Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mark Hofheinz, 70, rambunctious, larger-than-life Texas entrepreneur and showman whose Houston Astrodome was the world's first indoor stadium; of a heart attack; in Houston. After passing the bar exam at 19, becoming the nation's youngest elected county judge, and serving as manager of Lyndon Johnson's unsuccessful 1941 Senate campaign, Hofheinz vowed to make a million dollars in less than a decade, which he did. Elected mayor of Houston at 40, he survived impeachment and eventually promoted the Astrodome, lavishly appointing the stadium with such splashy innovations as an electronic scoreboard, luxury "suites...
...marriage to Lady Bird Taylor, but about Alice he was as silent, Caro writes, "as a young man in love." And uncharacteristically rash: Marsh, the owner of several Texas newspapers and one of Johnson's most influential patrons, was someone he could hardly afford to cross. Luckily for Lyndon, Marsh never caught on. The author quotes a witness to the affair: "That was the only time-the only time-in Lyndon Johnson's whole life that he was pulled off the course that he had set for himself...
...allowed an opponent to falsify more returns than he did) and headed off to war, a 33-year-old Navy officer. Thus, nearly 800 pages after this saga begins, L.B.J. has barely set foot on the Path to Power. Does the world really need another endless tome about Lyndon Johnson...
...themselves. And the secret love affairs, cash-stuffed envelopes and other reportorial hand grenades seem to come remarkably often for so long a book on so familiar a subject. But then, as acquaintances, biographers and most Americans at least a few years beyond voting age have long known, Lyndon Johnson seldom failed to surprise. Volume II cannot either. The envelopes, please. -By Donald Morrison...
...said, promised to accept one of these. Whether or not this was true, the handful of men and women who were aware . . . agree that this relationship was different from other extramarital affairs in which he was a participant. His conduct at Longlea was striking. One [mutual friend], seeing Lyndon and Alice together for the first time, says he could hardly believe his eyes. As Alice sat reading [Edna St. Vincent] Millay in her quiet, throaty voice, he recalls, Johnson sat silent, not saying a word, just drinking in the beautiful woman with the book in her hands...