Lyndon Johnson didn’t invent any of the programs that provided this help for a people of a section of America which so badly needed help. He just got as much out of the programs as he could. “He got more projects, and more money for his district, than anybody else,” Corcoran says. By Johnson’s own estimate, he got $70 million. “He was,” says Corcoran, “the best Congressman for a district that ever was.”
