Thursday, July 12, 2007
LBJ
Nope, not he of chanting fame, but she of highway beautification. Lady Bird Johnson has died at a fairly robust 94. The NYTimes printed a photo of her from the early 90's (ours, not hers) and she looked almost identical to herself forty years earlier. Maybe being around all those flowers and trees was good for her. (Note to self: check out flower extracts.) I am quite curious about what The Texas Scribbler implied in his post but anything else to the contrary notwithstanding, as we traverse our often stunningly beautiful country, we should gratefully remember her devotion to adorning the roadways with wildflowers and trees.

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Blogger Dick Stanley — at 12:21 PM, July 13, 2007:
Mostly I was referring to some of the details in Robert A. Caro's "The Path to Power, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1" about President Johnson's political rise. Johnson is known in Texas as the pol who stole an election to the US Senate. Caro shows how he and Lady Bird got rich, by using his position to barge ahead of others in getting radio and television licenses--the basis of their wealth. She acquiesced in these moves, making her a co-conspirator, if you will. Nobody ever charged them with wrongdoing, but he would never have received the licenses if he wasn't in congress at the time. What he later did to her is also in the book, cuckolding her (if that term can be applied to a woman) and generally treating her badly in front of others, all of which she again tacitly approved by not leaving him. Sorry of a Hillary character without the political ambition. But you're not likely to see any of this in the MSM, even after her funeral. OT, wish you'd sign up for TypeKey, JAU. Someone has to take the lede.
 

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