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Deadline: A Memoir

Reston, James | Random House, 1991

 

pp. 308

President Lyndon B. Johnson “was a natural mimic” who told stories “vivid with the memories of the South.  He would talk about a man who was ‘as wise as a tree full of owls’ or ‘as busy as a man with one hoe and two rattlesnakes’ or ‘as noisy as a crazy mule in an old tin barn.’”