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LBJ and Age: A Young Leader
In 1954, with the Republicans in control of the White House, the Democrats gained control of the Senate, making Lyndon Johnson the youngest Majority Leader ever. He was 46 years old.
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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.
