[AGL] one reason I admired Lady Bird

[Gerry]

The Robert Caro books give a detailed account of Walter's fall from grace.
He was LBJ's slave, killing himself to serve the master. LBJ rode him hard
from the time they were in college and then spit him out with no apparent
remorse. Also good accounts of Lady Bird and her progression from being too
shy to attend her high school graduation and receive the valedictorian
award, to a player on the world stage. At some point she stopped cooperating
with Caro on the biographies, he broke her trust and never got another word
from her. I guess it's time to dust off those old volumes and peruse them
for a spell. Man, those girls (Lynda and Lucy) really turned out the kids,
huh? You would need a Greyhound to haul the extended family around.
G



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fontaine Maverick" <fmaverick at austin.rr.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] one reason I admired Lady Bird



> When I met him, I didn't know who he was right away. I thought he looked

sad

> and as if he drank heavily. But you are probably right that knowing the

> story subsequently affected my take on his condition.

> I don't think I was projecting though-that would mean that I was a broken

> woman and projected my feelings on Mr. Jenkins.

> F

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>

> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:24 PM

> Subject: Re: [AGL] one reason I admired Lady Bird

>

>

> > Fontaine wrote:

> >

> > When I met him [Jenkins] some fifteen years later, he was still as they

> > say

> > "a broken man"

> >

> > Knowing the story when you saw him at the restaurant, you saw a broken

> > man.

> > This was

> > perhaps a projection on your part. Could anyone tell he was broken if

she

> > didn't know

> > the story? Did he walk differently or was there a haunted or furtive

look

> > in

> > his eyes? A

> > quaver in the voice?

> >

> > Just curious.

> >

> >

>

>