by Steve Byas, The New American:

Audio recordings from a 1977 interview detailing how the late President Lyndon Johnson stole the 1948 Senate contest in Texas were posted this week on the archival website of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

The story is told that a few days after Johnson’s “victory” in the Democratic primary in the 1948 Texas Senate race (at that time the Democratic primary in the Lone Star State was considered “tantamount” to election), a man noticed a 15-year-old boy sitting on a street corner in Alice, Texas, crying uncontrollably. “What’s wrong?” the man asked, leaning down to the distraught teen.