제가 본 린던 존슨의 마직막 생은, 제가 그의 자서전을 돕고 있었을 때었고, 너무나도 오랜 세월동안 일, 권력, 그리고 개인적인 성공을 추구하였기에 대통령의 직을 마쳤을 때, 그에겐 더 살아갈 그 어떤 정신적 힘도 남아있지 않았습니다.
The Lyndon Johnson that I saw in the last years of his life, when I helped him on his memoirs, was a man who had spent so many years in the pursuit of work, power and individual success, that he had absolutely no psychic or emotional resources left to get him through the days once the presidency was gone.