Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texans had to admit that the U.S. Senate race between pipe-smoking ex-Governor Coke Stevenson and fast-talking Congressman Lyndon Johnson was close-even for Texas. Ten days after the election it was still impossible to tell...
...contestants had been neck & neck during most of their runoff campaign. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), black-haired Lyndon Johnson was the more dramatic of the two. At 40, he was a seasoned and ambitious man. He had been a janitor, a schoolteacher, a secretary, a New Deal youth administrator (he liked to say that Franklin Roosevelt had "been like a daddy" to him), and had served 5½ terms in Congress. He had been in close races before. He had run for the Senate against W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel in 1941, had been beaten by only...
Texas, of course, has its fair share of demagogues, rabble rousers and just plain exhibitionists, many of whom are continually running for office. They thrive and prosper on just such free publicity as you have given Windmill Lyndon Johnson [TIME, June...
...hoped that TIME would ignore Lyndon Johnson's attention-seeking antics rather than dignify them by mention in its columns. I am comforted, however, by the realization that those Texans who read your columns are not exactly the type to be much impressed by the characteristics of a wind mill, whose activities depend on how the wind is blowing and which, although constantly in motion and usually screeching, never gets anywhere...
...bottoms and the back country, the Johnson City Windmill (named for Lyndon's home town) wowed the citizenry. Campaign workers raced ahead in cars to meeting places, strewing literature along the way. Johnson hovered over small towns, urging people to follow him. Over Forney he cried: "How's the gang in Adams' drugstore?" In Omaha he took Mayor Jack Vaughn, a young exmarine, up for a ride, gave him a chance to make a political speech...