Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.
Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.
It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.
My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.
If you look at the Constitution, the two clauses of the Constitution make it very clear the president shall nominate, and the Senate shall provide advice and consent. It's been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.
There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.