For some time, Sam went on, listing all the arguments against Lyndon running—until not only Stella (whose fried chicken Lyndon had loved “better than anything in the whole wide world”) but her husband was moved to come to Lyndon’s defense, and point out that his youthfulness was offset by his Washington experience. Steering the conversation (“I only realized later, when I thought about it, what he was doing,” Stella says), Sam made them work out for themselves the reasons why his son should be supported; let them convince themselves more firmly than he could have convinced them. Evidence of
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