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This historical tidbit depressed me- about Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia -link
| German pumo | 06/14/26 |
| German pumo | 06/14/26 |
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Date: June 14th, 2026 7:09 PM Author: German pumo Imagine an America where even redneck states like Georgia wanted their best and brightest leading them and where men like that had 15 kids:
Richard Brevard Russell Sr. yearned to restore the family’s name and fortune, and for a time it seemed he would do so. Tall and handsome, a brilliant student at the University of Georgia, from which he graduated at eighteen with a command of five languages, including Latin and Greek, he graduated from law school at nineteen, almost immediately won a reputation as a young lawyer of “remarkable ability,” and was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives at twenty-one as its youngest member.
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The second move was made necessary by the number of Russell children; Ina was to spend much of the first twenty years of her marriage pregnant; she would eventually give birth to fifteen children, thirteen of whom grew to maturity.
Caro, Robert A.. Master of the Senate (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Years of Lyndon Johnson III (p. 165). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. |
Date: June 14th, 2026 7:35 PM Author: German pumo One of the best parts of this LBJ bio are Caro's chapters talking portraying great men of history I didn't know much about, like Russell or Coke Stevenson, former Texas governor.
The notion of "honor" is a joke these days, but to these men, it was like their religion. They clearly saw themselves as part of a natural aristocracy and were obsessed with how they would be remembered after they were gone. And they lived like it.
Of course, you also had complete scoundrels like LBJ, but at least he played his scoundrel games at a really high level. Not like these low-rent con artists like Trump we have today. |