Authors: Robert A. Caro
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.