Politics is a dirty game and nobody played it better or dirtier than Lyndon Johnson. His results were staggering, both as Senate Majority Leader and then as “accidental President” (his term). He maneuvered into being two Civil Rights Acts, the Voting Rights Act, Head Start, Medicare, Medicaid and the Clean Air Act, plus many other landmark programs,  through ferocious willpower and blunt force. To read more, click here.