The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)

by Robert A. Caro

We had to pry Kennedy’s fingers off his neck. It really scared us.” At law school, at the University of Virginia, “he became more insensitive and selfish … known for his rudeness … a bit of a lout,” with an anger so close to the surface that it showed as clench-fisted rage. He also became known, and regarded warily, for his huge dogs. He would “always have these colossal dogs around him,” at one time a large German police dog “who liked to bite”—and whom he kept unleashed; at another time two fierce Doberman pinschers that, another friend says, “we had a terrible time with.”