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Authors: Robert A. Caro

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Alice Glass (above, at Longlea)

Franklin D and Lyndon B during an FDR trip to Texas

Above:
Abe Fortas and James H. Rowe, two of Johnson’s young New Dealer group

The victors: the men who came to power in Texas as a result of the Garner-Roosevelt fight—Edward Clark, E. H. Perry, Herman Brown, Lyndon Johnson, and Austin Mayor Tom Miller

Vice President John (“Cactus Jack”) Garner, with Texas Senators Tom Connally and Morris Sheppard

George Brown, Johnson, Tommy (“the Cork”) Corcoran at an airport in Texas, November, 1940

Johnson’s habitual greeting to Rayburn: a picture taken in later years

The Congressman of the Tenth District and his staff in his Johnson City office: John Connally, Walter Jenkins, Dorothy Nichols, Herbert Henderson

Johnson at the Santa Rita Housing Project, for which he fought, in Austin

The Mansfield (originally Marshall Ford) Dam. Johnson’s first task as Congressman was obtaining authorization for its completion.
Opposite, above:
Johnson, at the dedication ceremonies, kneeling beside Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, Chairman of the House Rivers and Harbors Committee, with Alvin Wirtz at left.

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