Volume 7, Number 9 · December 1, 1966
History as LBJ
By Alfred Kazin
Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power
by Rowl Evans, by Robert Novak
New American Library, 597 pp., $7.95
Last March I was a guest at a dinner meeting in Washington of American historians. They met in the new Smithsonian building devoted to the history of science and invention in America, a setting formidably elegant in its stripped force, to discuss History as Literature. A great pendulum, gently swaying to the rotation of the earth, hung down the length of the building from ceiling to floor, reminding me of the 'Godless Museum' in Moscow where the League for the Promotion of Atheism had once hung a similar pendulum in a church to show the young that Fact, not God, moved the world. Behind the dais at the Washington dinner hung the tattered American ensign which after that bombardment in 1814 was still there.
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