President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act. - 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,

After a while, the writers of the Allen Room invited me to lunch, which we thereafter ate almost every day in the employees’ cafeteria in the library basement. These writers included not just some who were already famous, but some who were, at the time, little better known than I was, like John Demaray, Lucy Komisar, Irene Mahoney and Susan Brownmiller, who was working on Against Our Will and would sit at the desk adjoining mine for the next two years, her petite feet, clad in brightly striped socks, sticking under the partition that divided our desks, giving me an odd feeling of companionship.

Senator Harding, who declared in his inaugural address that “We seek no part in directing the destinies of the world.