The federal government had been supposed to appropriate the money for it in its 1937 session, but it had now been discovered that any appropriation wouldn’t be legal. The Browns were facing bankruptcy. Johnson, new to Congress though he was, had worked out a device to make it legal. And the Browns had been grateful. (“Remember that I am for you, right or wrong, and it makes no difference if I think you are right or wrong. If you want it, I am for it, 100%,” George wrote him, in another letter I found in LBJA SN.) And Johnson had done more for the Browns, had seen to it that they received the
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