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Answers In Paragraphs
Herndon’s experience as a public speaker holds him in good stead—he loves to discuss these matters. Anyone who knows him locally could recognize him from a description which appeared in a 1970 issue of Best’s Review, a trade journal for insurance agents. “He is articulate in the extreme, garrulous even by his own admission, knowledgeable, enthusiastic,” wrote an associate editor. “When responding to a question, he answers not in words or sentences but in paragraphs, each argument or proposition or position burnished to a high state of brightness by countless hours of exposition. He radiates charm but behind it is a mind that documents every answer, never loses its place, and seeks continually to inform and persuade. Maurice Herndon lobbies everybody—.”
No wonder then that he answered in whole paragraphs when asked to identify his favorite president.
He remembers visiting Woodrow Wilson’s home on S Street the day of his death. As a child he lived just two blocks from the former president. The aunts had sent him with a daily bouquet of flowers for former first lady Edith Galt Wilson until on the last day she gave him a big kiss and then wrote him a thank-you letter in which she called him “Dear little boy.”
In those days he and his friends were always welcome at the White House where they went to see “Brother Bill” Simmons of the Secret Service. (A nearby rich kid reciprocated by giving him rides to school in chauffered Pierce Arrow Rolls with gooseneck lights.)
His perspective on the presidency is similar to that of the typical American family towards the neighbors down the street—and so his favorite president was the
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