{"id":4724,"date":"2016-03-16T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2016-03-15T21:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T01:55:49","slug":"looking-for-lyndon-1-an-obsession-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/looking-for-lyndon-1-an-obsession-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Lyndon #1: An Obsession Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lbj\"<\/a>Few presidents would ever know more triumph, few suffer such a swift and tragic fall. -LBJ. American Experience<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wasn’t always obsessed with Lyndon Baines Johnson. <\/p>\n

This particular itch began several years ago. I was at home, nursing a cold, when I decided to watch a documentary about Lyndon Johnson. On the couch, sniffly, and uncomfortable I fell into and out of sleep, the movie playing in the background. When I woke up, I had been impregnated with a new desire to know Lyndon. He had entered my heart. He has been at home there ever since.<\/p>\n

LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson — Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso. He rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus, like something from Shakespeare, filling the stage — 10, 12 characters in one. He is admired and he is detested. Everybody who knew him had stories. -LBJ. American Experience<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This, ahem, interest has developed into something that other people don’t understand. Many have told me as much. Wonder is what’s plastered across acquaintances’ faces when they ask themselves what I see in him.<\/p>\n

I can’t explain it either.<\/p>\n

It just is.<\/p>\n

And my life is better, richer for it.<\/p>\n

But that isn’t enough for me. I want you to see him how I see him.<\/p>\n

Join me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few presidents would ever know more triumph, few suffer such a swift and tragic fall. -LBJ. American Experience I wasn’t always obsessed with Lyndon Baines Johnson.  This particular itch began several years ago. I was at home, nursing a cold, when I decided to watch a documentary about Lyndon Johnson. 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