Robert A. Caro Quote
The enormous power held by each of the southern committee chairmen individually was multiplied by their unity, by what White called a oneness found nowhere else in politics. The symbol was the legendary Southern Caucus, the meetings of the twenty-two southern senators which were held in the office of their leader, Richard Brevard Russell of Georgia, whenever crisis threatened—meetings that were, White said, for all the world like reunions of a large and highly individualistic family whose members are nevertheless bound by one bond. In those meetings, the southern position was agreed upon, its tactics mapped, its front made solid.
Robert A. Caro
The enormous power held by each of the southern committee chairmen individually was multiplied by their unity, by what White called a oneness found nowhere else in politics. The symbol was the legendary Southern Caucus, the meetings of the twenty-two southern senators which were held in the office of their leader, Richard Brevard Russell of Georgia, whenever crisis threatened—meetings that were, White said, for all the world like reunions of a large and highly individualistic family whose members are nevertheless bound by one bond. In those meetings, the southern position was agreed upon, its tactics mapped, its front made solid.