Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson has clearly put out the word that he is now very much a private citizen. Those few friends who will talk about what he is up to do so with the hasty over-the-shoulder air of a heister peddling a hot watch in front of a police station. Among his friends, says one intimate, Johnson cannot help noting that the stock market has gone to hell, inflation is rampant and Nixon has had more men in Viet Nam than L.B.J. ever did. But to talk to outsiders about L.B.J. and his works is to court disaster. After...
...Johnson might not be able to resist the temptation to play kingmaker in next year's Senate race. Democrat Ralph Yarborough, an old L.B.J. foe, is up for reelection, and two possible opponents, Republican Representative George Bush and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, have both been out to the ranch. So have two old cronies, Federal Judge Homer Thornberry, whom Johnson unsuccessfully nominated for the Supreme Court last year, and Frank Erwin, a longtime intriguer in Texas Democratic politics...
Though Lyndon Baines Johnson himself may be furtive as a desert fox, his works are everywhere in booming Austin. During Johnson's vice-presidency and presidency, the city became a key federal administrative center, adding at least 5,000 jobs to the local payroll. On the University of Texas campus, a $12 million public-affairs school and library is going up, which will house L.BJ.'s 8,000 filing-cabinet drawers of papers...
...Secret Service," but in fact it includes a luxurious suite of offices for L.B.J., a staff and about a dozen Secret Service agents still assigned to the ex-President. One uniformed agent sits in the lobby with an eleven-button telephone; no one gets past him without an appointment. Johnson either flies into Austin by Air Force helicopter, landing on the roof, or drives in his Lincoln Continental. Federal employees are finding parking spots in the basement garage increasingly hard to come by. The whole front row has been commandeered by L.B.J. and the Secret Service, and about half...
...While Johnson is obviously enjoying the perquisites of a White House pensioner, the deeper question of what is really on his mind must go unanswered. The feeling is that he is wrestling with his soul, trying to figure out just how things went sour in his five-year presidency. Where did he lose touch? What went wrong in Viet Nam? Ronnie Dugger, owner of the liberal Texas Observer and an expert Lyndonologist, speculates: "He has given up on current opinion and retreated into history. With his memoirs, he is going to try to make as strong a case as possible...