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...Austin, Texas...
...hard to find the ranch if you don't know the country," explained the Governor's press secretary in Austin. "You drive south from San Antonio to Floresville. You turn left on the road to Pleasanton. You go exactly seven miles west out this road. There, at exactly 9:45 a.m., a car will be parked at the side of the road. It will either be a Pontiac or a Land Rover. The Governor will...
Lyndon's father, Sam Ealy Johnson Jr., wrote his own chapter of the kind that gives life to Texas legend. Sixteen years ago, when he lay dying in an Austin hospital, he said to Lyndon: "Get my britches. I'm going home." Lyndon protested. Johnson City, he said, could not provide the necessary medical personnel and equipment that the old man required. Replied his father: "I'm going home where they know when you're sick and they care when...
Either by luck or foresight, Connally hooked up with two extremely helpful men after passing his bar exam in 1938. He became Representative Lyndon Johnson's congressional secretary, won a Legion of Merit as a lieutenant aboard the carrier Essex in World War II, managed an Austin radio station, then became attorney for Fort Worth Oil Millionaire Sid Richardson. Tips from Richardson brought Connally a personal fortune of millions through deals in oil properties. The friendship of Johnson, whom Connally served as top strategist in every L.B.J. election campaign since 1937, brought him appointment as Secretary of the Navy...
...m.p.h. TIME'S Hugh Sidey got a chicken dinner and a boat ride up the lower Colorado River. Guide: Lyndon B. Johnson. The Restons' visit became practically a family outing. Learning that Reston's son Richard, a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was in Austin, Johnson ordered Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger to round...