![]() ![]() ![]() Lady Bird Johnson's father provides the $10,000, and gets confirmation that the widow will not run. Judge Wirtz tells Johnson that the former Congressman's widow might run for the seat, and that he'll need $10,000 just to make it a contest. He prods a local judge who is very politically connected, Judge Alvin Wirtz ( Barry Corbin), into giving him a chance to run for Congress. They both drive back to Washington, D.C., and have a bad run-in with Kleberg's standoffish wife, who thinks he is sabotaging her husband for his own political gain.Īfter being fired by the Congressman (through his wife's intervention), Johnson wakes up one morning to find that another Congressman has died, leaving the seat vacant. Johnson then runs off with his boss's Cadillac, driving all night to pick up his fiancee Lady Bird Johnson ( Patti LuPone) at the home of her father in Texas. ![]() In 1934, then clerk for Texas Congressman Richard Kleberg, Lyndon Johnson (Randy Quaid) runs up the steps of the Capitol to meet with future Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn ( Pat Hingle), who is sure he will work beside Johnson in the future. ![]()
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