According to Doris Kearns Goodwin's 1976 biography, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, LBJ as a boy was terrified by a recurring nightmare: He was paralyzed, sitting on a chair in an open field and facing a cattle stampede. This nightmare could be seen as a prophetic metaphor for Johnson's one full term as president: Trying to build his grand domestic program while simultaneously upping the country's military inv…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 10:00PM on October 1, 2019