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Congressman Lyndon Johnson was locked in a fight for his political life in Texas--an epic run for the U.S. Senate against the popular conservative former Governor, Coke Stevenson. Johnson beat Stevenson, in a runoff primary election, by 87 suspect, late-counted votes from south Texas...
...there had been no Hiss case, if Johnson had lost, if Kennedy had told the truth about his disease--history would have been different. The dramas turned on secrets. Nixon probed the hidden communist lives of Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. Kennedy locked the truth of his medical condition in a secret compartment. Johnson went to desperate lengths to prevent the disputed ballot box from being opened...
Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu militant from an organization called Mahasabha (the Great Society). The Marshall Plan began. The state of Israel was born. In the summer of the Berlin airlift, Lyndon Johnson clattered across Texas in history's first campaign-by-helicopter--Lyndon swooping down ex machina to meet and greet the astonished farmers...
FROM THE BEST YEAR OF THEIR LIVES: KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND NIXON IN 1948: LEARNING THE SECRETS OF POWER, BY LANCE MORROW. COPYRIGHT ©2005 BY LANCE MORROW. TO BE PUBLISHED BY BASIC BOOKS...
...forwards on the ice for the score were Taylor, Pelle, and Charlie Johnson. The latter two are linemates, while Taylor was skating in the stead of left wing Dan Murphy...