“I’m reading Robert Caro’s The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Restless as I am — this is Volume IV; can we get to the White House already?! — I wouldn’t want to miss a word of it. We arrive at the White House, only it’s the Kennedy White House, something of a torture chamber for Johnson. Caro’s excavation of the relationships among JFK, RFK and LBJ yields all kinds of skeletons — and treasures.”
— Gibbs is TIME’s deputy managing editor and a co-author of The Presidents Club