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I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

I was a very, very good congressman.

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

The first president I met was L. B. J.