevelt’s skill in handling the Senate, almost on a man-to-man basis.

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was after President Kennedy’s funeral that Congress passed legislation to provide full Secret Service protection to former presidents.

According to legend, after he left office Eisenhower is supposed to have said that his great mistake as president was to appoint Earl Warren chief justice of the United States. The legend has acquired the status of revealed truth, and countless writers have cited it as if it were fact. The problem is that Eisenhower never said that. I have found no

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“No man was more influential in the Senate than Garner,” Joseph Alsop and Turner Catledge wrote in their detailed and invaluable book on the court fight, The 168 Days; “In the President’s first administration larger numbers of senators had seen the light on New Deal measures in [Garner’s] private office with the well-stocked liquor closet … than an

Eisenhower’s executive ability—his capacity to delegate while assuming ultimate responsibility—was exceptional.

James H. Rowe, the highly respected lawyer and political insider, who had known Lyndon Johnson for almost twenty years, was aware that, as he was to say, Johnson would always use “whatever he could” to “make people feel sorry for him” because “that helped him get what he wanted from them.” But that awareness didn’t help Rowe when the person from wh