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Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate
Johnson's voting record-a record twenty years long, dating back to his arrival in the House of Representatives in 1937 and continuing up to that very day-was consistent with the accent and the word. During those twenty years, he had never supported civil rights legislation-any civil rights legislation. In Senate and House alike, his record was an unbroken one of votes against every civil rights bill that had ever come to a vote: against voting rights bills; against bills that would have struck at job discrimination and at segregation in other areas of American life; even against bills that would have protected blacks from lynching.
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Robert A. Caro _ Working
I'VE BEEN ENCOUNTERING questions of race, of segregation-of America's great crime-all my professional life.
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Robert A. Caro _ Working: Researching,
You're never going to achieve what you want to, Mr. Caro, if you don't stop thinking with your fingers
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Robert A. Caro _ Means of Ascent: The Years of
dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford.
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Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate
The belief that "a political system created in a much simpler economic era still affords the people effective control through their votes over the complex industrial state which has come into being" is a popular delusion.
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Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate
Russell answered, "Well, no-well, it certainly has permitted me to have more hours to work … but I would not recommend it to anyone. If I had my life to do over again, I would certainly get married.
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Robert A. Caro _ Working: Researching,
Why political power? Because political power shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about.
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Robert A. Caro _ The Passage of Power
One of the wise, practical people around the table" urged Johnson not to press for civil rights in his first speech, because there was no chance of passage, and a President shouldn't waste his power on lost causes-no matter how worthy the cause might be. "The presidency has only a certain amount of coinage to expend, and you oughtn't to expend it on this," he said. "Well, what the hell's the presidency for?" Lyndon Johnson replied.
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Robert A. Caro _ Working
Raising the subject of East Tremont with Commissioner Moses, I asked him the most innocuous question I could think of: Wasn't it more difficult to build an expressway in the city rather than a parkway in the country? He waved his hand dismissively: "Oh, no, no, no," he said. "There are more people in the way-that's all. There's very little real hardship in the thing. There's a little discomfort, and even that is greatly exaggerated.
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Robert A. Caro _ The Power Broker: Robert Moses
Nothing he has ever done has been tainted by legality {Robert Moses quoting an anecdote about himself}.
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Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate
He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.
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Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate
Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;"
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