Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America

by Jonathan Darman

That was his real greatness: urging people to commit to take real risk, to work and to make sacrifices for noble goals even if they couldn’t know how long it would take for those goals to be fulfilled. “All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days,” he said in his inaugural address. “Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”