Until the end of his life, whenever the subject of the vast growth of the LBJ Company and associated business enterprises was raised, Lyndon Johnson would emphasize that he owned none of it (All that...
From the earliest beginnings of Lyndon Johnson’s political life—from his days at college when he had captured control of campus politics—his tactics had consistently revealed a pragmatism and a cynici...
Are you afraid? an interviewer asked him after the bombing, and there was a pause, and then Martin Luther King said, very firmly, No, I’m not. My attitude is that this is a great cause, a great issue...
He thought, My own R. B. Russell, Jr.—I was crazy with happiness. He said then what he was to repeat many times: That is me living all over again.
He saw that at its center were Coretta and Yoki, unharmed. And then, having made sure of that, Martin Luther King became very calm, with what Branch calls the remote calm of a commander. Stepping back...
MR. CALHOUN. Never, never. MR. WEBSTER. What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN. Always, always. MR. WEBSTER. And I honor him for it.
I swore then and there, Lyndon Johnson was to say, that if I ever had a chance to help those underprivileged kids I was going to do it. It was at Cotulla, Lyndon Johnson was to say, that my dream bega...
But then one evening in November, 1939, the Smiths were returning from Johnson City, where they had been attending a declamation contest, and as they neared their farmhouse, something was different. O...
BUT WHAT, really, had the People’s Party—the farmers who called themselves Alliancemen—asked for? Only that when men found themselves at the mercy of forces too big for them to fight alone, government...
And, in fact, had Johnson’s plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been just the way it was.
After a while, the writers of the Allen Room invited me to lunch, which we thereafter ate almost every day in the employees’ cafeteria in the library basement. These writers included not just some who...