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>>>>Now, have you heard of XX and XY chromosones? We (men) are inherently weak in our genetic make-up. Women live longer.
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>>>Terry;
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>>>About women living longer (in the United States): A study indicated that men lived longer than women until about 1900 in this country. The opposite is true today. This has been attributed to the hard work women had to perform without the use of any of today’s appliances. A woman’s life in the United States was very hard.
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>>There is a brief discourse in Robert Caro's biography of LBJ about what life was like for women in Texas Hill Country around the turn of the 20th century. He breaks it down into daily tasks, for instance the number of times they had to walk to the well, the average number of steps, the weight of water and pails, and so on. Backbreaking work, almost literally. No wonder Texas women are not people to mess with idly!
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>>If you like biographies, BTW, that is one of the best I have read. There are three volumes out, with the fourth and final volume, focusing on his Presidency, still to come. Caro has the writer's gift of making history come alive. None of those deadly dull early chapters you find in so many bios. Another little detail I loved was the nickname LBJ had at the junior college he attended: Bull Johnson. You can probably guess what "Bull" abbreviated. Even then he had a reputation for not being strictly truthful.
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>Thank you for the references. LBJ as I have said many times is my least favorite president! I enjoy reading about him and know stories that I heard while I was stationed in Texas. The stories were told by his two neighbors who were the grandsons of the two men who helped the original Johnson establish Johnson City.
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>LBJ used eminent domain to take the land from the grandsons of the Johnson City cofounders (large adjoining ranches to the LBJ ranch) to create the LBJ Library, etc. Let me say that in 1965-1966 while I was stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base, LBJ was despised by many Texans in Johnson City and San Angelo (Tom Green County) for a number of reasons.
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>Some stories about LBJ are very funny and others are tragic. I am happy he did not run for reelection. At least he had enough sense to realize what he had gotten us into (Vietnam) and bowed out of the political arena.
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>I also dislike Adolph Hitler and enjoy reading about him as well as talk to Germans who lived through the period of 1930-1945. I can imagine Adolph Hitler's mother being interviewed about her son and stating, "Adolph was a good boy"!


LBJ is far from my favorite President, too. (The only ones who come to mind as lower in my esteem are Nixon and the incumbent). He was quite a fascinating man, though. And his administration was not without its achievements, even though the main thing everyone remembers is Vietnam turning into a debacle on his watch. He managed to push through some lasting civil rights legislation, despite the opposition of some hard core racists in the Senate, and anti-poverty legislation. He got some things done that JFK probably would not or could not have if he had lived. I think over time, as his offputting personality recedes, his stature among ex-Presidents will rise.