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  1. 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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    Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman's "Fair Deal.
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    {Until the end of their lives, these men and women would tell stories about the summer they followed Lyndon Johnson and his Flying Windmill around Texas; as Oliver Knight of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram would write about one trip, "That mad dash from Navasota to Conroe in which I dodged stumps at 70 MPH just to keep up with that contraption will ever be green in my memory."} At the landing site, there would be the brief respite
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    With a note of sadness, Wicker wrote in 1983 that "the reverence, the childlike dependence, the willingness to follow where the President leads, the trust, are long gone-gone, surely, with Watergate, but gone before that.… After Lyndon Johnson, after the ugly war that consumed him, trust in 'the President' was tarnished forever." That tarnishing revolutionized politics and government in the United States. The shredding of the delicate yet crucial fabric of credence and faith between the people of the United States and the man they had placed in the White House occurred during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
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    From the earliest beginnings of Lyndon Johnson's political life-from his days at college when he had captured control of campus politics-his tactics had consistently revealed a pragmatism and a cynicism that had no discernible limits.
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  6. Robert A. Caro _ Means of Ascent: The Years of

    I never conceived of my biographies as merely telling the lives of famous men but rather as a means of illuminating their times and the great forces that shaped their times-particularly political power, since in a democracy political power has so great a role in shaping the lives of the citizens of that democracy.
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    Until the end of his life, whenever the subject of the vast growth of the LBJ Company and associated business enterprises was raised, Lyndon Johnson would emphasize that he owned none of it {"All that is owned by Mrs. Johnson.… I don't have any interest in government-regulated industries of any kind and never have had"}.
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