Emo's
Texans in the White House: Please Stop This Discussion!
RECEIVED Wed., May 5, 2004
Dear Editor,
Re: The letter from Linda L. Wiles (April 30) ["Postmarks"]. Although Dwight D. Eisenhower may have been born in Texas, he was always considered a Kansan, not a Texan (since he grew up in Abilene, Kan.). Besides, that's not really the point. When Gene Elder ["Postmarks," April 16] spoke of there having been a Texan in the White House at the time the John Wayne version of The Alamo was released, he obviously meant Lyndon Johnson (who most definitely was considered a Texan). And the fact is that that film was released a full three years before Johnson assumed the presidency.
Re: The letter from Linda L. Wiles (April 30) ["Postmarks"]. Although Dwight D. Eisenhower may have been born in Texas, he was always considered a Kansan, not a Texan (since he grew up in Abilene, Kan.). Besides, that's not really the point. When Gene Elder ["Postmarks," April 16] spoke of there having been a Texan in the White House at the time the John Wayne version of The Alamo was released, he obviously meant Lyndon Johnson (who most definitely was considered a Texan). And the fact is that that film was released a full three years before Johnson assumed the presidency.
Lynn Hereford