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 scraps of news to...

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 laughing in...

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 technique, “the Johnson Treatment,” and it wasn’t something anyone wanted to …

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, you’ve got to get out of my way.’ However, he deployed the treatment with both sides.

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 "The Johnson Treatment."

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. But much of LBJ’s personality can be gleaned from stories of those who saw him at his most up close and personal: his Secret Service detail.

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 lessons of loyalty, the arts of persuasion and power, and the insecurity of lean times.

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 hand that had been placed on...

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 colleague, and invade their personal space by leaning …