(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate
Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;
Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience— a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only y...
While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.
its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.
He could follow someone’s mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.
(Lyndon) Johnson created his own theater.
The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you,” he said. “The most important thing he has to say is what he’s trying not to say.
That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
Recalling his mother’s endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had “thought that mothers never had to sleep.
The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,
He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;
