but that hungar was harnassed and doper understanding of the human condition. and by a sympathy for the underdog. and the down trodden and outcast. and there was a sympathy rooted in his own experience. as a young boy, growing up in the texas hill country, johnson anyhow what being poor felt like. poverty was so common he would latter say, we didn t know it had a name. the family home didn t have electricity or indoor plumbing. everybody worked hard. including the children. president johnson had known the metallic taste of hunger, and