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...states tried to depict themes representative of the Great Society. Texas trundled by proudly with a model of the LBJ Ranch, including a plastic Pedernales River, and a beagle with a tail that wagged. Minnesota's banner heralded the state as the SOURCE OF MAN POWER AND BRAINPOWER, while Hubert's old college band cut loose with The Minnesota Rouser. Education and recreation were the principal themes, Southern states, by and large, had the prettiest girls, and each state had some touch that was indubitably...
...emphasis in his discussion of "LBJ and U.S. Foreign Policy" was on the importance of the Presidential personality. Washington correspondent for Time magazine since 1953, Sidey is the author of John F. Kennedy, President. He was sponsored by the Harvard International Relations Council...
Christmas was good to thieves this year. Comstock Hall provided some lucky second-to-fourth story man with three transistor radios, two cameras, one of them worth $250, a copy of The Kennedy Years, a box of LBJ matches from the election, a roll of stamps, and numerous other goodies...
Rattle, Rattle. To Lyndon, who left the land to seek his fortune elsewhere and came back in style, the hill country now means mostly the 400-acre LBJ Ranch on the banks of the Pedernales...
Just two miles up the road from the LBJ spread, though, is Emil Klein's 167-acre ranch. There, a battered pickup truck sits in the driveway, wash hangs on the line, and an income of a few thousand a year is all that one can expect. In the grim days of the Depression and the Dust Bowl, the face of Texas that Lyndon knew best bore a close resemblance to Emil Klein's pinched place, and so he cleared...