Actually yesterday. Thrust into the presidency, he used his US Senate contacts to push through the most important social legislation since FDR. Love him or hate him, he mattered.
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Originally posted by mike renfroActually yesterday. Thrust into the presidency, he used his US Senate contacts to push through the most important social legislation since FDR. Love him or hate him, he mattered.
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The best political biography I've ever read was Robert Caro's series on LBJ (currently a trilogy with one more supposedly on the way). Turns out that LBJ was a lot more fascinating (and weird) than I would have thought, and Caro turns his life into a page-turner. Highly recommended must-read.
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