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And if there was subtlety now in the making of this profit, the making was still, for the machine, the motive. The greed was only refined, not eliminated.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7
William Thorndike • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
Until 1957, in the Senate, as in the House, his record —by that time a twenty-year record—against civil rights had been consistent. And although in that year he oversaw the passage of a civil rights bill, many liberals had felt the compromises Johnson had engineered to get the bill through had gutted it of its effectiveness—a feeling that proved co
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Hopkins quietly withdrew his objections, and on July 22, Johnson, Wirtz and the LCRA directors were invited to the White House. There the President’s son handed them the papers approving the additional $5,000,000 appropriation, making a point of telling them that the President was “happy to do this for your Congressman.” In case they didn’t grasp t
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
But now he needed executive support no longer. In the fields which he had carved out for his own—transportation and recreation—the passage of his “amendments” to the authority enabling acts had given him resources of money and power independent of Governors and Mayors. Their approval was no longer required.