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This is a great biography of Lyndon Johnson. I'd say LBJ is both one of our best presidents and one of our worst. His record of passing legislation is second only perhaps to his hero FDR and I especially admire his ramming the Civil Rights and Voting Rights bills through congress in '64 and '65 which he could have opted to water down. He took the risk of losing the entire Democratic South in the election of 1964 for this stand.

On the other hand, LBJ is more responsible than JFK or Nixon for the travesty in Viet Nam. Like Nixon, LBJ seemed to be haunted by mental demons, extremely conflicted, preventing him from doing the right thing in Viet Nam war, escalating the war instead of ending it.

I give 5 stars to the book, 5 stars to LBJ as president on the domestic side and 1 star on the foreign policy side.