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TIME ran its first cover story on Lyndon Baines Johnson on June 22, 1953, just after he had emerged as the new Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate. Said TIME:
Translated from family talk, that meant that Lyndon Baines Johnson, 49, tall (6 ft. 3 in. and, by the bathroom scales, 185½ Ibs.), dark and almost handsome, wanted to talk about what he was doing as majority leader of the U.S. Senate. And what Lyndon Johnson was doing last...
Less vividly, many another speaker at G.O.P. gatherings across the country last week joined Dick Nixon in a Republican counterattack against the Democratic drive to wring political prosperity out of economic recession (TIME, Feb. 17). All week long the Democrats kept up their offensive. The governors of Colorado, Iowa, Maine...
After the Senate call-buzzers had stopped one noon last week, a visiting minister delivered a timely invocation. Prayed the Rev. Robert W. Olewiler of Washington's Grace Reformed Church: "Most gracious God, we thank Thee for the miracle of our conscious life by which we behold the wonders...
National security, said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson to his Democratic caucus, is the issue that will "dominate the Congresses of free men for lifetimes to come." And the man who clearly intends to dominate that issue and the Congress itself in Election Year 1958 is none other than...