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- an d I a n d Opal
an d the o th e r l a d i e s w alk ed a c r o s s the r e d c a r p e t (it s e e m e d lik e a
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
O
WASHINGTON
Sunday, N o v e m b e r 3, 1968
Page 4
fu ll c ity block) to the c e n t e r of th a t v
- in this area.
Everywhere Johnson toured he
looked up Texans on the armed
forces. He found scores of them
last week, including an enlisted
man who lived just down the
block from him in Austin.
He doesn't know whether he is
running for re-election to the
House
- . And on that corner
was the old Burleson home.
F:
Yes.
L:
And back of that was old man Stark s home, who used to manage the
1
Driskill. They re all gone.
1
now.
You see, the whole block's cleared off
But he had his headquarters, and I'd go by there once
- snack after the vote.
F:
Where?
P:
No.
Here in the Cannon Building?
The party was at the Rotunda, which is about a block and a half
from here.
I know the Rotunda.
F:
Oh, over at the restau rant.
P:
Tiger [Congressman Oli n] Teague had
- most to the Potomac River and had to double back
another three or four blocks until somebody finally pointed out the
Rotunda. Tiger had forgotte n to tell me that the "underpass 11 was
under the ground, that I couldn' t see it.
F:
It's kind of up
- near the hotel conven
tion headquarters which was the Biltmore.
So they gave us the
New International Clark, which was two and a half to three blocks
from the Biltmore. But it was an old, dilapidated, horrible
hotel~ ·
dark, dingy; the beds swayed
