Ebook: The triumph & tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: the White House years

Prologue; Happy Days; Sleepless Nights; Nightmare Year; 16 "I Shall Not Seek and Will Not Accept ... "; 17 The King Assassination; 18 Who Is LBJ's Candidate?; 19 The Robert Kennedy Assassination; 20 The Fortas Fiasco; 21 The Democratic Convention and Presidential Campaign; 22 Winding Down; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; On Further Reflection; Source Notes; Index; About the Author.;& Ldquo;My effort here is to give firsthand testimony on the man and president I saw, & lsquo;with bark off, & rsquo; as he used to say when he wanted me to describe a difficult situation cold and true, with no punches pulled. & hellip;The Lyndon Johnson I knew was brave and brutal, compassionate and cruel, incredibly intelligent and infuriatingly insensitive, with shrewd and uncanny instinct for the jugular of his allies and adversaries. He could be altruistic and petty, caring and crude, generous and petulant, bluntly honest and calculatingly devious & mdash;all within the same few minutes. & rdquo; & m.