德克萨斯州的无赖

德克萨斯州的无赖
1. The people who worked for him lived in mortal fear of him.
为约翰逊工作的人生活在对他的极度恐惧之中。

2. He humiliated them in front of their peers, then sometimes rewarded them, dressing down one staff member when others wat ched, then later in the day awarding the staff man a Cadillac, winking and explaining to someone else that it helped bind a man to strike with munificence when he was down.
他会当众羞辱员工，然后奖励他们。

例如在众目睽睽之下狠狠训斥一个员工，却在当天晚些时候赏给他一辆凯迪拉克，并且眨着眼睛对别人解释道：他是在用他的慷慨奖励安抚他沮丧的员工。

3. He would call in all the press officers from the different departments and chew them out like a drill sergeant, saying they had been doing a terrible job, he hadn’t been on the front page in weeks ex cept for lighting a goddamn Christmas tree. Lighting goddamn
Christmas tree!
他会把不同部门的新闻官员召集起来，并像教官训斥士兵那样严厉责备他们，斥责他们几周来都没把他放在头版的位置上，除了点亮圣诞树那次，点亮那棵该死的圣诞树！
4. Now he was going down on the Ranch and he wanted them to get him on page one every day.
近来他在着手大牧场工作，他要求每天都上头版新闻。

5. They better dream up something and get it on the first page.
他们最好有新的构思，哪怕是凭空编造，并把它们放上头条。

6. On he went, leaving the men in the room, some of them quite distinguished men in their own professions, feeling that they had been crushed and degraded.
约翰逊训话结束，气冲冲地离开了，新闻官员们一个个灰头土脸，面面相觑。

其中一些人在自己的领域是非常优秀的，顿时感到自尊心背损，身份遭贬。

7. Or Johnson telling Cabinet members that they wouldn’t dare walk out of his Administration, no one was going to walk out on Lyndon Johnson because they knew that if they did, two men were going to follow their ass to the end of the earth, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover and the head of the Internal Revenue Service.
另外，约翰逊警告内阁成员，不要妄想逃脱他的辖制。

事实上，没有人会试图脱离他的管治，因为他们知道一旦那样做，J. 埃得加. 胡拂先生和国内收入署的头头儿将会追踪他们到天涯海角。

1.Johnson would forever quote a maxim of his father’s: if a man couldn’t walk into a room and tell who was for him and who was against him, then he wasn’t much of a politician.
约翰逊无时无刻不在引用其父的语录：“要是一个人不能在一上任就辨认孰敌孰友，那他就不配搞政治。

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2. Of course Lyndon Johnson could do it like no other man, ipso facto he was a great politician.
诚然，约翰逊把这句话发挥到淋漓尽致，所以他是伟
大的政治家。

3. Thus a key to Johnson was the capacity to move men to his objective and away from their own charted course.
因此，约翰逊的过人之处在于，他有能力让别人放弃既定的计划而为他效力。

4. That was the way to achieve things: deal with men at close combat, man to man.
而在近距离格斗中，逐个击破是取胜之道。

5. He believed this deeply, almost too much so.
他对此深信不疑，几乎信得过了头。

6. Since he was not a contemplative man, a man who read books, and since he had little belief in the rhythms and thrusts of history, he was convinced that you could accomplish things by reasoning with leaders, by moving them to your goal, manipulating them a little, and that finally, all men had a price.
他不喜欢读书，不善于思考，而且不相信历史规律和
经验，因此他认为同领导者理论，收揽人心，为其所用，是取得成功的关键。

7. In part this helped bring him into trouble in Vietnam, with his instinct to personalize.
但是这也是他陷入越战泥潭的原因之一。

8．He and Ho ChiMinh, out there alone, in a shoot-out. 当时，他和胡志明针锋相对。

9. He would find Ho’s price, Ho’s weakness, whether it was through bombing the North or through threatening to use troops and then offering Ho a lollipop, massive economic aid andregional development, a Mekong River Delta development project.
他试图对胡志明进行收买或镇压。

炮击越南北部，或是利用军队威胁，然后提供诱人的经济援助，并协助开发湄公河三角洲等地区，以达到安抚利用之目的。

10. This time he would find himself dealing with a man who was a true revolutionary, incorruptible, a man who had no price, or at least no price that Lyndon
Johnson with his Western bombs and Western dollars could meet.
但这次他遇到了一个难缠的对手，一个真正的革命家，不被诱惑所动，不为威武屈服。

至少，约翰逊的武力镇压和糖衣炮弹不能将其制服。