"You meet the strangest people in Lyndon's bedroom." That is the intriguing first sentence of a chapter in Lady Bird Johnson's still unfinished memoirs. How did that get out? L.B.J. himself gleefully quoted from his wife's journal during his recent trip to Washington and then could not resist reciting the remainder of the anecdote: "I was awakened very early by voices. Sleepily I got up and put on my robe to go and see who Lyndon had in there at that hour. I was absolutely astonished to find"—and here the storytelling ex-President paused for...
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