Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Prologue: The Sunday Shift
• 2. The Beginning of the Day
• 3. The Bomb Thrower
• 4. Snowstorm in Mississippi
• 5. Playing President
• 6. The Keeper of the Flame
• 7. Man Alone
• 8. "The Candidate Has Disappeared"
• 9. Time of Triumph: Austin to Boston, 1960
• 10. The Last Roundup
• 11. A Friday Afternoon in Brussels
• 12. Forebodings
• 13. The President: Poison in the Power
• 14. Afternoon at Gettysburg, 1967
• 15. State of the Union
• 16. A Sunday at the White House
• 17. The Ninth Hour
• 18. The Close
• 19. Convulsion
• 20. "Well, See You Again, Sometime"
• A Note about the Author

About the Author

Horace Busby (1924–2000) served as a speechwriter and advisor to Lyndon Johnson during LBJ’s time in the House, the Senate, and the White House, where he was secretary of the cabinet from 1963 to 1965. Busby was born in Fort Worth and attended the University of Texas.