Archive for November 11th, 2007
Me and Lyndon and Norman
November 11, 2007Pardon me, please, while I name-drop a bit. I’ve met few famous people and one of them just died.
The other one was Lyndon Johnson and I made him angry once after a presidential press conference.
I was working part-time for Long News Service in Austin and I suppose its owner, Stuart Long, had something better to do that Saturday morning in 1964 or 1965 when he put me on a press bus and sent me to find out what LBJ was going to do with a retired fire truck donated to the Johnson Ranch by a nearby Texas town, Brady.
The nationally-televised event was held on the lawn in front of the ranch house and dealt with issues of somewhat greater substance. Afterward, I waited and watched as Johnson walked around shaking hands with every potential voter there. When he got to me I screwed up my courage and asked him two questions about the old red fire truck.
With my right hand in a firm grip, he smiled down at me during the entire minute or so of our conversation, but he told me Read the rest of this entry »