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- Honor
Guard C om p an y,
P o o r dear boys, tem p eratu re in the high 80's, sun
b righ t, and the ja ck et of th eir u n iform s- - th eir sum m er uniform m ind you,^__
h ea vy, thick, long sleeved w ool,
l,it said that d is c ip lin e is one
- in 1969. It served as a
model for the eight-foot statue
which is in the LBJ
ational
Historic Park in Stonewall, Texas.
This bronze work, "Sunning," is a
product of Gary Yarrington's stu
dio. The model was Kiran Dix, for
merly of the Library's Volunteer
- lm and equable and gen tle m anner.
We rod e fo r about th ree h o u rs, picking up V irg in ia about 12:00,
w ith the top down, Lyndon in h is red b e r e t - - the O ctober sun a ctu a lly
hot - - and our talk ranged the w id e, w ide w orld .
Dean
- hat against th sun,
and somebody took a pictme of U1e
two of them.
I called the White House early the
n xt day and got the President because
nobody else was up yet. I asked.
"What's in the papers?'" H said.
"Well, it's go cl. You have a five-col
umn
- m e .
And then in the e a r ly m orn in g sun, w e w ent out
b y the pool - - Lyndon in the h am m ock .
I sa t b e s id e him and m ade
plans - - a p o s s ib le m e e tin g of th ose p eop le who cou ld do som eth in g
about a cq u irin g
-
Children, painted a grim portrait
of the homeless in America, and
particularly the 500,000 children
"whose only crime is to be born
poor" and whose lives, if they sur
vive infancy, is a bleak struggle for
survival in a world "where the sun
never shines
- a u g u r a l s p e e c h , r e s t in the sun and g e t a ll of th o s e
pho ne c a l ls ab o u t who h a s n 't got w h a t t i c k e t s .
/
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- e e lin g I h ad p a r k e d t h i s t i t l e lik e a h eavy c o a t i n t h e c l o s e t
a n d s t a r t e d w a lk in g lig h tly in t h e T e x a s sun . T hen w e w e n t to F o r t W o r th
'
to t h e M u s e u m of t h e S o u th w est to b
- voice and sing. ..
Sing a song full of the hope
that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our
new day begun
Let us march on till victory
is won.
-Jam.es Weldon Johnson, 1900
The
LBJ
Library
and
Museum's major exhibit for the
year featured
- in g pool.
And h e r e on o u r own f r o n t p o r c h b y c h a n c e we found i t - - p r o te c t e d
on t h r e e s id e s - - a n d it w a s n ip p y w e a t h e r but b r ig h t , gold a n d w a r m
b y the sun.
We h a d a d e lic io u s lu n ch
- h a r d and t h e o t h e r 140 o r
so g u e s t s t h a t he w ould s h o r t l y send to Europe a
Commission t o d i s c u s s j o i n t e x p l o r a t i o n s i n s p a c e ,
f.-It
le a d in g to p rob es o f the sun and J u p ite r
- because of the cheap
m rtgages. And the highways that would allow you to come
back if your job wa in the city-but it deprived us of our tax
ba e. And then you ha the infusion of an enormous number of
dollars into the Sun Belc by the federal government
- and
Dad spent at the LBJ Ranch that
this feeling was genuine-that,
in
fact, the President and Mrs. Johnson
often rode up into the hills to watch
the sun set in the distance. I had re
mained unconvinced.
In the end, my strongest feeling was
bewilderment. I
- . because they are our national
heritage just as our mountains and
streams, our forests, and the sight of
the fading sun playing on our des
erts, giving us the experience of re
gional identity and pride, saying,
"This is New York or Texas or Cali
fornia
- 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
