Authenticity Quote by Robert A. Caro

“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country” that they summoned…

— Robert A. Caro

“And, in fact, had Johnson’s plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been “just the way it was.”

— Robert A. Caro

“As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children;…

— Robert A. Caro

“On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity would hold…

— Robert A. Caro

“Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s sacred curtain…

— Robert A. Caro

“I, sir, take a different view of the whole matter. I look upon Ohio and South Carolina to be parts of one whole—parts of…

— Robert A. Caro

“A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers –…

— Robert A. Caro

“MR. CALHOUN.   Never, never. MR. WEBSTER.   What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN.   Always, always. MR. WEBSTER.   And I honor him for it.”

— Robert A. Caro

“When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that “You don’t have to explain something you haven’t said,”

— Robert A. Caro

“...his success in public relations had been due primarily to his masterful utilization of a single public relations technique: identifying himself with a popular…

— Robert A. Caro

“With a note of sadness, Wicker wrote in 1983 that “the reverence, the childlike dependence, the willingness to follow where the President leads, the…

— Robert A. Caro

“He won that election in the byways,” Bill Deason says. Ava Cox says: “That’s what made Lyndon Johnson be elected the first time.… He…

— Robert A. Caro