Learning from LBJ

Professor Jon Lauck of South Dakota State University has kindly forwarded us his piece from today’s Roll Call on Tom Daschle’s difficult balancing act representing a conservative state while serving as minority leader of a liberal senate contingent. Professor Lauck’s piece is “Like Lyndon Johnson, Daschle has trouble balancing two jobs.” We hope his assessment of Daschle’s difficulties at home in South Dakota are not overly optimistic; it give us great pleasure to contemplate them as described here:

In his recent memoir [click here for Professor Lauck’s review], Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) says he read Robert Caro

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