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...SINCE Doris Kearns taught Government 154, "The American Presidency" have there been so many LBJ anecdotes presented in one place at one time as in her treatise Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. We get the complete story about Johnson's electric toothbrush fetish. There is the vivid description of LBJ's discussion with an embarrassed Kennedy-liberal while the president sat on the toilet. And, she includes an awesome account of the haggard man who tiptoed down to the situation room of the White House at 3 a.m. to see how his war was progressing. It's all interesting...
Kearns's extensive interviews with Johnson, courtesy of her status as official LBJ biographer during and after her stay as a White House Fellow, easily carry you through the chapter by chapter chronology of Johnson's career. The description of his use of the Senate as majority leader is perhaps the most enlightening passage, painting a littleseen picture of the wheeler-dealer at his best. For the first time we are shown Johnson's pathological obsession with Bobby Kennedy, a man who Johnson believed lived only to reclaim the Kennedy throne. We find out Johnson feared that Bobby Kennedy would...
...feared the "Communist bullies" above everything, and that he stayed in the war to defeat the Communist menace abroad. The answer to a most crucial question--why Johnson chose to escalate his war of aggression in Vietnam by bombing the North in 1965--is explained by this quote from LBJ: "Suddenly I realized that doing nothing was more dangerous than doing something...
...Harvard University is no exception. For the last two years the focus of much of the campus gossip has been Doris H. Kearns, associate professor of Government and former White House Fellow. Harvard professors and students have joined national magazines and newspapers in speculation--What was her relationship with LBJ? Is she marrying Richard Goodwin? What is going on with her Basic Books contract...
...week after Harvard grants tenure to Doris Kearns, Cosmopolitian begins serializing her psycho-history of Lyndon Johnson, All the Way With LBJ. "Lyndon Johnson was a man of contradictions," the first installment reveals. "He was kind and cruel. Cheerful and morose. Refined and crude. Young and old. Smart and dumb. Tall and short." "Well," Harvey Mansfield, chairman of the Government department, remarks, "this isn't the first time I've been bamboozled by a broad, and it probably won't be the last...