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  • . That's where John Quincy Adams said he feigned being asleep but he could hear what the people were saying across the hall and he could cut off debate. That's where Abraham Lincoln sat for his one term from Illinois. Back • • • over here was James K
  • and under its bright beam with nighttime lights. Early on. I bumped into Mr. Sam Rayburn one evening who said: "Isn't it the most beautiful sight in the world?" When Pearl Harbor came, the lights brieny went out. I knew then that when they came on again
  • of the place captured many as they watched the Texas­ orange sun disappear behind the horizon, its beams shimmering on the river. Johnson's famed Texas barbecues were the talk of the international political set. his favorite musi­ cians playing country, western
  • , a conservative stronghold, would give the K nneclys a warm and friendly welcome. With great pride I beamed at our guests, at my husband, at our eager Texans cheering and waving, and knew that things could not be better ... '·Our caravan gathered speed and "I