reason she was informed, in my mind, was that in a number of crucial point in lyndon johnson's career, this woman, alicess, who started out as small-town girl from texas, gave him advice that in at least one case saved his career, because -- he was financed in his early career by a huge texas contracting irm. the firm was prepared to keep financing johnson and he was doing favors for them. but then there came a conflict, a real conflict. erman brown owned a lot of low rent houses from which you got a rental input. lyndon johnson wanted to build a housing project there, and to do that, he had to condemn most f these buildings. herman brown was enraged. at the same time, lyndon johnson was getting herman brown contracts for a dam, and he wouldn't give in on wanting the housing projects there. herman brown's chief lobbyist said, herman was about to turn on the lyndon, and when herman turns on someone, he never turned back. alice glass invites them both down to her huge a state in virginia and says, why don't you compromise? hermann, you take the dam, lyndon, you have the land. there were certain point in h