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4549.063 - 4573.013 Steven Monticelli

Less than a week prior to the 1960 presidential election between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, a pro-Alger mob assaulted and spat on the Democratic vice presidential nominee and then-Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, as they left the Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas. Alger joined the protesters, who held signs with slogans that said, LBJ sold out to Yankee socialists.