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Part I: Alliances
Chapter 1: It’s Not Who You Know; It’s Who You Get to Know
This chapter emphasizes the importance of one on one conversation. Lyndon B. Johnson was an expert at this strategy called “retail politics.” It is approaching a person one at a time because it makes a relationship and bond grow by one individual at a time. Johnson would learn everything about every single person which enabled him to be so successful. Johnson took this retail politics and it was later called the “Johnson Treatment.” Johnson made every person feel extremely crucial and every problem they had was very important to him. Johnson made every person feel like they had a great significance in Johnson’s life. He cared for others feelings and problems very …show more content…

Acting like a winner can give you positivity and motivation you need to actually win. Bill Clinton acted like a winner his entire campaign and ended up being president. Every problem can be made into a joke and turned around into an affirmative direction. By hanging a lantern on your problem, you can then utilize a spin. Nixon and his illegal trust situation was happening, he gave a famous speech called “Checkers.” He talked on his behalf about his personal worth (putting a lantern on your problems) and then “spinning” it with saying all politicians should give a list of their assets.

Chapter 12: “The Press Is the Enemy”
Be careful who you talk to because you never know who is going to hear. Keeping a clean mouth and not exposing or saying anything you wouldn’t want other people to know is a bad mistake. Especially if you talk to the media because the media was slur your words and make up an entire different story than you told them. It is important to be professional and clear when speaking to the media. It could ruin your reputation and make you look very bad. The media wants the best most scandalous stories they can get their hands on. If it’s a candidate running for president and they got their hands on one of the best scandals around, that candidate could lose publicity and it can definitely hurt the image of the candidate. Earl Butz got caught telling an offensive racist joke about Rolling Stones; it does not matter if it was on/off record. It can still affect anyone who says anything offensive or

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In the article “Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830,” the author, Alfred A. Cave, writes about President Jackson’s abuse of power. He is arguing that Jackson abused his power when he was enforcing the Indian Removal Act. He argues that Jackson broke guarantees he made to the Indians. He uses a political methodology and uses secondary sources.

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First, Johnson wanted people to be treated the same. Lyndon taught at Welhausen Elementary School, Cotulla, Texas, May 7, 1929. “My students were poor and they often came to class without breakfast, hungry. They knew even in their youth the pain of prejudice”, Johnson said in a speech called “The American Promise” in March 15,1965. If he would push the civil rights for equality he would be able to get more voters and seem

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    One reason that reveals President Johnson’s principled motivation can be found in Doc A. L.B.J first job after college was being a teacher in Cotulla, Texas. He was teaching Mexican children who were poor but tried their best to learn and look nice for school. He wanted to teach this school of 5,6, and 7 graders because at the time there was poverty and segregation and was willing help even if

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One way Johnson does this is by building up his trust with congress as well as his people through promising appeals. Johnson often uses “we” in most of his speech to prove to the citizens that it is not just them in the fight, but that he is providing assistance to reach their intentions. He continues to build that trust throughout his speech by putting himself as a human as well, not just as the leader of the country. Since Johnson is a white man who is trying to fight for African American rights during that era, it is quite hard to do so considering whites once hated blacks. This being said, it's Johnson's duty to enforce that trust to make the African Americans believe he is attempting to better their lives.

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People who are desperate to become accepted by all the people in America, can do some pretty unpredictable things. Lyndon B. Johnson is an example of this. Before he became president, Johnson changed his mind about some things and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Why did L.B.J. sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act for political reasons like, gaining the approval of the public, showing people that he has changed, and to please the people of America.

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Allan M. Winkler’s Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America talks and narrates the life about one of the most famous presidents that the United States had, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Born into a family with a lot of wealth and power, Franklin D. Roosevelt led the country through two of its greatest confrontations, the Great Depression and the World War ll. Allan Winkler locus in Roosevelt’s missteps and achievements and immerses readers in the personal and political sides of one of the most important figures in the history of the United States. Allan Winkler describes very strong the infancy and the academic achievements of Franklin. His parents James and Sara Roosevelt gave him the best education with tutors at home.

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On March 15, 1965, Lyndon Baines Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress to urge the passage of the Voting Rights Act and outlined his plans for supporting voting rights. In his speech, Johnson not only advocated policy, he borrowed the language of the civil rights movement, and he represents a key moment in the civil rights movement as well as a culturally significant speech in American letters and he tied the movement to American history. This message was addressed to the presidency and the members of the congress.

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Is Andrew Jackson a hero or a villain? Throughout history Jackson has been viewed as both. Some see him as a war hero and the people’s president. Others see him as a racist and a political tyrant. To me, Andrew Jackson is more of a hero.

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“It’s not personal, Dick, it’s just politics.” This one line paints the whole picture of the “All the way” president, Lyndon B. Johnson, an accidental president, a hero, and a very ruthless bully to anyone who stood in his way. By, Robert Schenkkan, the fast paced play ‘All the Way’ put on by the Dallas Theatre Center, was set in the first year of Johnson’s presidency showing how LBJ was willing to do anything and ruin anyone in the way of what he wanted. This very detailed production (Maybe a little too detailed), really depicted this wonderful, sneaky, and powerful snake of man during his life of power. “All the Way” was Johnson’s slogan during his failed run for president; However, he was appointed to office after the assassination of JFK.

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Poverty; a word that is commonly used so often when it comes to individuals being a low classed, low income, American citizen who struggle to find success and an efficient job that pays well. In Barbara Ehrenreich’s article It Is Expensive to Be Poor, published in the online news article company The Atlantic, on January 13,2014, she argues that those who are struggling to support their own family or find an efficient well paying job are obtaining no support from the self-centered government. Ehrenreich also tries to inform the readers that those who are in poverty are treated unfairly and unjust. Through Ehrenreich’s argumentative article, she tries to persuade the readers through reasoning, credible personal background and history, as well as emotional appeals.

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