
Robert Caro reads from and discusses his book "The Years of Lyndon Johnson"
Studs Terkel Archive Podcast
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Lyndon Johnson's Drive
The key word, I suppose, the one word to describe LBJ, the word is energy. Energy and energy that came from, I think, desperation and fear. His boyhood was so terrible that he would do anything to get out of it and stay out of the hill country. But throughout there is this protagonist, this figure who has a drive.
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