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  1. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Johnson's voting record-a record twenty years long, dating back to his arrival in the House of Representatives in 1937 and continuing up to that very day-was consistent with the accent and the word. During those twenty years, he had never supported civil rights legislation-any civil rights legislation. In Senate and House alike, his record was an unbroken one of votes against every civil rights bill that had ever come to a vote: against voting rights bills; against bills that would have struck at job discrimination and at segregation in other areas of American life; even against bills that would have protected blacks from lynching.
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  2. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    The belief that "a political system created in a much simpler economic era still affords the people effective control through their votes over the complex industrial state which has come into being" is a popular delusion.
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  3. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Russell answered, "Well, no-well, it certainly has permitted me to have more hours to work … but I would not recommend it to anyone. If I had my life to do over again, I would certainly get married.
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  4. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.
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  5. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;"
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  6. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.
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  7. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    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.
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  8. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,
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  9. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.
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  10. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    That speech {Daniel Webster's} "raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
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  11. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Power corrupts-that has been said and written so often that it has become a cliché. But what is never said, but is just as true, is that power reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, he must conceal those traits that might make others reluctant to give it to him, that might even make them refuse to give it to him. Once the man has power, it is no longer necessary for him to hide those traits. In
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  12. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    he thought, "My own R. B. Russell, Jr.-I was crazy with happiness." He said then what he was to repeat many times: "That is me living all over again.
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