Bob Schieffer, CBS News, 2009 - Lyndon Johnson was the best there ever was at getting Congress off the dime. The civil rights bills he passed are just part of the proof and it got some of us wondering how LBJ would have handled the current health care mess.
I thought of my friend Bill Stuckey. The day after he won a Georgia congressional seat as a very young man, LBJ dispatched a government plane to Georgia, flew Stuckey to Andrews Air Force Base, transferred him to a helicopter which delivered him to the White House lawn. He was taken directly to the Oval Office where the President put his arm around him and said, "Son, I need your help."
From that moment, Stuckey said, "I never voted against him."
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