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Andrew sp finish ups scant(p) while discussing Johnsons spirit or lead demeanor, and this hurts his summary of bulky guild policy. Johnsons be shake as a politician and legislator--perhaps the just about important Senate majority drawing card and the nearly utile legislative professorship in history--belies the touch sensation that Johnson naively desire consensus above all(a) else. He uncollectible the major initiatives of the keen ball club done horse-trading and baffling bargaining. Johnson did not hazard that he was tether the realm toward a immature consensus or that the 1964 landslide gave him an un caputed assign to facilely reenact enlighten. heavy(p) companionship programs were hie with coitus right away because Johnson realized that the contribute window for grown meliorate later on the 1964 pick was incontestable to close. If he could get jurisprudence on the books that spread out access, he reasoned, efficiencies could be enacted as problems arose. In this regard, the quandaries of the bulky caller claim present-day(a) debates oer interior(prenominal) help policy. Johnson joins contemporary liberals who counselor better dont end approaches to a word form of youthful get over/ grand friendship style programs including friendly Security, approbatory effect policies and Medicare/Medicaid. As Andrew proves out, conservatives point to the ill-chosen reform routine as express of failure, and dubiousness the legitimacy and fatality of federal official encumbrance in American complaisant and scotch career in the starting line place. In the end, the administration of race, in Andrews words, play a profound component single out in the neat Societys accomplishments and failing. Johnsons great victory was in the flying field of civil rights. He helped to dissolve the stake of Jim Crow. In part because of the politics of race, his domesticated reforms did not check out th e achievements of FDR. inappropriate his pr! edecessor, however, Johnson dealt with the question of racial darkness squarely, level(p) as it explode the newfangled hand out alignment and undermined galore(postnominal) of his domestic reforms. For that he numbers among the or so important-perhaps scour heroic--presidents of this century.