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Catchword for “LBJ rule”
Catchword: LBJ rule
Gloss: a law that says a politician currently holding an elected office can run simultaneously for re-election to that office and for election to a new office.
Note: LBJ refers to President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
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Part of Speech: n.
Quotation: Using what is known in Texas as the LBJ rule, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Clute, is seeking re-election in his 14th Congressional District as well as running for president.
Article or Document Title:
“Ron Paul presidential/congressional podcast” (URL)
Author:
R.G. Ratcliffe
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Chron.com: Texas Politics
Date of Publication:
Feb. 9, 2008
This catchword has yet to be researched.
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Comments:
This doesn’t actually explain what it means…. I assume that LBJ is a reference to something that president Johnson did, but what exactly IS the LBJ rule?
by Isabelle Hakala 14 Feb 08, 0116 GMT
It’s just a citation, Isabelle. I’ve added more detail for you, however.
by Grant Barrett 14 Feb 08, 0312 GMT

I recently read volumes 2 & 3 of Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ , which covered his time in the Senate and went into great depth about Texas politics .
Without being able to find a specific reference (the 2 books come to about 2k pages in total), but mindful of the way he could arrange matters in Texas for his own advantage , I would hazard a guess that the rule was devised for LBJ’s benefit , one side or the other of WW2.


by Andrew Ruddle 14 Feb 08, 0853 GMT

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