Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

by Robert A. Caro

Happiness: on August 27, 1957, Johnson’s forty-ninth birthday and the day the House passed the Senate’s civil rights bill, Johnson hugs Angel Macias, whose Monterrey, Mexico, team had won the Little League Baseball world championship. (photo credit ill.53)

One of the rare occasions when LBJ allowed himself to be photographed while smiling.