How ‘Landslide Lyndon’ stole the Senate race in 1948 In 1941, Lyndon Baines Johnson ran for U S Senate Franklin D Roosevelt made a speech on the eve of the election criticizing LBJ’s opponent, Wilbert Lee O’Daniel, nevertheless, LBJ lost by
August 28, 1948 Landslide Lyndon – Historical Easter Eggs . . . LBJ had “won” his primary by 87 votes, August 28 forever marking the day on which he would be known as “landslide Lyndon” Johnson easily defeated Republican Jack Porter for the Senate seat, later becoming Vice President and then President after the assassination of John F Kennedy, a man whom many believe stole his own election from
1948 United States Senate election in Texas - Wikipedia Johnson returned to Washington as a senator and was permanently dubbed "Landslide Lyndon " Dismissive of his critics, Johnson happily adopted the nickname, [120] [121] though he came to dislike it in later years [122] Texas Republicans experienced increased voter support in the years that followed [123]
How Landslide Johnson stole a win in Texas Some people think that Johnson’s title, Landslide Lyndon, stemmed from his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater in the 1964 Presidential Race, but it was actually from the 1948 Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson: A Featured Biography - U. S. Senate When Texas congressman Lyndon Johnson won election to the Senate in 1948, he took the hotly contested race by a margin of just 87 votes, earning the nickname “Landslide Lyndon ” Once in the Senate, he quickly allied himself with Senator Richard B Russell, the Georgia Democrat who chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee and the powerful
HOW LANDSLIDE LYNDON EARNED HIS NAME - The Washington Post Had they been told that in 1948 Johnson was running against a right-wing isolationist who'd permitted Red-baiters to run off one of his state's most respected intellectuals,
Why was Lyndon Johnson referred to as Landslide Lyndon? That is why he came to be called Landslide Lyndon, the same way really huge men are sometimes nicknamed "Tiny" This was a tongue-in-cheek nickname given to him after he was voted in as