Rural electrification was also an important issue for FDR and the New Deal, which is why the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) was created to provide remote areas with electricity. However, it wasn’t until Congressman Lyndon Johnson worked the levers of power in Washington, D.C. that the REA agreed to provide a much-needed loan to the Pedernales Electric Cooperative, and the nearly 2,00 miles of power lines were built in the Hill Country. Would-be Senator Johnson promised to continue such efforts. Photo: Douglass, Neal. Johnson City Fair, Photograph, January 1, 1939; digital image, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33257 : accessed January 24, 2012), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Austin, Texas.
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Rural electrification was also an important issue for FDR and the New Deal, which is why the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) was created to provide remote areas with electricity.

However, it wasn’t until Congressman Lyndon Johnson worked the levers of power in Washington, D.C. that the REA agreed to provide a much-needed loan to the Pedernales Electric Cooperative, and the nearly 2,00 miles of power lines were built in the Hill Country. Would-be Senator Johnson promised to continue such efforts.

Photo: Douglass, Neal. Johnson City Fair, Photograph, January 1, 1939; digital image, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33257 : accessed January 24, 2012), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Austin, Texas.

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