We just sold another letter that has old dealer pencil markings in the corner. Old dealer marks sometimes indicate the dealer’s price for the item. More often, they are a code that told the dealer what he or she paid for the item. In my opinion, there is a better way than writing on an …
The ego of LBJ.
Lyndon Baines Johnson had an ego that words cannot capture. A large man at 6’ 4”, Johnson often towered over others. He enjoyed giving them the “Johnson treatment” by leaning into them, sometimes over them, and so invading their personal space that he made himself superior by their discomfort. Photographs of Johnson giving the treatment …
