[PJ-Comix]

I really looking forward to this book. I've read the first three LBJ volumes by Caro and they were terrific. I even paid full price for Master of the Senate which was the first (and only) time I ever paid the full amount for a book. That's how much I wanted to read it.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

And for background by the former Bush spokesman’s attorney father see:

http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Money-Power-L-B-J-Killed/dp/0963784625/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331139420&sr=1-1-fkmr1

Also explains the human sacrifice that lead to where the DemocRAT party finds itself today.

[don-o]

forced through Congress bills on the budget and civil rights that it had determined to let die;

I wonder if the book gets to the truth of a quote attributed to LBJ?

"Once, while on a trip with two governors, Johnson reportedly made the following comment in explaining why the civil rights bill was so important to him. He said it was simple: 'I'll have them n*****s voting Democratic for two hundred years.'"

[Jack Hammer]

“The Passage of Power follows Johnson through.... the most triumphant periods of his career.”

Sorry, I simply don’t recall any “triumphant periods” in the career of this ignorant megalomaniac.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

It gives us for the first time the story of the assassination from the viewpoint of Lyndon Johnson himself . . . and here it is!

[gitmogrunt]

LBJ one big lesson in disaster.

[ansel12]

JFK was as bad as LBJ, he just wasn’t as successful in getting his goals accomplished, his death helped the Democrats do that.

This is what destroyed America.

“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”