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reviewed by: Lee

During my recent recovery from open heart surgery, I did a bit of reading. I had a couple I especially enjoyed. First, I liked My War by Andy Rooney. The author also who wrote for The Stars and Stripes, a newspaper for GIs published in The European Theater during WWII. I recall reading his articles back there, so reading the book was like old times.

My other choice was, This Just In, by Bob Schieffer. The author is another TV journalist, but who relates things he couldn't talk about on that media. One example, one story he tells occurred while he was covering LBJ during his Texas campaign via helicopter. At airports and pastures, LBJ would finish his talk by waving his white ten gallon (expensive) Stetson and then send it sailing into the crowd. The gesture seemed magnanimous, but the cheap LBJ would actually send the hat sailing towards one of his assistants in the crowd who would be fired if he didn't catch the hat.

The employee would then sneak around the back of the helicopter where he got in and returned the hat to LBJ! LBJ had only one such hat!

Le adds, "Another activity I used to keep my mind functioning was/is to listen to dance music and concentrate on hearing the beat! Might not sound like a lot of fun, but it should help when I get out on the dance floor again!"