In Robert Caro’s interview, Herman Talmadge recalled that freshman Senator Lyndon Johnson viewed the relationship between white and Black people as “master and servant.”

“While writing Master of the Senate, volume three of his Johnson biographies, Caro interviewed former Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge. He asked Talmadge what impression he got from freshman Senator Lyndon Johnson about the proper relationship between white people and Black people.”

“And now quoting Caro's recounting of this exchange, quote, "Master and servant. So I," Caro, "asked, 'Well, didn't Johnson have any sympathy for Blacks?”