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...could not be said, however, that Washington lacks exuberance. It has been supplied by more than 5000 Texans, some of whom have swaggered into the capital with cowboy boots, ten-gallon hats, and at least one tiara that says "Howdy, I'm from Texas" in lights when its wearer pushes a button. More than 3000 visitors jammed a coffee hour given by Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex.) in a tiny Capitol Hill room yesterday morning...
Still speaking of Lyndon, Goldwater concluded: "Of course, when he gets back here to Texas and has those high-heeled boots on, and that ten-gallon hat, and he calls you 'Pardner,' he sounds like a conservative banker. But I can tell you in Washington when he wears just plain old shoes and says, 'How do you do,' he speaks an entirely different language, that of the radical liberals. And whether he likes it or not, or even knows it, he is backing socialism...
...paperback, the President might take another look at it. It is a lampoon on Texas politics, but the book's L.B.J. character, Governor Arthur Fenstemaker, is warmly portrayed. Fenstemaker is a little cruder than the real-life Lyndon, maybe kindlier; and he stands head, shoulders and ten-gallon hat above all the other heroes of the current political fiction...
...week while committing the President to print, and even now draws guardedly: "You change Johnson too much and he looks like Eleanor Roosevelt." Don Wright of the Miami News finds Johnson a slippery subject. "If you aren't sure you have him, you put him in a ten-gallon hat." In the same way and for the same reason, many cartoonists suit up the President in cowboy uniform, right down to the Texas boots...
Perfect Host. Nearly everyone got a ten-gallon Texas hat from the President. When the Times's Wicker dropped his in some viscous Texas clay, the President wiped it off for him, using the presidential handkerchief. Always he was the perfect host. The Scotch never ran out. The President regaled his guests with stories from the Roosevelt days, and-off the record-confided all sorts of things: what he thinks about some of his Cabinet, for instance. One night, Johnson even got on the phone to call Phil Potter's editor long distance and report that...