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...next major stop: assistant to Texas Congressman Dick Kleberg. In Washington he cheated his way to victory in another election (for leadership of a group of legislative aides) and carefully cultivated the crowned heads of Congress. Chief among them was House Minority Leader (later Speaker) Sam Rayburn, a fellow Texan who became his beloved mentor, and whom Johnson eventually betrayed in a competition to become Franklin D. Roosevelt's chief operative in Texas. "Lyndon had one of the most incredible capacities for dealing with older men," recalls F.D.R. Brain Truster Tommy Corcoran, whose boss was among those captivated...
...Glassboro, N.J., Lyndon Johnson met Alexei Kosygin, one of the reigning triumvirate that replaced Khrushchev. Johnson devised an elaborate form of body language in an effort to convince Kosygin that he was dealing with a tough Texan. L.B.J. gave the Soviet one of his crusher handshakes, then hovered over the shorter Kosygin. Convinced that eye contact was a measure of a man's determination, Johnson locked eyes with Kosygin at one crucial point. Needing a sip of coffee, L.B.J. felt for his cup on the table rather than release his visual grip on Kosygin, who finally blinked and looked...
Matt Houston (ABC, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) is a megarich Texan who seems to have gone into the crime-busting business because he saw too much television. As played, with some finesse, by Lee Horsley, Houston looks a little like Tom Selleck, sounds a lot like James Garner and apparently borrows his wardrobe from J.R. Ewing. Houston has all sorts of technological niceties at his fingertips, from a computer to a whirlybird. At least he has the good taste to not get caught up in the futuristic excesses of Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff), who, in Knight Rider (NBC, Fridays...
...solemn, a Macy's parade of expressionist bric-a-brac: skulls, bullfights, crucifixes, severed heads. It includes portraits of the likes of Baudelaire, Artaud, Burroughs and other connoisseurs of crisis. It serves up, by implication, the image of Schnabel himself as a young Prince of Aquitaine, albeit a Texan one, sleepless with memory and disillusion, contemplating the wrenched spare parts of history: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins." In short, it is pretentious in a blustering all-American way, and through its angst one catches the glint of a beady little eye. But at least Schnabel does...
...which has 2,500 members in Texas (82,000 nationwide), has petitioned the commissioner of education to allow positive as well as critical testimony in next year's hearings, and hopes to open up the proclamation process that sets standards for Texas books. Says Michael Hudson, a native Texan in charge of PFAW's office in Austin: "Next week I hit the roads across Texas. I'm going to try to increase the level of interest in the process. My role will be that of a catalyst to open things...