'Bernie' Is Not Seeking Our Party's Nomination For President

[The Magistrate]

82. If You Want The Contemporary Liberal Point Of View On The Man, Ma'am

Hunt up a book from 1967 by Robert Sherrill called 'The Accidental President'.

No attempt to change your view of Mr. Johnson, mind, merely an illustration of what the common view of him in left liberal circles actually was at the time. I read it then and agreed with every word, and strongly suspect that a good many of our members here today, who call him a 'real' liberal Democrat, the kind we haven't got today, would at the time have held views more aligned with Mr. Sherrill than otherwise. I suspect Sanders' contemporary view of the man would have made Mr. Sherrill seem like a booster for old Lyndon Baines. I confess time has brought me to regard the man in far kinder light, but his name still evokes a residual revulsion for me. I do recognize he did good, and certainly in the matter of civil rights displayed real moral courage. That was not so clear at the time however.

If you do look for it, best use the author's name as well as the title. A book on Mr. Truman with a similar title was published more recently, and soaks up many pages of a google search for the title alone. It is a fun read, the man is an artiste with a verbal razor, and not really inaccurate in what he writes, either....