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...President even scripted his own exit. One day Johnson took Graham on a walk around his Texas ranch, to a clearing in the trees near where his parents were buried. Johnson wanted to know if he would see them again in heaven. And then another question: Would Billy preach at his funeral? Johnson knew the world listens when a President dies. "Don't use any notes," he said, and no fancy eulogizing either. "I want you to look in those cameras and just tell 'em what Christianity is all about. Tell 'em how they can be sure they...
Lady Bird Johnson was 94 when she died July 11 at the Johnson ranch near Austin, surrounded by family and friends. It was a peaceful end to a life that had had its share of turmoil. Like her husband, she arrived at the White House the hard way, catapulted there by the murder of John F. Kennedy. Just as daunting, her predecessor as First Lady was Jacqueline Kennedy--to put it mildly, a hard act to follow. She couldn't hope to play Jackie, and wisely she didn't try. Her own style was modest, warm and reassuring, which...
Once, when LBJ was still the Senate majority leader, Sidey was having a late drink with him in the Johnson ranch house in Texas. Lady Bird and a staff member came down the stairs responding to LBJ's shout. They were both in pajamas and night robes. Johnson stood up, gathered them in his huge arms and began to fondle a breast of each woman. Sidey later said that Lady Bird's restraint - she did nothing, but sweetly - is what calmed him down. After the White House, when confronted with some of these stories, Lady Bird shunted all wrath aside...
...Yuma County, where gasoline costs around $3.35 per gal. in recent weeks--ethanol E85 fuel was $2.43 per gal.--seldom is heard a discouraging word. Even Brad Rock, who is being hit hard by rising feed prices for the 4,000 head of cattle on his Box Elder Ranch in nearby Wray, admits that the ethanol projects "are good for the community from a jobs perspective...
...some parents feel Redwood has gone too far. Donnell Scott, T.K.'s mom, sits with three other mothers at the kitchen table of her modest ranch-style house five blocks from the school. Their kids have all been "dress-coded"--punished for wearing an American Cancer Society pin or a T shirt with JESUS FREAK written on it--and, after three years fighting the policy, they're fed up. Free speech is one issue ("What a kid wears says, This is what I'm into," Scott explains), but the dispute also seems to be about control...