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.
Functions in the Founders context as the political product of Texas oil wealth — his Senate career funded by Brown & Root and Texas oil interests — demonstrating how entrepreneurial wealth converts into political power.
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