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Joey
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Re: The New and Improved Joey? thread
Reply #7771 - Jul 29th, 2012 at 1:47pm
" The drama into which Lyndon Johnson had been plunged was a drama that had begun with the transfer of power -- great power -- in an instant , without warning . It had continued with the assumption and use of that power in its very early stages -- in its first three days , in what is called the " transition " between the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations , the passage of power from one Administration to the other . And in these early stages , already perilious because of circumstances that made it difficult for him to create an impression of continuity and confidence , it was a passage through uncharted waters , a passage that in significant ways was without parallel in American history . No precedents existed to guide Lyndon Johnson through some of the problems that confronted him . He had had to create his own precedents , and had done so with such success that Time's Sidey , writing years later , said , " Even now ... one must marvel at Johnson's total grasp of the machinery of government . There was ' no script ' for what he had done , Sidey said , and yet " his assumption of power " was " flawless . "
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