the second thing that's happening, the bobby baker scandal is erupting in washington, and johnson's about to be implicated. >> rose: bob baker was his right-hand man in the senate when he was running for senate. >> so at the very moment that the motorcade is going through dallas, back in washington in a small room in the senate office building, a man is testifying who for the first time is going to link lyndon johnson to the bobby baker scandal, and he's producing documents and sliding them across the table, the documents that link johnson to the scandal. so this is happening at the moment that the motorcade is going by, and i write in the book that, you know, jawness-- kennedy's assurances that johnson would be on the ticket were given what he was seeing for himself in texas about johnson's lack of power, and given about the scandal which was about to erupt in washington about johnson, his assurances must start to have a very hollow ring. >> rose: also, as you point out, a magazine was getting ready to do an investigation of his financial circumstances and how he had gained control of te

. >> it wasn't just that, johnson comes to the senate and asks bobby baker the senate secretary he doesn't ask about the senate rules, baker says everyone else knew senator came in and asked me about the rules, lyndon johnson had one question, who has the power around here and i told them will there is only one power here, richard russell, johnson doesn't ask for the best he asks to get on russell's committee, armed services and starts staying late and say to russell, russell was a bachelor and lonely, johnson would say first let's get a hamburger, he know where russell -- why don't you come home for dinner and russell usually didn't do that, lyndon would say you have to eat somewhere, and when you say what are the means by which lyndon johnson rose so fast a lot of it is what you are talking about, this interpersonal relationship. >> if i might bring in obama for a second, this is not something alien to him, when he was in the state senate in illinois the protege of a man named jones who was a party leader, and he was sort of a professional son to jones in a way bob has written about lbj