fetch quoted The passage of power by Robert A. Caro (The years of Lyndon Johnson)
Continues Johnson's career from the 1960 elections through his vice presidency to the first months …
"It was his most tenaciously maintained secret: a tenderness so rawly exposed, so vulnerable to painful abrasion, that it could only be shielded by angry compassion at human misery, manifest itself in love and loyalty toward those closet to him," Richard Goodwin says.
— The passage of power by Robert A. Caro (The years of Lyndon Johnson) (Page 235)
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