Category: Social

It is said of Boswell, the famous biographer of Samuel Johnson, that he often referred to a special day in his childhood when his father took him fishing. His father’s sweet tutelage that day captured the imagination of his young mind. He often reflected upon many of the things his father taught him during that…

Sam Rayburn, as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, was one of the most powerful politicians in America for decades. Yet, when Speaker Rayburn recounted the most influential moments in his life, he noted a railroad station in East Texas. According to Lyndon Johnson’s biographer, Robert Caro (1983), young Sam recalled this moment, “at…