The New Deal and the Junior Congressman Who Opposed the New Deal

When he was in college, Johnson took over a year to be a teacher. He went down to Kattula, which was a little Mexican-American town near the Texas border. None of the American teachers who had taught there ever cared about teaching the Mexican kids. They almost felt the Mexicans didn't deserve to learn that they were too shiftless and lazy In their opinion. The loiterers across the street would be sitting in the vacant lot, they're laughing at him. And this big, tall, gangling college kid with the big ears,. you know, would sit there hour after hour teaching the janitor English.