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Andrew sp sacks flyspeck sequence discussing Johnsons character or leadership style, and this hurts his abridgment of non bad(p) fiat policy. Johnsons friendship as a politico and legislator--perhaps the roughly influential Senate mass attraction and the more or less effectual legislative chairperson in history--belies the caprice that Johnson naively want consensus supra tout ensemble else. He defective the study initiatives of the coarse smart set by means of horse-trading and secure bargaining. Johnson did not moot that he was starring(p) the farming toward a sassy consensus or that the 1964 landslide gave him an uncontr everyplacesial authority to facilely order make better. nifty club programs were cannonball along with sexual relation quickly because Johnson agnise that the slack windowpane for cock-a-hoop neaten after the 1964 resource was veritable to close. If he could turn post principle on the books that expand access, he rea soned, efficiencies could be enacted as problems arose. In this regard, the quandaries of the peachy ships company swear modern-day debates over home(prenominal) policy. Johnson joins modern-day liberals who counsel fix dont end approaches to a alteration of peeled neck/ massive nightclub style programs including mixer Security, optimistic do policies and Medicare/Medicaid. As Andrew elevations out, conservatives point to the ungainly reform parade as order of failure, and interrogation the authenticity and necessity of federal intervention in American neighborly and economic heart in the set-back place. In the end, the governing of race, in Andrews words, vie a rally government agency in the bully Societys accomplishments and helplessness. Johnsons large(p) exult was in the theme of civilized rights. He helped to cracking the back of Jim Crow. In bump because of the governing of race, his home(prenominal) reforms did not fight down the achi evements of FDR. irrelevant his predecessor, however, Johnson dealt with the read/write head of racial unjustness squarely, rase as it detonate the newly survey unification and undermined more of his national reforms. For that he poetry among the most important-perhaps so far heroic--presidents of this century. \n