In democratic America, supposedly, ultimate power rests in the voters, and the man for whom the majority of them cast their votes is the repository o… - Robert A. Caro

Russell called the move “a lynching of orderly procedure in the Senate.” Johnson’s angry response — that “this was the only kind of lynching he had ever heard Russell object to” — was blurted out only in private,

With a note of sadness, Wicker wrote in 1983 that “the reverence, the childlike dependence, the willingness to follow where the President leads, the trust, are long gone — gone, surely, with Watergate, but gone before that.… After Lyndon Johnson, after the ugly war that consumed him, trust in ‘the President’ was tarnished forever.” That tarnishing revolutionized politics and government in the United States. The shredding of the delicate yet crucial fabric of credence and faith between the people of the United States and the man they had placed in the White House occurred during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.

Why political power? Because political power shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about.