Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance bristled with suspense. First, Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs hustled back to Washington after a conference at the L.B.J. ranch with word that the President might request a tax increase of as much as $15 billion. Lyndon Johnson dismissed the report, sniffing that "guesses will be made from time to time-that is a democratic privilege." Next, Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, flew down to Austin with a report as bright as the Texas sun: 1967, he said, should bring a "more balanced, moderate kind of growth," with fewer slowdowns or inflationary pressures...
...weeks after his throat and abdomen surgery, Lyndon Johnson was an uncommonly active convalescent. When Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz invited him to fly down from the L.B.J. ranch to join in an inspection of the $78 million Amistad (Friendship) Dam, which the U.S. and Mexico are building on the Rio Grande, Johnson accepted in a twinkling. Meeting Díaz Ordaz in the middle of a bridge spanning the river, he exchanged abrazos with him, then helicoptered to the dam site. In a speech on the Mexican side, Johnson declared that the binational project, which will provide...
Earlier in the week, Johnson showed familiar signs of restlessness. Though doctors had advised him not to drive for three weeks, he led the press corps on an hour-long auto chase around tiny Fredericksburg, Texas, after church services. Later, he grew lonesome at the ranch, began commuting 65 miles daily by JetStar to Austin. There he worked for the first time in memory in the ten-room office suite built for him two years ago atop Austin's new federal building-a layout which the G.O.P. branded his Texas Taj Mahal. For all his exertions...
...phone conversations with Administration leaders in Washington. The President stayed in his room late some mornings, but he was not, it was explained, being a slugabed. Propped up on pillows, he labored over intelligence reports, diplomatic cables, and of course the federal budget. The word went out from the ranch that $1.1 billion-25% of the $4.4 billion total allocated-would be chopped from the federal highway program, an economy move that will delay road building in every state in the Union...
...first Santa Gertrudis bull-purchased from the King Ranch in Texas for $31,500-gave him not only a magnificent sire for his herd, but also half the spread's name. The Win in Winrock is for Winthrop, but the Rock is for Rock the bull, not Rockefeller. Then he put in six artificial lakes, rebuilt the original house as a stone-and-glass palazzo, pumped water 850 ft. up the side of Petit Jean for an irrigation system, built roads and an airfield. He owns four planes, including a ten-passenger jet, employs five pilots, and has flown...