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“How High Can an Income Tax Fix Go?” The LBJ tax scandal that you’ve probably never heard of.
The Mudd Manuscript Library recently acquired an extremely interesting collection from a little-noted event in political history. Werner’s 1944 memo explaining the discovery of fraudulent bonuses to Brown & Root executives. The actual recipient of these funds was determined to be the Lyndon B. Johnson 1941 U.S. Senate campaign. Between 1942 and 1944, Elmer Charles…