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Lyndon B. Johnson: Johnson City
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Even as a youth, Johnson yearned to have a share in the rising wealth around him, which was based chiefly on the booms in oil and beef. Still he despaired of gaining even a foothold. He put in time working for farmers in and around Johnson City. For a period he was a printer's devil at a local newspaper. He ... shined shoes in a barber shop. As he grew up he appeared to be both ambitious and aimless.
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Johnson was unanimously renominated at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. The only disharmony came from a black activist group calling itself the "Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party" (MFDP) demanded all the Mississippi seats, although it had not followed party rules and had few voters. To appease the MFDP, Johnson sent in Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and the party's liberal leaders offered it two seats. The country's most prestigious civil rights leaders, including Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King and Bayard Rustin, all accepted the solution (as did all the states except Mississippi and Alabama), but the MFDP, coming under control of Black Power radicals, rejected any compromise. It therefore lost liberal support and the convention went smoothly for LBJ without a searing battle over civil rights.[11]
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Johnson's The Vantage Point (1971) presents his own perspectives on his White House years. There is not yet an authoritative or comprehensive biography of Johnson. Boothe Mooney, The Lyndon Johnson Story (1956; rev. ed. 1964); and Clarke Newlon, LBJ: The Man from Johnson City (1964; rev. ed. 1966), are journalistic; Sam Houston Johnson, My Brother Lyndon, edited by Enrique Hank Lopez, is a superficial and undocumented account by the President's brother.
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Following the inauguration of Richard M. Nixon in January 1969, Johnson returned to the LBJ Ranch in Texas. He devoted his time to writing his presidential memoirs. He again suffered from his heart ailment and on January 22, 1973, he died at this ranch near Johnson City, Texas.
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The area's top place to dine -- and to bed down -- isn't in Johnson City... but about 16 miles to the west. You'll drive down a rural back road to reach Rose Hill Manor, 2614 Upper Albert Rd., Stonewall, TX 78671 (tel. 877/ROSEHIL or 830/644-2247; www.rose-hill.com), a reconstructed southern manse. Light and airy accommodations -- four in the main house, and six in separate cottages -- are beautifully but comfortably furnished with antiques. All offer porches or patios and great Hill Country views. Rates run from $145 to $165.
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1964 was ... the year that Johnson supported the conservative Democratic delegates from Mississippi and denied the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. To appease the MFDP, the convention offered an unsatisfactory compromise, and the MFDP rejected it. In the same year, Johnson lost the popular vote to Republican challenger Barry Goldwater in the Deep South states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina, a region that had voted for Democrats since Reconstruction.
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