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At that moment Moody had a sudden clear understanding of what had already happened that morning: his life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two.
“And, in fact, had Johnson’s plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been “just the way it was.”
― The Passage of Power
― The Passage of Power
“The second most powerful man in the country.” All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking “nothing jobs” and making them into something—something big. And now, no sooner”
― The Passage of Power
― The Passage of Power
“strength with which President Kennedy dispatched his enemies”—a tribute couched in rather remarkable words: Johnson described Kennedy “when he looks you straight in the eye and puts that knife into you without flinching.”
― The Passage of Power
― The Passage of Power
“Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, “to hang on to [the power] he had wielded as Majority Leader” as a “de facto Majority Leader”; Johnson “had the illusions that he could be in a sense, as Vice President, the Majority Leader.” His proposal violated what was to these senators one of the Senate’s most sacred precepts—its independence of the executive branch; he was proposing that a member of that branch preside over their meetings.”
― The Passage of Power
― The Passage of Power
“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country” that they summoned up, and, in some ways, summed up, the best of the American spirit, igniting hopes so that, almost on the instant it seemed, they summoned up a new era for Americans, an era of ideals, of brightness, of hope.”
― The Passage of Power
― The Passage of Power
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