Master of the Senate (246 page)

Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas emerging from the voting booth

Below
: The Texas delegation in Washington to attend Lyndon Johnson’s January, 1949, inauguration ceremony. At Johnson’s right are Justice Tom Clark and the senior Senator from Texas, Tom Connally.

New Senator Lyndon B. Johnson allows new Senator Robert Kerr to take center stage. Senator Clinton Anderson is at right.

Opposite
: Johnson joins the Senate Armed Services Committee, January, 1949. From left, Democrats Lester C. Hunt, Estes Kefauver, Lyndon B. Johnson, Virgil Chapman, Richard B. Russell, Chairman Millard E. Tydings; Republicans Styles Bridges, Chan Gurney, Leverett Saltonstall, Wayne Morse, Raymond E. Baldwin, and William Knowland.

The Johnsons at home, August, 1948

Christmas photographs.
Above
, 1949: from left, Lucia, Rebekah Baines, Josefa, Rodney on Sam Houston’s lap, Becky Alexander, Rebekah Bobbitt, O. P. Bobbitt, and their son Phil.
Below
, 1955, at the Johnson Ranch: Aunt Jessie Hatcher, Lucy, Ramon, Sam Houston, Lyndon, Lynda, unidentified

Johnson with Walter Jenkins en route to the office. Congressman Homer Thornberry is in the middle.

Johnson and John Connally at the Austin airport

Christmas, 1950, photograph of staff for
Collier’s
magazine. From left, Warren Woodward, Mary Rather, Johnson, Dorothy Nichols, Horace Busby, Glynn Stegall.

At the ranch with his family, after his heart attack, August, 1955

The press conference, with Sam Rayburn (left) and Adlai Stevenson, September, 1955

“Lyndon Johnson Day” at his alma mater, Southwest Texas State Teachers College, November, 1955