[AGL] one reason I admired Lady Bird

[Fontaine Maverick]

I haven't read it. Got a copy of "The Politician" by Ronnie Dugger, which I 
tried to read over twenty years ago. Maybe I should dust it off until I can 
get my hands on the Caro book.
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From: "Gerry" <mesmo at gilanet.com>
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Subject: Re: [AGL] one reason I admired Lady Bird



> 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



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