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