I’m not sure if you’re disagreeing with my point (that Johnson’s rise had fewer moving parts than I expected) or just sharing an additional interesting fact.
TBC I agree with you that becoming president was more complicated than win the dam, win the day. But that more complicated story is still much less complicated than I expected it to be.
what % of credit would you assign to Brown and Root, Sam Rayburn, and Richard Russell?
What I mean to highlight is that Brown and Root were fungible, any of the other rich Texans of the era could have been utilised instead.
Both Rayburn and Russell were absolutely crucial.
I’m not sure if you’re disagreeing with my point (that Johnson’s rise had fewer moving parts than I expected) or just sharing an additional interesting fact.
Disagreeing because it really wasn’t that simple. He had to masterfully play multiple key people, it wasn’t just “win the dam, win the day”.
TBC I agree with you that becoming president was more complicated than win the dam, win the day. But that more complicated story is still much less complicated than I expected it to be.