1993年9月23日 · But more than anything else, LBJ's phone calls reveal the consummate politician at work, a man never too busy to contact an old friend recovering from illness, cagily hand …

2008年4月18日 · Johnson lived to dominate, and he used crass behavior to bend people to his will. At 6-ft., 3-in. tall and 210 lbs., he liked to lean over people, spitting, swearing, belching, or …

President Lyndon Johnson was famous for using what's called "the Johnson Treatment," or a set of irresistible persuasion tactics. In this phone call on December 20, 1963, he talks with...

President Lyndon Johnson famously had a very particular way of working with other politicians, and as it turns out, his genitals were a pretty big part of it. People who knew him called this …

2018年8月13日 · In pursuit of the former, LBJ leaned heavily on Richard Russell, the leader of the Southern caucus and key impediment to Civil Rights legislation. Johnson allegedly said, ‘Dick, …

2018年7月30日 · Lyndon Johnson's was one of the most legislatively active presidencies in history. How did he do it? A unique blend of persuasive tactics often colloquially described as …

President Lyndon B. Johnson had a notoriously caustic personality. He famously bullied senators into falling in line on votes by using a mixture of intimidation, threats, and promises of rewards. …

Lyndon Baines Johnson was born just after the turn of the 20th century in the rugged and isolated Hill Country of Texas. It was a character-building, hardscrabble land where he learned the …

2010年2月23日 · Approaching the senator, Johnson would lean over him, perhaps chatting amiably for a moment or two about inconsequential matters, but with his weight resting on one …

2010年1月19日 · LBJ certainly didn’t hold anything back – another one of his somewhat humorous qualities was the “Johnson Treatment” where he would stand awkwardly close to a …