[Franklin Roosevelt] was just like a daddy to me always; he always talked to me just that way. I don’t know that I’d ever have come to Congress if it hadn’t been for him. But I do know I got my first great desire for public office because of him.

Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  FDR had been Johnson’s patron and role model, and Johnson first won election to Congress by emphasizing his support for Roosevelt and the New Deal.

New York Times, Apr 13, 1945, qtd in Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (New York: Free Press, 2006), p179.

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