28-01-2014, 02:41 AM
This is such crap.
In his last volume, the so called legislative genius of LBJ amounted to balancing the budget to get Kennedy's tax program through so that the chair of the committee could tell everyone that he got Johnson to do something.
Uh Bob, are you saying Walter Heller could not have done that for JFK?
And BTW, according to Thurston Clarke, whose book is looking better and better, Look Magazine did an in depth survey in 1964 to see if Kennedy's program would have passed anyway. It would have. Can't wait to see how Caro deals with that one.
As I wrote in my review of Sabato, in 1963, Kennedy's great speech on civil rights, Birmingham, Wallace being removed from the gate of Alabama on national TV, and the March on Washington, all of these supplied incredible momentum. I mean by this time, RFK was actually challenging Sam Ervin in public hearings to go to Mississippi with him so he could show the senator just why the law was needed.
Guess what? Sam declined.
Caro is going to try and save Johnson in the last volume in order to deflect the murderous weight of Vietnam. And boy I can't wait to see what Caro does on that issue.
In his last volume, the so called legislative genius of LBJ amounted to balancing the budget to get Kennedy's tax program through so that the chair of the committee could tell everyone that he got Johnson to do something.
Uh Bob, are you saying Walter Heller could not have done that for JFK?
And BTW, according to Thurston Clarke, whose book is looking better and better, Look Magazine did an in depth survey in 1964 to see if Kennedy's program would have passed anyway. It would have. Can't wait to see how Caro deals with that one.
As I wrote in my review of Sabato, in 1963, Kennedy's great speech on civil rights, Birmingham, Wallace being removed from the gate of Alabama on national TV, and the March on Washington, all of these supplied incredible momentum. I mean by this time, RFK was actually challenging Sam Ervin in public hearings to go to Mississippi with him so he could show the senator just why the law was needed.
Guess what? Sam declined.
Caro is going to try and save Johnson in the last volume in order to deflect the murderous weight of Vietnam. And boy I can't wait to see what Caro does on that issue.