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It is, admittedly, weird to imagine Lyndon B. Johnson liking Fresca. He was a tall, tough-as-shoe-leather senator from Texas, with a penchant for bullying his colleagues into toeing the party ...
LYNDON JOHNSON 36th President of the United States. KEY DATES: 1908: Born August 27, ... He was a U.S. Senator from 1951-69, and was Minority Leader of the Senate from 1959-69.
Vice President Johnson was riding two cars behind the Kennedys with Lady Bird, Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough and Secret Service Man Rufus Youngblood. "I was startled by the sharp report or ...
In 1960, Senator Johnson ran for the Democratic nomination for President. He lost to fellow Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. However, Kennedy tapped Johnson to be his running mate.
Ray Teng looks at a letter, handed to him by the Dallas Morning News, from then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson addressing his parents immigration case at the Mozart Bakery in Carrollton on Friday, ...