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Caros most significant story about Johnson was about the Senate race of 1948 in which Johnson was accused of committing fraud, exposes Caros take on Johnsons utter ruthlessnessand seemingly bottomless capacity for deceit, deception and betrayal, (Caro, Introduction). His choice to use this particular story is significant because it is an event that Dallek does not spend much time with. Caros depiction of the events surrounding the 1948 Senate run involved the conversion of a 700 vote count into a 900 by the addition of a loop in the 7, thus cheating his way into office. Dalleks take on the fraud issue goes a bit further than Caros and quite melodramatically. Dallek spends a significant amount of space in the book to this issue

Dalleks description of the vote-count fraud committed by Johnson is superior to that of Caro. He explains all of the various elements of the deception, down to the smallest points of warnings by elections officials that to rescind their first count would be seen as an admission of guilt and expose him to an indictment for perjury or false swearing,. Caros work makes it beyond question that Johnsons 1948 win was an illegally stolen

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