LBJ insisted that Lawrence F. O’Brien take his oath of office as Postmaster General in a little post office in Hye, Texas, where he recalled mailing his first letter at the age of four.
”It was about fifty-three years ago,” said LBJ at the ceremony, “that I mailed my first letter from this post office. And Larry O’Brien told me a few moments ago that he is going out to find that letter and deliver it.”
Source:
Boller, Paul F. “Lyndon B. Johnson.” Presidential Anecdotes. New York: Oxford UP, 1981. 320. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Cormier, LBJ, 160.
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