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guest: and they said that in a full box, you have 800 pages, so you just sit there. you know, when i was a newspaper reporter, just starting out, i was 20, and i had this editor who told me, turn every page, never assume anything. and, with his early life at least, it was physically possible to look at every piece of paper. c-span: how much new information is it? i know it s a tough question to answer, but is there a lot of new information in these books? this is your second book? guest: well, i think it s pretty largely new information because lyndon johnson, you know, when i started this, there were already 17 biographies of lyndon johnson, and i felt that his youth and his early years, i would hardly have to do any work on, because i thought they had been covered over and over again, but when i went to texas, i started finding out that most of the stories that we knew about him, the anecdotes that we knew about him, were really a legend that he had, in effect, ....