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Daniel Finkelstein posts about Obama's new role model: LBJ. I loved this:
LBJ used to have big charts where he could know which congressman or
senator he needed to call at every instant. He would then invite them
to breakfast, cocktails, call them at any hour of the day or night.He called one senator at 3 a.m. and said to the senator, 'I hope I
didn't wake you up,' and the senator replied, 'Oh no, I was just lying
here hoping my president would call.'
Mention of LBJ gives me another chance to plug what I consider to be not just the greatest biography or political book I have ever read but - and I mean this - the greatest book, per se: Robert Caro's ongoing biography of LBJ.
Here is my review of Master of the Senate.