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...Congress (a hypodermic syringe for medicare, a schoolhouse for aid to education). His presents were strictly for the Man Who Has Everything. Lady Bird's offerings: a leather-bound chronicle of the L.B.J. Ranch since 1845; a cowhide portfolio containing a newspaper account of a 1918 visit to Fredericksburg, Va., by Lyndon's father; and a four-foot-high street-refuse bin decorated with photographs of Lady Bird's various trips around the country to encourage roadside-beautification projects. Lynda Bird gave him a photograph album from her travels in the Western U.S. this summer, and Luci...
...Perspectives. This final installment opens on the battle of Fredericksburg and closes with Lincoln's assassination. "It was the heaviest bullet, all things considered," writes Catton, "ever fired in America." Wherever possible Catton finds new perspectives along that blood-soaked two-year trail. Of Chickamauga, he writes: "The Union government sent 37,000 soldiers to Tennessee: the Confederacy sent Jefferson Davis. The contrast does not reflect different ideas about what was needed: it simply measures the extent of the resources at hand. Each government did the most it could...
Johnson's boyhood interest in schooling came by family tradition: his father had taught in two one-room country schools in Texas, and his mother, who was the granddaughter of a Baylor University president, had taught classes in "expression" in Fredericksburg, Texas, and later in her home. In 1912, when Lyndon was four, she taught him to read simple primers ("I see the cow") in their Texas hill-country home. Then she sent him trudging a mile down a ranch road, lunch pail in hand, to Kate Deadrich's one-room tin-covered Junction school, where rules were...
...less of farm counties, and in 1962 along came Weltner to run against Davis. He had imposing Southern credentials. One of his great-grandfathers was Georgia's first chief justice, Joseph Henry Lumpkin. Another great-grandfather was Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, a Confederate general who was killed at Fredericksburg. His father is a former chancellor of Georgia's university system and a onetime president of Oglethorpe University. Weltner himself attended Oglethorpe and got a law degree at Columbia University before settling down to an Atlanta practice...
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 Russians to join the U.S. in efforts "to make this a happier and safer world for all peoples...