![]() ![]() And this is the unspoken lesson of the revelations that Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose are shameless plagiarists. Powerful people expect to get away with behaving badly toward those less powerful than themselves. Working for President Johnson, she must have become accustomed to the petty and unconsidered exploitations that are part of the prerogatives of power. The great man would relate to her for posterity the same bald-faced lie for the 31st time. Johnson would settle into her still-warm bed. Nonetheless each morning at 5:30 Johnson would appear at her chamber door. ![]() She was reluctant to come to Texas at all. ![]() student and former White House fellow would be summoned to the dying president's ranch. On summers and school vacations, the anti-war Harvard Ph.D. She was also Lyndon Johnson's mother confessor. I wonder how Doris Kearns, who ghostwrote much of Lyndon Johnson's 1971 memoirs, The Vantage Point, felt, upon its publication, to be listed in the preface as merely one of the"dozens of people" who"aided in the preparation, research, writing, and editing of this book." For Kearns was not just a ghostwriter. ![]()
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