LBJ: The Early Years (1987)

Directors

Peter Werner

Cast

Randy Quaid, Patti LuPone, Morgan Brittany, Pat Hingle, R.G. Armstrong, Barry Corbin, Robin Curtis, Charles Frank, James F. Kelly, Kevin McCarthy, Don Moss, Jack Blessing, Jerry Hardin, Frances Bay, Sandy Ward

The story

In 1934, then clerk for Texas Congressman Richard Kleberg, Lyndon Johnson (Randy Quaid) runs up the steps of the Capitol to meet with future Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (Pat Hingle), who is sure he will work beside Johnson in the future. Johnson then runs off with his boss's Cadillac, driving all night to pick up his fiancée Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor (Patti LuPone) at the home of her father in Texas. They both drive back to Washington, D.C., and have a bad run-in with Kleberg's standoffish wife, who thinks he is sabotaging her husband for his own political gain.

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