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"It's almost hard to believe LBJ not only existed, but was President. 4000+ pages (not even including post-1964) devoted to the single most comprehensive character study ever written - and the subject isn't fictional. He reads like a character from Fitzgerald or Salinger, but he's the man almost sole"
"I read about it 23 years ago and it did seem quite sympatico that as the US government was trying to pass laws to make it illegal to stop black people from voting in the south, the federal government would make a concerted effort to dismantle the most violent pro-segregation terrorist group."
"Nixon, Johnson Kennedy and Eisenhower stay"
"5. Lydin B Johnson and Franklin D Roosevelt (1937)"
"Have been listening to audiobooks of Robert Caro's LBJ series at work recently and it's hilarious how much of a petty dick he could be. After Kennedy's death, LBJ had a bunch of press people and foreign dignitaries to his ranch in Texas around Christmas. There was one Kennedy staffer he really didn'"