[malia]

Soooo it was true!!! I always thought my Aunt was exaggerating. She always made a story so much more exciting. Can't wait to tell my family it was true.

Does Clinton have the same type of protection.

[MARTIAL MONK]

I don't think he was pulling my leg. I don't think it was any kind of mafia type organization either. Texas was highly partisan Democrat at the time and it would have been like pulling out a copy of Mein Kampf in a synagogue. Those boys could and did play rough, though. There were counties where there were no blacks allowed at all.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Your comments about A Texan and plain brown wrappers triggered an association in my mind that I just can't place. I'm trying to cut through about forty years of alcohol induced fog when I can't remember where I left my reading glasses five minutes ago but I have heard someone make the connection before, somewhere.

I was a pup at the time but I was fortunate enough to be around men who foresaw intuitively the tumult that was about to engulf the country. One could not look at Lyndon Johnson and not know that he was a dangerous man, the same way that a later generation could sense that Bill Clinton was a threat. It may have been an overly cautious reaction but one does not advertise opposition to gray men in gray suits who have power and no restraint. A plain brown wrapping, I think, would have been a prudent precaution at the time.