As elevator operator in San Bernardino, LBJ had nowhere to go but up
Lyndon Johnson spent much of 1925 in city, left dispirited but returned in triumph in 1964 as president, columnist David Allen writes.
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Lyndon Johnson spent much of 1925 in city, left dispirited but returned in triumph in 1964 as president, columnist David Allen writes.
Lyndon Johnson spent much of 1925 in city, left dispirited but returned in triumph in 1964 as president, columnist David Allen writes.
Lyndon Johnson spent much of 1925 in city, left dispirited but returned in triumph in 1964 as president, columnist David Allen writes.
>> guest: well, i spent a lot of years on this. and a lot of those years, a lot of months in those years, i spent in the lyndon johnson library. you call up these boxes. it's actually an estimated number, cause they have the exact number of boxes and i called for, whatever is in there, 787 or something. c-span: that's right. >> guest: and they said that in a full box, you have 800 pages, so you just sit there. you know, when i was a newspaper reporter, just starting out, i was 20, and i had this editor who told me, "turn every page, never assume anything." and, with his early life at...
>> guest: and they said that in a full box, you have 800 pages, so you just sit there. you know, when i was a newspaper reporter, just starting out, i was 20, and i had this editor who told me, "turn every page, never assume anything." and, with his early life at least, it was physically possible to look at every piece of paper. c-span: how much new information is it? i know it's a tough question to answer, but is there a lot of new information in these books? this is your second book? >> guest: well, i think it's pretty largely new information because lyndon johnson, you know, when ...