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Close to the Top. Johnson has always been a Texan of Texas loyalties. And his closest political associate in Texas was certainly Governor John Connally, 46 (see following story...
...Another Texan whom Johnson vastly admires is Robert Anderson, 53, who was one of the first men he saw after taking over (see U.S. BUSINESS). Still another high-caliber Johnson favorite is Army Secretary Cyrus Vance, 46, a West Virginian who worked between 1957 and 1960 as special counsel for up-and-coming Lyndon Johnson's Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. Vance is the odds-on choice to succeed Manhattan Lawyer Roswell Gilpatric as Deputy Secretary of Defense. Likely to follow Vance as Army Secretary is Assistant Navy Secretary Kenneth BeLieu, 49, a former staff director for that same subcommittee...
...Fellow Texan and onetime Accountant Walter W. Jenkins, 45, has been closer to Johnson longer than anyone else on his personal staff. Jenkins joined Johnson in 1939, only two years after he was elected to Congress, and quickly became his top administrative aide. He performed as political watchdog and personnel manager, answered Johnson's mail and mined assiduously for information to keep Johnson briefed. A Johnson friend remarked in the campaign days of 1960, "He is the one man who can hold L.B.J. together. The Senator talks with him an hour a day no matter where...
...also became the particular protege of family friend and fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, who got President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to appoint Johnson director of the National Youth Administration for Texas. Lyndon used his position as a springboard to a successful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. He was then 29, and except for seven months in the Navy, he has held national elective office ever since...
...their jobs done." During 1962, profits more than doubled to $16 million on sales of $270 million, are expected to be higher this year. Now Grace is driving Fruehauf in new directions: recently it has begun to lease trailers, build freight cars and materials handling systems. A wiry Texan who has a disconcerting habit of juggling a tennis ball while he talks, Grace started as a male secretary in a small Fort Worth trailer company, made himself a millionaire in oil, cattle, real estate...