LBJ and the Billionaire Who Built His Empire: The Brown & Root Connection

Описание: LBJ and the Billionaire Who Built His Empire: The Brown & Root Connection

What if one construction company did more to shape Lyndon Johnson’s rise than any voter ever could? And what if the story of Brown & Root isn’t just about dams, highways, and Vietnam bases—but about how modern American politics learned to run on big money, federal contracts, and quiet favors?

In this video, we dig into the relationship between LBJ and the Texas firm Brown & Root—from the New Deal dams that saved the company in the 1930s, to the federal contracts that helped build Johnson’s power, to the Vietnam War projects that turned the Brown & Root machine into a global force. We’ll follow Herman and George Brown into the backrooms where bond deals were cut, trace how “pork barrel” projects in the Hill Country turned into political capital, and see how those same networks later reappeared in the massive RMK-BRJ construction consortium in Vietnam.

Using campaign finance records, congressional investigations, business archives, and LBJ’s own papers, we’ll unpack how the Brown & Root connection actually worked in practice: how money flowed, who got what, and where the line blurred between public policy and private profit. No wild theories—just the documented story of how a future president and a powerful contractor grew up together inside the New Deal state, and what that meant once Johnson was sitting in the Oval Office signing off on budgets and wars.

If you’re interested in the real mechanics of power—how deals, donors, and federal projects built the modern presidency—hit like, subscribe, and dive in with us. This is the side of LBJ’s story that rarely makes it into the textbooks.

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