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Lyndon Johnson and the “Sad Irons” SOLD OUT

Into the lives of the women of the isolated, impoverished Texas Hill Country—women stooped and old before their time from hauling up endless buckets of water from deep wells, doing the wash for their families and ironing it with the heavy chunks of hot metal they called “the sad irons,” all because they had no electricity—came a young congressman who promised them, “I’ll get it for you. You’ll look younger at 40 than your mother did.” And, against long odds, he delivered on that promise.











When: Thu., Oct. 13, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Where: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
212-873-3400
Price: $48
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Into the lives of the women of the isolated, impoverished Texas Hill Country—women stooped and old before their time from hauling up endless buckets of water from deep wells, doing the wash for their families and ironing it with the heavy chunks of hot metal they called “the sad irons,” all because they had no electricity—came a young congressman who promised them, “I’ll get it for you. You’ll look younger at 40 than your mother did.” And, against long odds, he delivered on that promise.

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