A memory of Lyndon that I will always cherish was the way he looked, walking away to catch the plane to Washington after his defeat [in the 1941 Senate campaign] had been announced. I still see him striding off, looking very jaunty, and putting extra verve into his step. His head was high, and he was stepping along real spryly.
Lady Bird Johnson, quoted in Ronnie Dugger, The Politician: From Frontier to the Master of the Senate (1980), 235.

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