here are as many styles of leadership as there are leaders. That is evident simply by looking at the 42 men who have reached the hghest ofice in the land.
T It is especially clear h m three presidents whose legacies loom large 30 years and more after they left office: Lyndon Johnson, John E Kennedy, and the greatest president of this century, Franklin Roosevelt.
Johnson's great strength as a leader was h s superb understandrng of the process of government, specifically the legislative process. That was the key to the landmark legslative program of his early years in office-the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare, and aid to education. He had spent his Me in the House and the Senate, and he respected the give-and-take of congressional politics. He took seriously and understood the needs of each representative and senator, and worked hard to build relationships with them. When Johnson was a senator, for instance, he knew that Sundays were a lonely time for the leader of the Senate, Richard Russell, a bachelor. So Johnson visited Russell every Sunday morning to read the New Yark Times and keep him company. Not surprisingly, Russell later helped Johnson become majority leader of the Senate.