“His attitude was, all the minor details must be taken care of, everything must

be taken care of, and of course we must win. But the thing was: if you took
care of all the minor details, you would win. If you stayed up late, if you did
just absolutely everything you could do—well, from it would grow
everything…
The feeling had been reinforced—in Washington and Houston and Cotulla—
by experience. In each of those jobs, he had done “everything”—had lashed
himself into the effort in which “hours made no difference, days made no
difference, nights made no difference,” into the effort in which he worked
weekday and weekend, day and night. And he had “won,” had made the most
of each of those slender chances…
Ed Clark, who had seen so many campaigners, said of Lyndon Johnson’s
1937 campaign for Congress, “I never saw anyone campaign as hard as that.
I never thought it was possible for anyone to work that hard.” If that
campaign had been Johnson’s main chance, this campaign, the 1948
campaign, might be his last chance. Was 1937 the hardest Lyndon Johnson
ever worked? Ed Clark would be asked. “Oh no,” Clark said. “In 1948, he
worked harder.”

– Robert Caro, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I and
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II.