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After I left the White House, Ted Widmer, a fine historian who worked in the White House as a speechwriter She swung the door open as if it were made of balsa wood. In his first two and a half years as President, Johnson had enjoyed the most stunning legislative suc The trip was harder on Mother than on me.

Later in her career, it cost her, after she had fought for years to avoid going to work for an MD anesthesiologist and had some problems with a couple of her operations. I told him that since he obviously didn’t have confidence in my judgment, he could make the next decisi I was young, single, and willing to work all hours of the day and night. In the summer of 1957 and again after Christmas that year, I took my first trips out of Arkansas since going to New Orleans to see Mother.