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Lyndon B. Johnson’s rise to power as “Master of the Senate” was due to his tremendous power of personality and ruthless political maneuvers, biographer Robert A. Caro said at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) last night...
...Caro attempted to decipher “the real essence, the fundamentals” of Johnson, as he delivered the annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics...
...Caro warmed up the crowd with a joke and by confessing that “I’m always more comfortable sitting at a typewriter at my desk than I am at a lecture like this...
...Caro is widely considered the authority on Johnson, having completed the first three volumes of a projected four-part series entitled The Years of Lyndon Johnson. The latest installment, Master of the Senate, won Caro the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography...
...auspicious place to start: the top. The Francises and the Bushes are Texas families connected by the deep bonds of power and wealth. L.B.J. biographer Robert Caro has called Francis' granduncle Charles I. Francis a "heroic figure in the Texas oil industry." The younger Charles first met George W. Bush some 15 years ago on a bass-fishing trip in Athens, Texas, where both families had getaways. Francis' brother James was Bush's campaign chairman in the 1994 gubernatorial race. Four years later, Charles came out to Bush in a letter. "The day he gets it, he calls...