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trust

Robert Caro | trust

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

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trust

Robert Caro | trust

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And it’s never come back. It’s a trend that, if you’re liberal, is really discouraging.

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legal

Robert Caro | legal

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody’s switching to a computer. And I’m sort of laughed at.

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learning

Robert Caro | learning

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that’s written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

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history

Robert Caro | history

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

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Famous

Robert Caro | famous

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

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beauty

Quote from Robert Caro | beauty

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beauty

Quote from Robert Caro | beauty

beauty

Buy uk driving licence online. No, this is just a diving board above a puddle of water waiting to catch me safely. Om nom connect classic – random web game.