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• Lyndon Johnson’s political genius was creative not merely in the lower, technical aspects of politics but on much higher levels. And if there was a single aspect of his creativity that had been, throughout his career, most impressive, it was a capacity to look at an institution that possessed only limited political power—an institution that no one ...
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• Campaigning in Harlem, Vice President Richard Nixon had told audiences that civil rights legislation “cannot pass … as long as the filibuster exists in the Senate.” (He also said that if Eisenhower was elected, “we are going to have performance on civil rights, not just promises,” because Eisenhower “is going to have a vice president who opposes th...
• He understood that all his life—as is shown by the fact that as a boy “he was always repeating” the salesman’s remark that “You’ve got to believe in what you’re selling,” and that decades later, in his retirement, he would say: “What convinces is conviction. You simply have to believe in the argument you are advancing: if you don’t, you’re as good ...