Robert A. Caro

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if one characteristic of Lyndon Johnson was a boundless ambition, another was a willingness, on behalf of that ambition, to make efforts that were also without bounds

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its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves

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That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart

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Recalling his mother’s endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had “thought that mothers never had to sleep

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Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed