Politics

1943-44. LBJ is a staunch supporter of FDR’s wartime policies of rationing and price controls, but this earns him the enmity of some of his constituents in Texas.

Robert Dallek reports that state oil interests were trying to defeat both Sam Rayburn and LBJ, and the purchase of KTBC and an expensive home in Austin at 1901 Dillman Street added to suspicions that Johnson was engaged in improper behavior. Even more damaging, Alvin Wirtz worries in a letter that FDR may lose Texas altogether in the 1944 election.

But come November 1944, thanks in no small part to Alvin Wirtz, FDR, Johnson, and Rayburn are all victorious.

(Dallek, Robert. Lone Star Rising. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 260-263)

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