We experience the extraordinary sequence of events in which LBJ somehow contrived to run and not to run for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1960, and his almost three years of impotent agony as Vice President, from January 1961 up to his arrival in Dallas along with his chief. Passage of Power tells the story of Johnson’s arrival in the White House in November 1963. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Volume 4: The Passage of Power. Robert Caro. However, he has finally got his man into the White House, ready to show his remarkable ability to translate ideals that Kennedy could only dream about into tangible legislation, written, as Johnson would famously say, into the book of law. Caro, who has already spent 36 years chronicling Johnson’s 38-year Washington career (1931-69), has still barely mentioned Vietnam. But the extraordinary journey is not yet complete. The first volume of his epic, multi-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson appeared thirty years ago, and follow-up volumes have appeared in 1990, 2002, and now in 2012. Robert Caro has been studying Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), since 1976.
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