We will continue to benefit and learn more about President Lyndon Johnson as fresh biographies hit the bookshelves mainly from historians studying the Johnson White House tapes. A fine article by Richard Rothschild (“A Texas original; Giving LBJ the legacy he never had,” Perspective, May 26) clearly reminds us of some of the historic legislation enacted during his presidency that was overshadowed by his expansion of the Vietnam War.
The experience we watched on TV had him finally leaving office a tired old man. He will be remembered in history as one of our master political figures from his years and record in the Congress.
Rothschild correctly stated that the South’s GOP connection probably started then with the Johnson era, but please don’t rewrite current history in referring to Southern Democrat Al Gore as a centrist. My Webster’s would call this a stretch.
