Negotiating to end the machinist strike that shut down the 60 of the u. S. Commercial airline industry. Narrator in 1908, few people outside of texas hill country could tell with any certainty where the Pedernales River was located. But on the banks of that river in a modest springhouse a baby , was born to sam and rebecca johnson, a baby whose grandfather proudly proclaimed to the countryside a united , states senator was born today, my grandson. The old gentleman was partly right, but he set his sights too low. For the son of sam and rebecca johnson, a half century later, visits the same house on the banks of the pedernales, not as senator, but as president of the United States. Here in his beloved hill country, he rests for a few days observes with his family and friends the 190th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence. He would unwind but not completely. For as he celebrates the National Holiday as a private citizen he still bears the , burden of presidency.