Huffington Magazine Issue 12-13 | Page 38

BY RYAN GRIM AND SAM STEIN ILLUSTRATION BY JEFFREY DECOSTER IN THE DAYS following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson was left to pursue his predecessor’s unfinished legislative agenda. White House insiders considered the task nearly impossible. The civil rights bill was bottled up in the House Rules Committee, where its chairman was intent on running out the clock HUFFINGTON 09.09.12 PROMISED A NEW KIND OF POLITICS. INSTEAD HE PLAYED THE SAME OLD GAME. THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION INSIDE MAN OBAMA