The dark side of Lyndon Baines Johnson

By Joachim Joesten

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Description: "On the 6th of November, 1936," Haley writes, " Claudia Alta was joined by her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson...in acknowledging receipt of $21,000 in notes from her father, T. J. Taylor, to be paid off at $7,000 annually, beginning November 6, 1937, as settlement in full of her interest in her mother's estate. Thus her "inherited wealth" from her mother's estate, as repeatedly mentioned in the press, consisted of a total of $21,000 in notes."