Lyndon Johnson gave him what he wanted. “They’d have serious fights,” recalls George Brown. “Dare each other to get up and hit ’em.” One of the two men would ask the other “what’d he think about the Mayor, or this legislator or that one. And they’d argue about it. Herman would say”—and as George imitates Herman, he shows a man pounding a table with angry, heavy blows of his fist—“Herman would say, ‘Now, Goddammit, Lyndon, you know that’s not so!’
