Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91
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Robert Caro – The master biographer reflects at 91

B1IntermediateOctober 30, 20261 hr 1 min
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If you do everything, you will win. That is the maxim by which Lyndon Johnson lived his life. My guest today is Robert Caro, and over the 50 years that he has spent writing

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about Lyndon Johnson, he has lived in the edges of the Texas Hill country to understand the poverty and loneliness of Johnson's youth. He has sifted through millions of documents

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in the Senate and presidential libraries of the entire nation, and he has chased down for interviews the former goon who helped Johnson steal an election

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