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...more reprehensible than that of many other student politicians then and now. It is difficult to believe, as Caro does, that Johnson's life was entirely a record of "viciousness and cruelty, . . . all-encompassing personal ambition. . . and aggressiveness." Indeed, Caro seeks to cast a pall even over the noblest incident in Johnson's youth, his student-teaching in the Cotulla barrio, interpreting the future President's success in the job as evidence of his need to create situations in which he was in complete control...
...never attended section, and never so much as skimmed through any of the 14 required textbooks. On the day of the final, he walked into the exam-room, realized that the ensuring three hours were bound to be little better than a wretched farce, and decided to adopt the noblest course of action he could...
Reflecting the duality of the national character and of his own personality, Brezhnev shifted suddenly from menace to sentimentality. He spoke of how his father had learned in World War I that peace was the noblest goal. Brezhnev agreed. He wanted to dedicate his tenure to making war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union unthinkable. Brezhnev reminisced about the human impact of World War II. He spoke gently, with none of the braggadocio so evident a few moments earlier...
...front of the Archives building, which is about halfway between the White House and the Capitol. But in a city where the care and feeding of monuments is a serious industry, many felt that F.D.R. deserved a more lofty and visible memorial. And so, in 1955, in the noblest Washington tradition, Congress established a commission to do something. The main developments since...
...bein' clean and dirty at the same time-they ran a story on Edna's Ranch by a fat, bearded journalist called Larry L. King. Larry's a good ole Texas boy, and he was none too happy seein' one of the state's noblest traditions tore down, like they'd turned the Alamo into a soccer stadium. So he visited La Grange and wrote it all up. Called it "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...