Shortly before her death in 1958, Mrs. Sam Johnson prodded her son Lyndon about keeping his personal papers and documents in good order. He took her advice. When Lyndon Johnson left the White House eleven years later, he carried with him 31 million pieces of paper—the memos, minutiae and top secrets of his career. It is the largest and most complete presidential collection ever assembled,* and the library that houses it is on the same scale: a $10 million, eight-story marble vault dominated by a 60-ft. "Great Hall" built on a hill...
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