LYNDON B. JOHNSON By Peter F. Drucker

“Lyndon B. Johnson destroyed his presidency, in large measure, by not knowing that he, unlike Eisenhower, was a listener. His predecessor, John F. Kennedy, who knew that he was a reader, had assembled as his assistants a brilliant group of writers such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the historian, and Bill Moyers, a first-rate journalist. Kennedy made sure that they first wrote to him before discussing their memos in person. Johnson kept these people as his staff and they kept on writing. He never, apparently, got one word of what they wrote. Yet, as a senator, Johnson, only four years earlier, had been superb; for parliamentarians have to be, above all, listeners.”

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LYNDON B. JOHNSON By Peter F. Drucker

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