Sublime

Lyndon Johnson seems to have had even in this first hour after John F. Kennedy’s death feelings that would torment him for the rest of his life—feelings understandable in any man placed in the presidency not through an election but through an assassin’s bullet, and feelings exacerbated in his case by the contrast, and what he felt was the world’s

As an adult, Wilson shared none of Roosevelt’s lust for violent conquest. For his secretary of state he chose William Jennings…

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loved, he could

THOUGH TRANQUILLITY DESCENDED BRIEFLY on Washington after Andrew Johnson’s acquittal, he disappointed Republicans who imagined he would prove more pliant on Reconstruction.