He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination; - 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,

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.

The rivers rose, and, when they receded, sucked more of the fertile soil back down with them, to run down the Pedernales to the Colorado, down the Colorado to the Gulf.