george reidy's for tough. george reidy's were tough. think it was entertaining, but valenti, i think he was posturing for history at that point. you a betterives look at policy. the one i found the best was harry mcpherson's book, political education, which has become a classic for people in washington. it is not just about the white house years. mcpherson strikes you as what all his contemporaries said he was, just thoughtful and serious individual who could take johnson for good and bad. brian: we have to act fast. after the white house, what did marvin watson do? joshua: she went back to texas -- he went back to texas. brian: lobbying? we talked about jack. we talked about bill moyers. i do not know a lot about sorenson's career. healy stayed around for a couple weeks or months. he was just great stricken by kennedy's assassination. stricken by kennedy's assassination. brian: you have 80% of your stuff in there. days later, captain graham said -- katharine graham said to show sorenson a little love. he was marvelous but also a little

my favorite on page 31 from george reidy, johnson was, quote, a man goaded by an insatiable need for public acclaim. sound familiar? given the similarities, given the similarities and character what allowed johnson to rise above his flaws? >> he was all of those things, to be sure but he was also an inveterate politician and a very good one and i think he knew how to get incredible work products out of people. that is a narrative strain we are familiar with. in the parlance today he was results driven. he had a certain burning focus and he focused on politics. and no outside interests, didn't read much. here at 300,000 words a week. and at his ranch, he would occasionally hunt, he had no interest in life outside politics so you focus yourself at intently on one thing chances are you might be good at it. a lot of this book is about the people johnson picked, he picked some extraordinary ones. harold mentioned a few of them. bill moyer, joe california who is well known to us at hunter. tell us a little bit about these key aids. >> the vantage point of jack valencia, he was 46 years old