The dark side of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Subtitle: His Own Worst Enemy
Publisher: Dawnay
Published: 1968
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B. 1908-1973.
Description: "On the 6th of November, 1936," Haley writes, " Claudia Alta was joined by her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson...in acknowledging receipt of $21,000 in notes from her father, T. J. Taylor, to be paid off at $7,000 annually, beginning November 6, 1937, as settlement in full of her interest  in her mother's estate. Thus her "inherited wealth" from her mother's estate, as repeatedly mentioned in the press, consisted of a total of $21,000 in notes."
Table of contents: title: PART 1; title: Power-At Any Price; title: 1) His Own Worst Enemy   Page 11; title: No one ever set out to destroy Lyndon B. Johnson with the fierce determination the bearer of that name himself has envinced all his life.; title: A man who desperately wants to be believed and respected while his whole political career is built on the use of the The Big Lie and organized fraud;; title: A man who covets popularity with every fibre of his soul yet who would never for one moment hesitate to crush underfoot anyone who got in his way;; title: A man to whom the attainment of power by any and all means is the supreme ambition of his life;; title: A man unmoved by any principle except that of expediency;; title: A man who in a lifetime of public service manages to amass a private fortune of 14 million dollars;; title: A man who callously sacrifices millions of lives in order to win the most senseless war in history ---; title: Such a person cannot succeed, in the long run, in anything but self-destruction. In our generation, Hitler and Mussolini have set the pattern and Lyndon B. Johnson, ideologies apart (he has never had any) has followed in their footsteps.; title: And so the 36th president of the United States will go down in history as one of the most unloved and unlamented, if not indeed the most unloved and unlamented of American presidents, in striking contrast to the near-exalted status of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy.