Word: deason
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garage had more coats of paint on it than any house in San Marcos," says retired Government Professor Howard Mell Greene, the teacher Lyndon once introduced to President Kennedy as "the man that started the fires under me." Lyndon also peddled Real Silk socks and, recalls fellow student Bill Deason, "Dr. Evans wound up with more socks than...
...freshman classes in government. He formed a secret campus political group, the "White Stars," to seize control of campus government from the athlete-dominated "Black Stars," who were plotting to shift student funds away from dramatics and speech, devote them entirely to sports. He put up his friend, Wilgard Deason, for student president. "On the night before the election, we caucused and decided we were 20 votes short," says Deason. "The rest of us went to bed, but Lyndon went to work; when the ordinary man gives up, Johnson's just beginning." Deason won by eight votes...