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...Johnson??s story is sobering as well. His once-rich father lost everything to the heat and floods that destroyed his cotton crop. As a result, LBJ vowed to amass a fortune big enough to withstand any disaster. This pursuit of money would lead to allegations that Johnson improperly used his congressional position for his personal gain—for instance, he tended to help companies that ran ads on his wife Lady Bird’s radio station. And finally, there is Nixon, who as a child was devastated by his younger brother’s death...
...case is easier to make for Johnson and Nixon. Morrow argues that Johnson??s Senate primary race against Coke Stevenson that year began LBJ’s legacy of deceit. Morrow borrows heavily from Robert Caro’s excellent biography, “Means of Ascent,” to describe the shameless way Johnson misleadingly portrayed his more conservative opponent as a lackey of big labor. Johnson won the primary after a local political boss “corrected a mistake” in the ballots for one precinct...
Morrow spends 57 pages on Nixon’s year, versus 18 on Kennedy’s and only seven on Johnson??s. This clear imbalance contributes to the lack of fulfillment when the book ends. The title titillated with promise, but Morrow’s account—while intriguing—all too often veers off track. To stretch a metaphor as shamelessly as Morrow: U.S. basketball fans were disappointed when the Olympic team came home with the bronze, but—as is the case here—even the let-down...
...Junior Achiever,” a teenage slacker’s mom hires a lifestyle coach to get him out of the house. When she ends up sleeping with the coach, hilarity ensues. The film, like most of Johnson??s work at Harvard, is about his life and friends in South Texas, appealing to the same type of stoner ethos found in his favorite movie, “The Big Lebowski...
...Johnson??s plans further down the road are more distinct: in fifteen years, he hopes to have a few feature films under his belt, with funding to do another one. “I want to be the next Hal Hartley,” he says. “Never made an Oscar, never made a ton of money at the box office. But he’s doing it how he wants to do it and getting by that way, so that’s how I see myself.” Until then, Johnson contents himself...