And he worked himself, worked himself. He had made up his mind to be President, and he was demonic in his drive. - Robert A. Caro

Johnson’s voting record — a record twenty years long, dating back to his arrival in the House of Representatives in 1937 and continuing up to that very day — was consistent with the accent and the word. During those twenty years, he had never supported civil rights legislation — any civil rights legislation. In Senate and House alike, his record was an unbroken one of votes against every civil rights bill that had ever come to a vote: against voting rights bills; against bills that would have struck at job discrimination and at segregation in other areas of American life; even against bills that would have protected blacks from lynching.

Said New York Post columnist William V. Shannon: “There is a growing tendency on the part of Americans to ‘consume’ political figures in much the same sense we consume entertainment personalities on television and in the movies.

If you can’t come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have no business in politics.