{"id":6946,"date":"2012-04-28T02:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T07:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6946"},"modified":"2012-04-28T02:52:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T07:52:04","slug":"caro-syrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6946","title":{"rendered":"Caro Syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If my eight loyal readers didn&#8217;t anticipate this I&#8217;ll make it clear. My book is not going to be finished this year. I concluded over a month ago that to do it justice it would take a minimum of two more years. That&#8217;s on top of six off and on years of researching it. That means it won&#8217;t be a practical way for me to solicit contributions for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.com\">campaign for Congress<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t decided for sure whether to file. Goodness knows I have my doubts that Cravaack can be defeated by the three announced DFLers. This ain&#8217;t Jim Oberstar&#8217;s old District and none of them are Jim Oberstar and even Jim lost the support of the MCCL in his hour of need. If Cravaack&#8217;s challenger goes down to defeat and I finish my book in two years I can certainly use it to raise cash to run against Cravaack in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>I recently read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/15\/magazine\/robert-caros-big-dig.html\">this article<\/a> on the biographer I stand most in awe of, Robert Caro. He and his wife, an archivist, have essentially given their life over to reconstructing Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s life and retelling it in what was first supposed to be a three volume set. I&#8217;ve been waiting for the fourth and final volume for ten years. In fact, I need it for my own book to put Hubert Humphrey in better context. It turns out that Caro is going to have to turn his life&#8217;s work into a five volume set if he lives long enough to complete it. The new volume four may be her this summer or fall. I may be another decade older before the last one is finished.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of the time I visited Texas and we paid a call on LBJ&#8217;s old home in 2006 as I was beginning to research my own history. Lady Bird was still living there and she was <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=132\">sitting out front<\/a> as our tour bus drove by. One of the National Park Rangers at the site told me that <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=131\">Caro had almost died<\/a> after finishing the third volume and the Ranger was afraid he&#8217;d not get to read the continuing saga if Caro didn&#8217;t take better care of himself. <\/p>\n<p>Lady Bird stopped talking to Caro after he published this Pulitzer winning first volume. I&#8217;m afraid that the dozen or so remaining insiders to my story won&#8217;t be very eager to talk to me either. If not, the Newspapers and courtroom testimony will have to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my eight loyal readers didn&#8217;t anticipate this I&#8217;ll make it clear. My book is not going to be finished this year. I concluded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,103,47,25,109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6946"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7016,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946\/revisions\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}