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Article: Masterful.(The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate )
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- May 20, 2002
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate By Robert A. Caro. Alfred A. Knopf, 1,040 pages, $35.00
THE YEAR 1952 WAS A POTENTIALLY dangerous one for the NATO alliance. Western European nations were fearful of Soviet aggression and their leaders were hoping for strong assurances that the United States remained committed to their security.
The congressional debate in Washington was not reassuring. In the U.S. Senate that spring and summer; isolationists were ganging up, as usual, on President Harry Truman's foreign-aid program, vying to see who could slash the most from the $7 billion he had requested for European NATO members. The House had cut $1 ...