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...about this time that she met gangling, rawboned Lyndon Johnson, 26, who was down from his Washington job as secretary to Texas Democratic Congressman Richard Kleberg, a member of the famous King Ranch family...
...possesses matchless claims to the President's high regard. Both men are Texans, although White considers himself a Southerner and considers Johnson a Westerner. Their friendship has ripened for 31 years. It began when Johnson was the gangly 23-year-old secretary to Texas' U.S. Representative Richard Kleberg and White was a Washington correspondent for the Associated Press...
...Bond Every Month. Daughter of an Alabama storekeeper turned Texas rancher, Lady Bird was fresh out of the University of Texas when she met Lyndon Johnson in 1934. He was working as secretary to Congressman Richard Kleberg, a part-owner of the famed King Ranch. "I knew I'd met something remarkable," she says, "but I didn't know quite what." Johnson proposed on their first date-and ten weeks later they were married. "My aunt objected," she says. "But my daddy said some of the best deals are made in a hurry." Lyndon's salary...
Great & Good Friends. House Speaker Rayburn was naturally interested in the son of his old colleague, and his influence on Johnson's career is immeasurable. In 1931, when Lyndon Johnson came to Washington as an aide to Texas Representative Richard Kleberg, part owner of the famed King Ranch, he worked himself into a case of galloping pneumonia and collapsed. When he came to in a hospital, he found Sam Rayburn at his bedside. "Now, Lyndon," said Mister Sam, "you just take it easy and don't you worry. You need some money or anything, you just call...
King's herds grew until his Running W brand was known on every cattle trail in the West. More important, perhaps, the land he gobbled up was always legally acquired. He had a talent for picking lawyers. The best of that fine crew was one Robert Justus Kleberg, a young attorney who beat the captain in a lawsuit, was promptly hired by King, and later married the boss' daughter...