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Robert Caro believed Lyndon Johnson's first secretary was the only person who could explain what Johnson did during his long campaign drives across Texas.

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“Like you say Lyndon Johnson's first secretary, the one who rode in the car with him on the campaigns.”
“I said, "There's no other human being on Earth who knows what Lyndon Johnson is doing all these hours driving back and forth across Texas.”
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