The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson's Final Days in Office Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson's Final Days in Office Book

"I have made up my mind. I canâ??t get peace in Vietnam and be President too.â? So begins this posthumously discovered account of Lyndon Johnsonâ??s final days in office. The Thirty-First of March is an indelible portrait of a president and a presidency at a time of crisis, and spans twenty years of a close working and personal relationship between Johnson and Horace Busby. It was Busbyâ??s job to â??put a little Churchillâ? into Johnsonâ??s orations, and his skill earned him a position of trust on LBJâ??s staff from the earliest days of his career as a congressman in Texas to the twilight of his presidency. From the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, when Busby was asked by the newly sworn-in president to sit by his bedside during his first troubled nights in office, to the concerns that defined the Great Society, Busby not only articulated and refined Johnsonâ??s political thinking, he helped shape the most ambitious, far-reaching legislative agenda since FDRâ??s New Deal. Here is Johnson the politician, Johnson the schemer, Johnson who advised against JFK riding in an open limousine that fateful day in Dallas, and Johnson the father, sickened by the men fighting and dying in Vietnam on his behalf. The Thirty-First of March is a rare glimpse into the inner sanctum of Johnsonâ??s presidency. Read More

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  • 0374530211
  • 9780374530211
  • Horace Busby
  • 21 February 2006
  • Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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