the years of lyndon johnson the path to power

Studs Terkel You know the similarity you're here in Chicago and the - remar- I read that, and he turned down the dough for that goal, the Grail, power in office. He knew that he needed that first, that was what he wanted most. Studs Terkel But we know he was not averse to a buck or two as it comes out in your volumes, this and others, is that power. Studs Terkel So there's something else he wanted more than money. But as much as Lyndon Johnson wanted money, and he wanted it desperately, he turned this offer down because he felt that accepting oil money would hurt him politically. Robert Caro Well, what I thought was significant about this was that the offer was for an oil interest worth almost three quarters of a million dollars. Studs Terkel And this provocative opening paragraph, the introduction to Caro's book 'Path to Power', sets us off. So when Brown, relaxing in the still warm autumn sun at the luxurious Greenbrier Hotel in the mountains of West Virginia heard the third man, Charles Marsh, make his offer to Lyndon Johnson, he felt sure he knew what the answer would be.' Thirty-two-year-old congressman Lyndon Johnson had been pleading with one of the other two men, George Brown, to find him a business in which he could make a little money.

The third was poor, so poor that he had only recently purchased the first suit he had ever owned that fit correctly, and desperately anxious not to be. Robert Caro 'Two of the men lying on the blanket that day in 1940 were rich. In a moment his reflections and the book after this message. Knopf the publishers, and Bob Caro my guest today. And this huge and remarkable biography of Johnson, Volume 1 is called 'The Years of Lyndon Johnson', and this particular volume is 'The Path to Power'. Bob Caro you'll recall is the Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award winner for his quite remarkable study of power in Robert Moses, the builder in New York, called 'The Power Broker', and again power is the word. You've heard it's the 'Book of the Month Club' choice. Maybe a symbol of that drive to be it, number one, and there have been a number of studies of LBJ, but certainly the most thorough, and one of the most exciting, is that of Robert Caro on his Volume 1. Johnson, in his life, in his drive, in his energy, in his shall we say detours from principle, and there were many indeed.

Studs Terkel How do you best figure out our country, the United States of America? There's a theory that the study of one particular person may give you the best idea of America during the past half century, and that person is Lyndon B.

The years of lyndon johnson the path to power