defense and perhaps to render their sons and daughters very quickly after world war ii. host: how much continuity was there when it came to soviet power from fdr to president johnson? guest: a lot more than they give them credit for. dwight eisenhower had something called rollback. they said elect him because he will wipe the russians out of eastern europe. to some extent, he was serious to that effect. but the way that eisenhower handled this, he had it aide called andrew goodpaster. he was sort of a pullback supporter. they had this operation called operation solarium. the way he did it was he appointed three teams fred one was rollback, push eastern europe back even if it means war, and the other was isolationists, do nothing and let them take over the world, and of the center would be something akin to what we would call containment. although they didn t call it that. he put andrew goodpaster in charge of the containment team. because he knew that he d make undreamt w
captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: robert caro is here. he is a two-time pulitzer prize-winning historian and biographer. he has spent more than 30 of his life chronicling the life of lyndon baines johnson. the year, the path to power. the years of lyndon johnson, master of the senate. and now this book. it is called the years of lyndon johnson: the pass annual of power. it is the passage of power from president kennedy to president johnson. it is a remarkable book. columnist george will said when the multivolume series is complete, it will rank as america s most ambitiously conceived, assiduously researched and compulsively readable political biography. i am pleased to have robert caro back at this table. welcome. glad to be back. rose: this engrossing volume span 1958 to 1964 is the fourth and presumably pen ultmat powell that began with passage of power. it showcases mr. caro s gift as a wri
the one thing i believe is that power reveals. you know, lord acon says all power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely. i don t happen to think that s always true. what i think is always true is power reveals. johnson gets power and for the first time we see what he means to do with it. rose: robert caro for the hour, next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: robert caro is here. he is a two-time pulitzer prize-winning historian and biographer. he has spent more than 30 of his life chronicling the life of lyndon baines johnson. the year, the path to power. the years of lyndon johnson, master of the senate. and now this book. it is called the years of lyndon johnson: the pass annual of power. it is the passage of power from president kennedy to president johnson. it is a remarkable book. columnist george will said when the multivolume series is complete, it will rank as america s most ambitiou
the one thing i believe is that power reveals. you know, lord acon says all power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely. i don t happen to think that s always true. what i think is always true is power reveals. johnson gets power and for the first time we see what he means to do with it. rose: robert caro for the hour, next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: robert caro is here. he is a two-time pulitzer prize-winning historian and biographer. he has spent more than 30 of his life chronicling the life of lyndon baines johnson. the year, the path to power. the years of lyndon johnson, master of the senate. and now this book. it is called the years of lyndon johnson: the pass annual of power. it is the passage of power from president kennedy to president johnson. it is a remarkable book. columnist george will said when the multivolume series is complete, it will rank as america s most ambitiou
it. he becomes the majority leader. the one thing i believe is that power reveals. you know, lord acon says all power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely. ion t happen to think that s always true. what i think is ways tr is power reveals. johnson gets power and for the first time we see what he means to do with it. rose: robert caro for the hour, next.c captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: robert caro is here. he is a two-time pulitzer prize-winning historian and biographer. he has spent more than 30 of his life chronicling the life of lyndon baines johnson. the year, the path to power. the years of lyndon johnson, master of the senate. and now this book. it is called the years of lyndon johnson: the pass annual of power. it is the passage of power from president kennedy to president johnson. it is a remarkable book. columnist george will said when the multivolume series is complete, it will