 This is the beginning of Lyndon's campaign for the Senate in the spring of 1941. He's arriving in Austin stepping briskly Herbert Henderson on the left. He was our brain trust of the and Ray Roberts on the right and that's Charlie Marsh out of the paper. Here's Herbert Henderson and That's Harold young following him either then or later. He worked for vice president Wallace a campaign billboard That was present all over the state of Texas You remember the famous picture it came from where he was shaking hands with Rosewood in the middle with Jimmy Already and all of us taken out now. Here we are shaking hands with Carol Keach He's about to begin Campaigning by car all over the state with Carol Keats to drive him and Herbert Henderson to go along Help him write speeches. He is leading Temple Texas where he was in the hospital It's gotten white clinic At the very beginning of the campaign a Huddle John Connelly on the left now governor Herbert Henderson a very much slimmer lenders Lendon, this is a rally in Austin We are being met at the airport by a group of friends and this is the bus that went all over the state a Caravan of airplanes off in a cup nager and in those posters Now here's one of our opponents Martin dies this is on the courthouse square of some little east Texas town Nacogdoches, I believe in a moment. We'll see Look in a moment and you'll see how difficult it is to campaign Across about 30 feet of concrete when you're trying to really look into the eyes of your audience He probably was mad at his advanced man Nacogdoches, that's right You see your audience in those days Wasn't too numerous and he's giving them all the old glad to see you partner Congressman Martin dies was in at the height to this theme as head of the unamerican activities committee His name was known throughout Texas Look at the faces of the Texas voters as they fire past Now here's another opponent man the young attorney general called a little red arrow because he had been a Famous football player You will notice the same gesture repeated. He is on the steps of the courthouse at Marshall my hometown home town Once more take a look at their electorate As they listen with varying degrees of interest I'm happy to say he's since become one of our strongest friends and supporters and Here is another opponent W. Lee o Daniel who flashed like a comet across the Texas political scene and this This is on the courthouse square at Marshall also You see there's his His daughter will appear in a moment taking up a collection In a little barrel and these are the voters assembled to hear Their hero like an old Confederate veteran in those days. It was always one a never political crowd and This is his band a famous word about him was used to when he'd come to a question that he didn't know quite how to get into he is a strike up a piece and here comes Strike up a piece Leon and here's a W. Leo Daniel himself Pat the old annual Patty and that is the Confederate Monument there. There was always one in every courthouse square That is his daughter Who lately went to Hollywood and married several times Molly with her name very pretty girl She's taking up the contributions. There's the old veteran saying hello Solitary listener now there is my little niece Diana Taylor. She's going around distributing leaflets for Johnson You'll notice once more The picture that we use so much with Jimmy already blacked out in the middle of blessing He wouldn't mind. He was our greatest helper Now here's a little plane that Lyndon flew all over Texas in He had just been on a trip to the valley as I recall and He is landing at Marshall not much of an airport as you'll observe He's being met by Cameron McElroy on the left and Here he is with his band We called her the Kate Smith of the south This is also on the courthouse square at Marshall. It's just about sundown. That's why the light is so poor That is Harfield Weedon the emcee of the show on the right There's the courthouse square at sunset and here's another one. We had 28 opponents in that race This is one of the lesser ones John C. Williams Too bad there wasn't enough light left Because I'd be sure to pick out a lot of friends in the crowd. I look at the careful expression on the face of voters Now here on the courthouse steps at Denison The speaker's district look at the mustaches Mustaches and overalls and blue shirts and sweaty faces. It was a hot day That is me just writing the whole writing Miller's mother of Bonham Now it's a sound truck that went with us or preceded us rather all over the state sometimes there would be more than 20 Speeches a day. It was a grueling pace The area is shaking hands with all the voters. There's a man telling him just how to do it And here are the state headquarters and the Stephen F. Austin hotel in Austin Rose Rose Jean Lasseter and here is a scenographic pool very capably run and And there's Betty Long. It is Bob Long one of my and there's John Connelly and Jake Pickle now congressman and Nellie Connelly now the first lady of Texas Maybe rather our secretary for ages Doug Singleton of Houston John wary at the end of a day's work Herbert Henderson's younger brother Charles Mrs. Johnson in the bed in the moment. You'll see her voting And a bunch of the girls waiting to receive us in temple. Mrs. Johnson is in the hospital at temple Harold young and here is London being met by a group of young supporters Buck hood Carol Keats who drove us all over Texas editor of a small town newspaper now Son-in-law of San for and there I am that hat in suit went all over Texas a Night rally some of the gestures have persisted through the years Wait was not his problem then Sometimes he's sweat down three or four soups a day Harfield Weedon over on the right the MC All I did in those days was wait and look this is in competition with a carnival never try to do it I believe that this rally was in Dallas. There's Herbert. I think they see how weary he is Alice Hopkins was in the belly Hopkins on the left What's the editor mrs. Baldwin on the right? There's mrs. Johnson just out of the hospital at Scott and white a Little girl presenting roses and at Lendon's two sisters Lucia on the left. Josefa on the right and there's mrs. Arthur Scott Mayor Tom Miller the never was but one mayor like Tom Miller on the left and Now that's a long line of cars Malcolm Bardwell of San Antonio I hear we all are on the stage mrs. Johnson his two sisters and I For a big rally and I believe San Antonio There was not much air conditioning in those days And you'll notice that styles are different too Ellie Jones in the back My old familiar hat and suit Ed Cape of San Marcos great lawyer great friend Dottie mucker Roy with whom Lendon had a date the first night. We met Ellie Jones on the right There's mr. Ed Cape at his summer retreat where we've had so many happy times Jean boring a lasseter Who introduced me to Lendon? My brother TJ Taylor of Jefferson He was our county manager in Marion County and deep East Texas in every election that we were ever in his wife Sarah his business that Jefferson holds their grocery and Some of his clerks and his wife Girl of the second on the left is now mrs. Curtis Barnes who's with the foreign service and stationed all over the world one of the few Negro voters in Marion County He voted in every election and there's Dottie mucker Roy Johnson going in an Old Texas newspaper man Mayor Reese Lockett of Brennam Roy high-pines of Houston the best campaigner that ever was here's Roy He was our manager in Houston Put in just about as many hours and as much vitality as Lendon did there is a very weary candidate At the end of some long hours Back with our entertainers once more Half your weed and always managed somehow but to be immaculate good showmanship too Notice the flag Ain't Jesse I believe Now here we are in Blanco It is election day and Lendon has stopped in Blanco to see some of the hometown folks Here we are walking up to the courthouse in Johnson City. That was a sheriff cast Paris here We are voting in the old County courthouse into Johnson City Notice the big X There's Lendon with his mother and here am I at least I had a different blouse There's the sheriff mr. Cast Paris. He's telling him high Had order been done Lendon and his mother on the front porch of the house where he spent his growing up years His cousin Tom Martin master of ceremonies. There's Uncle Tom Johnson Tom Martin's waving his arms. There's the assembled citizenry of Johnson City welcoming their hometown boy The last day of the campaign Colonel E. O. Thompson and there on the platform with us is dr. C.E. Evans president of Southwest Texas State Teachers College gave Lendon his first job Nobody got more enthusiasm out of my life campaign than he did Tom Martin on his left is the porch off the house and there is mrs. Johnson making a speech and a very wonderful speech It was I can remember it still The boyhood home in Johnson City the porch of the boyhood home in Johnson City Well, and I'm there from about 1913 so until we married Except when he was off at college on a job There's dr. Evans How happy he was There's Aunt Frank mrs. Martin from whom we later bought the ranch house where we now live Mrs. Glidden the postmistress One of the old trail drivers There was always an old trail driver at every one of our speeches in those days There are no more left and in here is the barbershop in Johnson City Once Lendon aged about eight or ten Had a shoe shining job in just such a barbershop I think it was across the street then and most of his customers were returned Servicemen from the first world war He put an ad in the Johnson City record courier Best shine in town, but his daddy didn't like it at all And there's Lendon in front of Casparis cafe greeting some of the old-timers and there's corky cops his little cousin and Look at the headlines. This is the night of the election Johnson leads in state And there's Lendon with Carol Keach watching the returns and Lendon's mother and his sister Rebecca on the left His sister Lucia There's Lendon and there's me. We're watching what's happening Bill Deeson on the right Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Perry Two of the few aristocrats who with us and wealthy people Ray Lee newspaper editor Volome Odom miss Jamie Odom We lived in the hotel for about three days. It was a long count on Saturday night We were so much ahead that then you asked John on the left there's senator works on the right But the newspapers announced us elected the Texas election bureau, which is the Dallas news Gave out our election. We received over 3,000 congratulatory telegrams. We worked toward hiring a staff That's mr. Sam Ford editor the small town newspaper in Floresville there's Mrs. AJ works there We are on the back porch of the senator's home, but to get back to the story They lead narrowed some counties in deep east Texas and Martin bias district began to come in on Monday With substantial differences here. I think we must be getting the news is getting worse now I think it's still getting worse it's narrowing on Monday and Tuesday and on Wednesday O Daniel pulled ahead with about 1,300 in something there's Mary rather one smile That's Gordon Fulcher editor the paper About three days that we lived in the hotel at the mrs. Buck hood Excellent feature story writer We are all putting on a Brave front there The last sequence of this film is lost. It was just about my favorite Lost somewhere in the last 20 years and 20 or more moves It was London in a ruffled seersucker suit, but a very jaunty smile and a in a jaunty walk Going out to catch a plane to return to Washington in July of 1941 About a month later. He cast a vote in the house of representatives to keep the draft at the urgence of Speaker Sam Rayburn The vote won by a margin of one So it was all right that we lost Sometime you are in the right place at the right time and sometimes it Seasons you and strengthens you and Gives you an opportunity to learn But I'll always remember the campaign of 1941 It's just about my favorite campaign