A donkey’s chance
WHAT would Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson make of Paris? This barren town in the state's north-eastern corner has long been the centre of Democratic Texas—a place where an elected Republican was a contradition in terms. It was the stomping ground of Rayburn, the speaker of the House, who shepherded the New Deal laws through Congress; Johnson, Rayburn's protégé, counted on it as a matter of course.
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