Robert A. Caro Quote
Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, to hang on to [the power] he had wielded as Majority Leader as a de facto Majority Leader; Johnson had the illusions that he could be in a sense, as Vice President, the Majority Leader. His proposal violated what was to these senators one of the Senate’s most sacred precepts—its independence of the executive branch; he was proposing that a member of that branch preside over their meetings.
Robert A. Caro
Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, to hang on to [the power] he had wielded as Majority Leader as a de facto Majority Leader; Johnson had the illusions that he could be in a sense, as Vice President, the Majority Leader. His proposal violated what was to these senators one of the Senate’s most sacred precepts—its independence of the executive branch; he was proposing that a member of that branch preside over their meetings.