As Texas Democrats poured into Dallas for their state convention last week, the party's voice of moderation, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, was riding high. Behind him was a decisive victory over Governor Allan Shivers in the fight for control of the party machinery; ahead, the horizons were Texas-broad. A trum-pet-and-trombone-led parade fanfared his election as both a favorite-son presidential candidate and chairman of the state's 56-man delegation to the national convention.
For a while it looked as if Johnson's ability to carry water on both shoulders might win him every honor...
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