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The quality of leadership can be defined as one's ability to appeal to and sense the needs, wants, and feelings of one's constituency. A leader must also be innovative enough to have new ideas, but at the same time these ideas must not be so far reaching that the ....

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.... War, leading the public to feel that he was out of touch; this many feel ultimately cost him his presidency. When Lyndon Johnson entered office in 1963, he had an extraordinary position to fill; the young JFK seemed to have done no wrong, and the nation was still in shock from his untimely death. Johnson, like any good leader, used this opportunity to introduce social legislation in “the memory of Kennedy”, namely the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Kennedy had not been able to get passed. This was one instance in which LBJ was able to accurately read the emotions of the people, and was able to use this trait to his advantage. However, many of ....