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Johnson is particularly susceptible to respiratory ailments because of a recurring bronchial weakness first contracted during high-altitude flying in World War II. He developed a scratchy throat and cough. On Friday night-with Lady Bird and Lynda gone, and Luci Baines out on a date-the President was pretty...
Well, Aunt Jessie made it. And so did just about everybody else worth naming -except a few. Cousin Oriole, in her 70s, was not up to the trip. Dwight Eisenhower was taking the California sun, Harry Truman was feeling under the weather, and Jacqueline Kennedy wanted to avoid the inescapably...
Between other chores, Johnson drove to the Fredericksburg cemetery to visit the graves of his maternal grandparents ("Joseph W. Baines . . . A True Man, A Loyal Citizen, A Dedicated Husband and Father, A Faithful Christian") and sent New Year's greetings to the Soviet Union's rulers, asking the...
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson.
In Detroit, he roused his audience with a declamation about control of nuclear weapons. "Any man," cried Lyndon, "who shares control of such enormous power must remember that 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he...