Congress
He served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1916 and as chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1920. Johnson was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his resignation on July 17, 1946. In his legislative role, he was most famous for his part in the passage of the Radio Act of 1927, and often quoted as saying:
American thought and American politics will be largely at the mercy of those who operate these stations. a single selfish group is permitted to ... dominate these broadcasting stations throughout the country, then woe be to those who dare to differ with them."Read more about this topic: Luther Alexander Johnson
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“What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I have a Congress on my hands.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)