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the habit of planning ahead. He remembers lying in bed and wondering, “What am I going to do now?”
He had loved playing baseball. The polio slowed him down and left him wearing a leg brace, but he still played the game, specializing in bunting.
He noted that President Franklin Roosevelt, who also suffered from polio, said that anyone who wants to be President should spend a year in bed.
Mr. Herndon added, “You also need to be raised in an atmosphere that is conducive to thinking.” When his father died, he was raised by his grandmother and three aunts while his mother worked. “Civility was the order of the day and the need to plan for the future,” he said.
He grew up in Washington, D.C. and remembers watching from his sick bed wagons hauling coffins for the victims of the influenza epidemic of 1918.
The only man in the family was “Brother Bill.” Not really a relative but a close family friend, Bill Simmons, began his government career as a secret service agent under President Harding, became a receptionist and head usher at the White House and retired when John Kennedy was President. Mr. Simmons resembled Franklin Roosevelt and stood in for Roosevelt during morale boosting train trips around the country when the President was actually out of the country negotiating with other Allied leaders during World War II.
Mr. Herndon used this family connection to gain front-door entry to the White House when he had visitors from out of town.
Mr. Herndon’s own government career began as an aide to a Virginia congressman. When the congressman was defeated he had opportunities to work for other congressman, even John Kennedy when he was a newly elected representative from Boston, but he left govemement service to start the Washington of
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