Remembering What LBJ Said
My wife +Sylvia Wormley is an economists born and raised in Texas. She has given me an interesting view of politics and this blog posting validates some of what she has told me over the years. I always try to verify facts when I see an image on social media. There were so many references to this LBJ statement that I decided to put them all in one place so that I could find them in the future. I got this image on a Google+ posting Lyndon B. Johnson Wiki quote While Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of time and place, he felt the bitter paradox of both. I was a young man on his staff in 1960 when he gave me a vivid account of that southern schizophrenia he understood and feared. We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about thos...