Books
August, 1967
Perhaps it is cruel and unusual punishment to learn that the President of the United States holds his dish of melon balls up close to his chin as he eats breakfast and that he "does not dawdle" in the bathroom. Such intimacies, however, are par for the coarse these days. Jim Bishop, who did the blow-by-blow on Christ, Lincoln and Kennedy, lowers his sights in his newest book to A Day in the Life of President Johnson (Random House). He compresses the events of 11 days he spent with the...