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LBJ Collection
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This poetry suite contains the following poems:
- “Mr. George and Indio”
- “The Chronicles of Yarnia: How My Grandmother Made It to the White House”
Description
Mr. George and Indio | by J. David Abbott
In the poem “Mr. George and Indio,” the mystery of the 1948 election is solved in a scene of a revealing conversation with the man whom campaign participants considered to be the party most responsible for swinging the election to a Johnson victory. Luis ‘Indio’ Salas recounts how political boss George Parr delivered the disputed Box 13 votes that gave Lyndon Johnson his razor-thin 1948 Senate victory. Decades later, the former enforcer confesses his perjury and offers history the truth that loyalty once forced him to hide.
The Chronicles of Yarnia | by J. J. Jonas
A grandmother’s crochet circle mails handmade comfort packages to celebrities and national figures, including a yellow-rose collection for Lady Bird Johnson. Years later at the LBJ Library, her skeptical granddaughter spots one of the crocheted coasters in Oval Office footage and discovers that Grammie’s gift truly reached the White House.
