It was appropriate that Lyndon Johnson should have brought together a crowd as large and richly complex as his own history had been. The ceremonies dedicating the new L.B.J. Library at the University of Texas last week were the greatest omnium-gatherurn of present and former political power since the last presidential inauguration; it was a retrospective gallery of an era. There, under the monolithic and somehow Assyrian proportions of the library, were several thousand of Lyndon Johnson's friends and not a few of his old enemies, along with Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew and dozens of the other men who took...
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