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- the Taylor's beautiful ante helium
home, bearing its precious cargo. Underneath the pic
ture he wrote:
' n December 22, such and such a year, the store in Karack, the T. J. Taylor Store, Dealer-in-Everything
closed. In every fireplace in the Taylor home
- been covering presi
dents from George the First to
George the Worst.'
Drawing on the barbed hu
mor of H. L. Mencken, Liz
recalled his writing "On some
great and glorious day, the
plain folks of the land will
reach their heart ' desire at
last
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apply to New Dealers: "Through our great good fortune in
our youth, our hearts were touched with fire."*
On Harry S. Truman:
I wrote two long memoranda [for him] ... one on how a
President should handle an opposition Congress, and in
1947, a long
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Welfare Administration at that
university, is often called the "Father
of Social Security,'' because he
helped draft the original legislation as
a young ew Dealer in the 1930s. In
his presentation, Cohen disputed the
contention that the social security
- the longtime
activist for civil rights and ot er causes recount some of
the experiences in her eventful and colorful life. Now 80
Mrs. Durr was a transplanted Alabamian in Washington
dur·ng the 1930's. She and her late husband, Clifford,
were ardent New Dealers
- was the last of the original New Dealers to
occupy the White House and like FDR despite his cautious
tendencies-and like FDR he was cautious-he was will
ing to experiment. Ht: thought there would be time to find
out what worked and what didn't. Helping once
- , there was
the unconditional
love of her
Grandpa Patton. a junk dealer and
ex-convict. He told her she was spe
cial and worthy of God's love.
Then there was the Good Hope
Missionary Baptist Church with its
emphasis on respectability, educa
tion, and responsibility
- good, he
could also be ruthless, Caro told the
audience, as when he destroyed the ca
reer of Leland Olds, "an idealistic Ne,
Dealer. He had worked for Franklin
Roosevelt all his life .... His field of ex
pertise was public power; power from
dams
- hus
bands and thirteen children, for I had
told him often enough."
Mrs. Johnson recalled her
father's country store, and its sign
over the door: "T. J. Taylor, Dealer in
Everything.''
'·Jgrew up listening to the wind
in the pine trees of the East Texas
- we are
pr iding a :upp m r gr m for drug
dealers and liqu r tore'. If we nly
had a ten-perc nt succ rat in trcat
in0 prison r , th co ·t f treating all
f them would b rec up d \\·ithin a
year.
"And the impact on our crime problem
would be enormous
- ,'·
"arm-I wisting,"
"wheeler-dealer: ..
-When
Senator Richard Russell
declined to serve on the Warren
01111111s1011. LBJ retorted, ··y u're
my man on that commission! And
you're gem' do it! I can't arrest ou,
and f'm not going to put th FBI on
you
- gathered, a different
LBJ began to take form in his
mind. This new Johnson was the
last New Dealer, determined to
see Franklin Roosevelt's program
through to its proper fruition.
LBJ wanted to fight the War on
Poverty. Johnson was not inter
ested
