Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) was the Senate majority leader from 1955 to 1961 and the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He is best known for his mastery of Senate leadership, engineering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and advancing his Great Society domestic agenda. His presidency was significantly marred by the escalation of the Vietnam War.
“Lyndon Johnson was the most powerful Senate majority leader, perhaps the most powerful legislator period, in the history of this country.”
Source→“Johnson had a direct line to Speaker Sam Rayburn... if the senator needed money for his next campaign... Johnson was the one who could put in a good word with the oilmen from his native Texas.”
Source→“That very same week, the highly coveted open seat on the Foreign Relations Committee, which Kefauver was expecting to get, was instead handed over to a far more junior senator named John F. Kennedy.”
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