Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II by Robert A. Caro

Author:Robert A. Caro
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780307422095
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-11-22T14:00:00+00:00

THERE WAS ANOTHER possible explanation as well.

For more than a month before the first primary, unprecedented amounts of money had been devoted to persuading voters that Coke Stevenson had made a “secret deal” to help repeal the Taft-Hartley law.

Coke had hardly bothered to reply. The charge, he told intimates, wasn’t true, but he didn’t have to bother telling the voters that; they knew it without his telling them. The people of Texas, he said, wouldn’t believe that charge no matter how often it was made. They wouldn’t believe it because they knew him. They knew his record. They knew what he stood for. They knew what he would do in the future because they knew what he had done in the past. He had never betrayed them before—and he would never betray them now. And they knew that.

Coke Stevenson’s belief flew, of course, in the face of all conventional political wisdom.

But, it now appeared, he had been right.

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