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“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
A social conservative by instinct and upbringing, he did more to alter the relationship between ordinary citizens and their government than any other American.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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“The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (New York: Knopf, 1982). Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate (New York: Knopf, 2002).
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
That campaign raises, in fact, one of the greatest issues invoked by the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson: the relationship between means and ends.