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...author Robert Caro, another man’s power struggle has become half a life’s pursuit. By the time of the publication of the third volume of his opus The Years of Lyndon B. Johnson, Caro had spent over 25 years and 2500 pages on the subject, and he told students Tuesday he has no intention of stopping...
...this fascination with power that eventually led Caro to Johnson, who once said, “I do understand power, whatever else may be said of me.” Caro describes many methods Johnson discovered to gain power, from House Speaker Sam Rayburn’s paternal affection for Ladybird, Johnson’s wife, to his ruthless annihilation of Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds’s career...
...Power unmasks what was underneath all along,” Caro says. “Johnson had compassion for the downtrodden and the passion to raise them up.” His achievement of that goal represented an apex in his career...
Caro is currently working on the fourth, and in all likelihood last of his books on Johnson, which will cover his vice-presidential and presidential years...
...life of Lyndon Johnson for me is a very poignant life,” Caro says, “most of all because he was never satisfied to stay where...