Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Johnson was both man and myth . . . . As myth, he masteredCongress, bending it to his will. Yet the man passed bills as presidentand majority leader by trading political plums for key Congressional votes.Th ough critics carped at his refusal to return U.S. troops from Vietnam,they praised him for signing into law civil and voting rights acts, educationand public housing aid, Medicare, and M...
Lyndon Johnson was both man and myth . . . . As myth, he masteredCongress, bending it to his will. Yet the man passed bills as presidentand majority leader by trading political plums for key Congressional votes.Th ough critics carped at his refusal to return U.S. troops from Vietnam,they praised him for signing into law civil and voting rights acts, educationand public housing aid, Medicare, and M...
