Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret that President Johnson likes Texans-and has imported a fair number of them to work in Washington. Yet the Texan that Lyndon probably likes best of them all is one he has left behind. He is A. W. (for Albert Wadel) Moursund, 45, who lives in a modest ranch house in the hills of central Texas, works out of a small brick building off Johnson City's courthouse square, has a passion for anonymity, and insists to inquiring newsmen that "I don't give interviews. I just practice law, that's about...
Moursund comes naturally by such talents. His father, A. W. Moursund Jr., had developed ranch holdings in Blanco County, founded Johnson City State Bank (it survived the Depression but closed in the late '30s), and married Mary Frances Stribling. The Striblings, largely through Mary's mother, Lurania, who had a knack for acquiring land and stocking it profitably with cattle, sheep and goats, owned some 100,000 acres near the Pedernales River. Lurania was once asked how much land she thought was "enough." "Just what's mine," she said, "and that which joins mine...
Kroll, who left Columbia University in 1922, came to Harvard from his cattle ranch in Peru in 1962 to get his B.A. through extension courses. While writing a paper for a psychology course on the topic "After Mental Hospitals: What?", Kroll became acquainted with the Wellmet project. His interest in the work being done through the PBH program eventually grew into his present "creative rehabilitation" plan...
Report Card. The President decreed total privacy for Thanksgiving Day, on which Daughters Lynda and Luci flew in from Washington to attend the TexasTexas A. & M. football game in Austin and a traditional turkey, stuffin' and sweet-potato dinner at the ranch. After dark, Johnson hiked through the hills with the girls, discussed Lynda's studies at George Washington University and Luci's recent report card from the National Cathedral School...
Immediately before the Federal Reserve governors acted, Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon called Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch to tell him their decision. Johnson accepted the news with resignation...