Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
“I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.”
“I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.”