The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years

by Califano, Joseph A.

• ISBN13: 9780890969601
• ISBN10: 0890969604
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

In this classic portrait of LBJ, Joseph A. Califano reveals the giant at close hand. Califano captures his mentor's lively, irascible spirit as he puts us in the White House alongside LBJ during the trauma of the Vietnam War and the creation of the Great Society. A new afterword draws on the insights offered by tapes released by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library after the book's original publication to provide further perspective for the complex picture Califano has drawn.

Author Biography

Joseph A. Califano, Jr., is founding chairman and president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA).

Table of Contents

Prologue	9	(6)
HAPPY DAYS	15	(150)
The Beginning	17	(14)
The Decision	31	(22)
Racing Against High Expectations	53	(22)
The War Against Poverty and the Battle for Beauty	75	(11)
Scrambling	86	(20)
Guns and Butter	106	(16)
Going for the Great Society	122	(27)
The Great 89th	149	(16)
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS	165	(86)
The Press and the Credibility Gap	167	(9)
State of the Union 1967	176	(20)
Who Shall Serve in Vietnam When Not All Serve	196	(8)
Six-Day War	204	(3)
Burn, Baby, Burn!	207	(20)
Arm Twisting for the Nation's Capital	227	(15)
The Going Gets Tougher	242	(9)
NIGHTMARE YEAR	251	(91)
``I Shall Not Seek and Will Not Accept...''	253	(20)
The King Assassination	273	(16)
Who Is LBJ's Candidate?	289	(5)
The Robert Kennedy Assassination	294	(13)
The Fortas Fiasco	307	(11)
The Democratic Convention and Presidential Campaign	318	(12)
Winding Down	330	(12)
Epilogue	342	(1)
Acknowledgments	343	(2)
On Further Reflection: An Afterword	345	(16)
Source Notes	361	(40)
Index	401