LBJ was impressed with the intellectual Kennedy advisors, even if he was something of an outsider among them. Later, LBJ told of how he had spoken admiringly of them to his mentor Speaker Sam Rayburn, who said:
“Well, Lyndon, you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say, but I’d feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once.”
—Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest, New York: Random House, 1972, p. 41.
Top: Richard Goodwin, JFK and Dean Rusk. 2nd row, L-R: Larry O’Brien, McGeorge Bundy, and Ted Sorensen. Bottom: Robert McNamara and Pierre Salinger.
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