the democrats, would give a copy of this book to each new senator and it would be signed by william s. white and lyndon johnson said they were cultivating this image at and johnson believe that senators who believe this would be more likely to defer to his leadership because that is how you get ahead according to william s. white. the flipside of this inner club view was the idea that there are a handful of mavericks, independent like paul douglas of illinois who don't abide by these norms but are very much according to this conventional portrait, ineffective senators as a result. they don't amount to that much in the institution. a related aspect of this theme is the idea that the senate has really dominated by conservative coalition, a bipartisan coalition of southern democrats and midwestern and western republican, also some eastern republicans were conservative. and, if you look at the senate in that period, that they committee chairs, the most powerful committee chairs tend to be southern democrats and they often work closely with senior republicans on legislation so it is a very differ

another second thing that is missing is that these matters that are so dismissed by people like william s. white and lyndon johnson actually were just isolated individuals. if you think about it, and put them all together, they are often, these are people are often reelected many times and often have a big impact on public debate. they are really public figures working with national liberal interest groups among the democrats at about conservative causes such as those concerned about domestic comedies and among the republicans, and really using the same as a platform to become important figures in the country. so i think this notion of the mavericks is just lacking influences is wrong. you can see that at go today in greater frequency with some of the maverick senators today. >> and then the final point i would make about this conventional portrait is that one aspect of the johnson senate that people think about is if institution were kind of ideological and partisan warfare has receded and to have this norm governing cooperative institution. my sense is that actually captures to the extent that

the democrats, would give a copy of this book to each new senator and it would be signed by william s. whiteand lyndon johnson said they were cultivating this image at and johnson believe that senators who believe this would be more likely to defer to his leadership because that is how you get ahead according to william s. white. the flipside of this inner club view was the idea that there are a handful of mavericks, independent like paul douglas of illinois who don't abide by these norms but are very much according to this conventional portrait, ineffective senators as a result. they don't amount to that much in the institution. a related aspect of this theme is the idea that the senate has really dominated by conservative coalition, a bipartisan coalition of southern democrats and midwestern and western republican, also some eastern republicans were conservative. and, if you look at the senate in that period, that they committee chairs, the most powerful committee chairs tend to be southern democrats and they often work closely with senior republicans on legislation so it is a very differe

the democrats, would give a copy of this book to each new senator and it would be signed by william s. white and lyndon johnson said they were cultivating this image at and johnson believe that senators who believe this would be more likely to defer to his leadership because that is how you get ahead according to william s. white. the flipside of this inner club view was the idea that there are a handful of mavericks, independent like paul douglas of illinois who don't abide by these norms but are very much according to this conventional portrait, ineffective senators as a result. they don't amount to that much in the institution. a related aspect of this theme is the idea that the senate has really dominated by conservative coalition, a bipartisan coalition of southern democrats and midwestern and western republican, also some eastern republicans were conservative. and, if you look at the senate in that period, that they committee chairs, the most powerful committee chairs tend to be southern democrats and they often work closely with senior republicans on legislation so it is a very differ