While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men — a great reader of men. - Robert A. Caro

He talked a lot about girls, too. His brother, Sam Houston Johnson, recalls that more than once, when he visited his brother at San Marcos, Lyndon, coming back into the room naked after a shower, would take his penis in his hand, and say: “Well, I’ve gotta take ol’ Jumbo here and give him some exercise. I wonder who I’ll fuck tonight.

The common problem, yours and mine, everyone’s/Is not to fancy what were fair in life/Provided it could be — but finding first/What may be and how to make it fair up to our means.

determining the essence of different points of view (what Lyndon Johnson called “listening”),