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The speaker says no earlier leader had wielded power like Lyndon Johnson because the founders designed the Senate to resist being led.
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“End quote. No leader before Johnson had wielded this kind of power because the Senate had deliberately been set up by the founders to not be led.”16:43Report a misattribution
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