LBJ: The Early Years and to help him become even more successful. It is now 1948, and Johnson now is vying for a Senate seat soon to be vacated by a retiring Senator. His promises kept to the people of the hill country, he still must defeat Governor Coke Stevenson, who battles him for a Texas Democratic caucus vote amid rumors of corruption in the form of vote fixing. A 28-28 deadlock is broken when Johnson's staffers pull onto the floor a drunk member (despite goons under the control of Stevenson trying to prevent it), whose vote gains LBJ the Democratic Senate nomination. LBJ
One Word is Too Often Profaned One Word is Too Often Profaned <poem>ONE word is too often profaned One feeling too falsely disdain'd One hope is too like despair And pity from thee more dear I can give not what men call love; The worship the heart lifts above The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion to something afar </poem> "One Word Is Too Often Profaned" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1822 and published in 1824 (see 1822 in poetry). The poem was intended for Jane Williams. It expresses Shelley's deep and genuine devotion for her. Shelley met Jane