This column was originally published in the Houston Post on March 15, 1968.
While writing this column, Secretary of State Dean Rusk was undergoing intense grilling by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over whether the Johnson administration lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. The confrontation between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces led Congress to adopt the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which ultimately led to a dramatic increase in U.S. forces in South Vietnam.
Sure, but there were some good things about days long past. I don't see it hurts to think about them. It's not a matter of wanting to be younger; it's more a yearning for a life in which problems are not so confounded complex. So you can't tell me there isn't comfort in remembering March days a long time ago when things were better.March days when the wind blew, yes. But it had spring in it instead of winter and you already had your straw hat on. And it got blown off your head and there was something good about racing across a pasture after it. There was an uplifting of the spirit in feeling the force of a warm wind, whistling at your ears and pushing at your back.
The only wonders and complexities, the only questions without answers, they had to do with nature and not human beings. Maybe that was it. You wondered why the wind blew so hard, but you didn't worry about it.More from Bayou City HistoryYou lay on your stomach and studied a little early spring flower, and admired the colors in it and the perfume it produced.
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