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...Lyndon Johnson adopted an interestingly amphibious approach to day and night. He stayed up late, to drink Scotch, or to choose bombing targets for missions over North Vietnam. Next day after lunch he would act as if it were bedtime. He would yawn, put on his pajamas, get into bed, and go to sleep. When he awoke, his body, much refreshed, thought it was time to start another day. Greedy Lyndon lived two days in the space of one. Guns and butter...
...then, once he had bullied and cajoled and converted his colleagues, he would have to do something even harder. He would have to trust them. And that's what finally happened last Wednesday afternoon, when a big, messy coalition of reformers from both parties gathered in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room to decide whether to hold hands and jump off the cliff together. As McCain entered the summit early Wednesday afternoon, the size of his gamble scared him, and he wondered if he'd misplaced his faith. "When I walked in that room and sat down, I didn't think...
...then, once he had bullied and cajoled and converted his colleagues, he would have to do something even harder. He would have to trust them. And that's what finally happened last Wednesday afternoon, when a big, messy coalition of reformers from both parties gathered in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room to decide whether to hold hands and jump off the cliff together. As McCain entered the summit early Wednesday afternoon, the size of his gamble scared him, and he wondered if he'd misplaced his faith. "When I walked in that room and sat down, I didn't think...
...event on Wednesday night billed as "an evening with Richard Nixon." He brought in a historian at the National Archives to play 45 minutes of the tapes Nixon recorded in the Oval Office during his presidency. He says he plans another evening of oral history, next time with Lyndon B. Johnson...
...about illness and power. When young John Kennedy was elected in 1960, he had already been given the sacrament of Extreme Unction several times. He had suffered for years from life-threatening Addison's disease. Kennedy succeeded Dwight Eisenhower, whose presidency was much afflicted by heart trouble and ileitis. Lyndon Johnson, following J.F.K., had a history of heart attacks and a Rabelaisian appetite for all sorts of things that were not good for his coronary arteries, including quantities of Scotch. He abdicated the presidency in 1968, went home to the ranch and smoked himself to death...