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They were stealin’ votes in east Texas, Johnson supporter and Austin mayor Tom Miller recalled, we were stealin’ votes in south Texas, only Jesus Christ could say who actually won it. But Jesus wasn’t counting, and, by an eighty-seven-vote margin, Landslide Lyndon attained the Senate seat he had coveted for so long.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

They were stealin’ votes in east Texas, Johnson supporter and Austin mayor Tom Miller recalled, we were stealin’ votes in south Texas, only Jesus Christ could say who actually won it. But Jesus wasn’t counting, and, by an eighty-seven-vote margin, Landslide Lyndon attained the Senate seat he had coveted for so long.

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About Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington. She was also executive producer of "Abraham Lincoln", a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times.