Book of the Week

With all the hype on Chris Matthews new book on Robert Kennedy, I thought it would be nice to re-recommend books on the two individuals who actually accomplished the legislative deeds that John and Robert Kennedy dreamed about. These books are

The four-volume Robert Caro series on Lyndon Johnson and the Carl Solberg biography of Hubert Humphrey.

 If not for Vietnam, the country would have been so much better off if the Johnson/Humphrey Administration had had two full terms. The programs we take for granted today like Civil Rights, the Peace Corp (a Humphrey idea the Kennedys built on) Medicare and Headstart would not have been possible if not for the progressive values of these two men. People do need to remember while the Kennedy's knew how to project an image, it was Johnson and Humphrey that was able to get most of the results.