Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da Willis ya koma Texas a 1948, sabon aure, ya yi aiki don yakin neman zaben Lyndon B. Johnson. Bayan da ya yi aiki a matsayin wakili a Majalisar Dattijai ta Jam'iyyar Democrat a 1956
, 1960, da 1968, ya zama aboki kuma mai ba da shawara ga Shugaba Johnson.