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Texas wildcatter and investor who partnered with Sid Richardson in the East Texas and Permian Basin oil boom — building a diversified empire of companies — and who represented the Texas oil money political establishment of the mid-20th century.
Texas wildcatter who acquired Dad Joiner's East Texas oil field in a sharp dealing, used it to build the largest personal fortune in the United States — and whose ultra-conservative political media empire made him as polarizing as he was wealthy.
36th American President whose Great Society legislation (Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid) represented the most ambitious domestic policy program since the New Deal — before the Vietnam War consumed his presidency.
Texas wildcatter who struck enormous oil wealth in the Permian Basin — partnering with his friend Clint Murchison — and whose personal fortune (one of the largest in America at his death) was accumulated through extreme geological risk-taking and a lifelong bachelor's reinvestment of all profits.