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...long-awaited third volume of Robert Caro?s biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, "Master of the Senate," will be published this spring. PW predicts that despite its 1,152-page length, it will "rise to the top of critics? reading piles and April bestseller lists." First serial rights to the New Yorker...
...occasionally even love have played in the pursuit and exercise of presidential power. Without the ladies, she argues, many of the men for whom Hail to the Chief has been played probably would have ended up as peanut merchants, obscure lawyers or morose ranchers. "[Lady Bird] made the [Lyndon] Johnson presidency possible," insists Marton. Coaxing her husband into running on his own in 1964, when he was in the final months of John Kennedy's unfinished term, Lady Bird wrote, "Beloved, you are as brave a man as Harry Truman--or FDR--or Lincoln...To step out now would...
...generation after 1945, no man was deemed quite suitable for office unless he had served in the military, preferably in combat. Texas Congressman Lyndon Johnson had himself shipped out to the Pacific for a little while during World War II and returned with a suspect silver star. John Kennedy allowed his PT-109 to get cut in half by a Japanese destroyer, but performed with real heroism in rescuing his crew. It was the war record, and the emaciated, boyish charm, that captured the ladies of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and sent him to the House...
...professor may find himself approaching the two-hour mark with his brain hitting the wall, the needle on the gas gauge standing well below Empty, and questions like this tickertaping across the back of his mind: "Jesus, did I finish that sentence? Was I talking about Montaigne, or Lyndon Johnson? Did I tell them that story before? Or did I tell it last term? I CAN'T REMEMBER! Who won World War II anyway...
...There was the time in the sixties, the professor could say, when Brigid Bardot and I were at our summer place in Antibes, and an urgent call came through from the White House, from Lyndon Johnson's special assistant, Mike Montaigne. Victor Charlie was on the warpath. The Tet offensive had just erupted. Numbah Ten! The President needed the me in Saigon, yesterday!, to cut orders from MAC-V to I-Corps and retake the Imperial City of Hue. The President himself came on the line: "Son, you tell Westy he can't make an omelet without breaking...