tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post5227480598294031125..comments2023-09-28T08:13:11.489-07:00Comments on Only In It For The Gold: The Great SocietyMichael Tobishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-88027877206745547242007-08-14T14:13:00.000-07:002007-08-14T14:13:00.000-07:00As noted elsewhere on this blog, Mrs Johnson has s...As noted <A HREF="http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2007/07/bill-moyers-eulogy-for-lady-bird.html" REL="nofollow">elsewhere on this blog</A>, Mrs Johnson has since passed on.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-37713710897979047912007-06-15T21:02:00.000-07:002007-06-15T21:02:00.000-07:00A nice thing about having your own blog is you can...A nice thing about having your own blog is you can take back things you wish you hadn't said, hopefully before anybody noticed (or cached).<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately Blogger seems to leave a trail. Never mind. I'm not telling.<BR/><BR/>However I'll drop a hint. Inel, many thanks for the link. I'll quote some choice words of LBJ's in an update.<BR/><BR/>I don't think we need abstruse appeals to Freud to understand Johnson's tragic failure. Three years after the wild applause Johnson would not have dared set foot in Ann Arbor, Michigan. <BR/><BR/>It was gratuitous and purposeless warfare that Johnson unleashed upon us, like it or now. It didn't do wonders for his reputation. We are still suffering from the tragedy even as we repeat it as farce.<BR/><BR/>LBJ, it appears, is going to be a theme of mine, as if I didn't have enough already. His stamp on this region remains strong even as his memory is forgotten elsewhere.<BR/><BR/>Mrs Johnson's appreciation of nature has much to do with why rural Texas remains a place of amazing beauty (though one can't say as much for its cities and towns). She is still alive and living on the LBJ ranch on the banks of the Pedernales a few miles from here.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-44975895079349793022007-06-15T08:19:00.000-07:002007-06-15T08:19:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-63975580191395900692007-06-15T08:18:00.000-07:002007-06-15T08:18:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-49139797089146238872007-06-15T06:47:00.000-07:002007-06-15T06:47:00.000-07:00"For once the battle is lost, once our natural spl..."For once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted."<BR/><BR/>From: <A HREF="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/lbjthegreatsociety.htm" REL="nofollow">LBJ on The Great Society</A><BR/><BR/>Listen to the mp3, hear the applause at specific points, and wonder 'How did we end up here?' I think <A HREF="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self.shtml" REL="nofollow">The Century of the Self</A> provides some clues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com