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Churchill’s War Speeches, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Gregg Hurwitz • Nemesis: 'Makes the Jack Reacher books look quaint' - The Sun
Johnson stood there for about thirty-five minutes. Then, at 1:20, O’Donnell appeared at the door and crossed the room to Lyndon Johnson, and seeing the stricken “face of Kenny O’Donnell who loved him so much,” Lady Bird knew. “He’s gone,” O’Donnell said, to the thirty-sixth President of the United States.
Robert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
“President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.”
Robert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
Hemingway wrote Perkins from Oak Park that his father had shot himself, leaving a wife, six children, and “damned little money.” His father was the parent Hemingway really cared about. From that day forward his relationship with Perkins deepened. Max became the solid, trustworthy older man in Hemingway’s turbulent life, someone to turn to and rely
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