I didn?t want to go into the foreign service and I had never even seen the Georgetown campus when I was at Boys Nation, but I wanted to go back to Washington; Georgetown had the best academic reputation in the city; the intellectual rigor of the Jesuits was legendary and fascinating to me; and I felt that I needed to oil painting know all I could about international affairs, and that somehow I would absorb all I could learn about domestic issues just by being in Washington in the mid-sixties. I thought I would get in, because I was fourth in my class of 327, my College Board scores were pretty good, and Georgetown tried to have at least one student from every state (an early affirmative action program!). Still, I was worried.I had decided that if I got turned down at Georgetown, I?d go to the University of Arkansas, which had an open admissions policy for Arkansas high school graduates, and where the smart money said aspiring politicians should go anyway. In the second week of April, my acceptance notice from Georgetown arrived. I was happy, but by then I?d begun to question the wisdom of going. I didn?t get a scholarship and it was so expensive: $1,200 for tuition and $700 for room and fees, plus books, food, oil paintings and other expenses. Although we were a comfortable middle-class family by Arkansas standards, I was worried that my folks couldn?t afford it. And I was worried about being so far away and leaving Mother and Roger alone with Daddy, though age was slowing him down. My guidance counselor, Edith Irons, was adamant that I should go, that it was an investment in my future that my parents should make. Mother and Daddy agreed. Also, Mother was convinced that once I got there and proved myself I?d get some financial help. So I decided to give it a shot.I graduated from high school on the evening of May 29, 1964, in a ceremony at Rix Field, where we played our football games. As fourth-ranked student, I got to give the benediction. Subsequent court decisions on religion in public schools, had they been law then, might have taken us prayer leaders off the program. I agree that tax money should not be used to advance purely religious causes, but I was honored to get in the last word at the end of my high school years.My benediction reflected my deep religious convictions as well as a little politics as I prayed that God would ?leave within us the youthful idealism and moralism which have made our people strong. Sicken us at the sight of apathy, ignorance, and rejection so that our generation will remove complacency, poverty, and prejudice from the hearts of free men. . . . Make us care so that we will never know the china oil painting misery and muddle of life without purpose, and so that when we die, others will still have the opportunity to live in a free land.?I know that some nonreligious people may find all this offensive or na?ve but I?m glad I was so idealistic back then, and I still believe every word I prayed.After graduation, I went with Mauria Jackson to our senior party at the old Belvedere Club, not far from our Park Avenue house. handmade oil paintings Since Mauria and I were both unattached at the time and had been in grade school together at St. John?s, it seemed like a good idea, and it was.The next morning, I headed into my last summer as a boy. It was a typical, good, hot Arkansas summer, and it passed quickly, oil painting reproductions with a sixth and final trip to the university band camp, and a return to Boys State as a counselor. That summer I helped Daddy for a couple of weeks with the annual inventory at Clinton Buick, something I had done a few times before. It?s hard to remember today, when records are computerized and parts can be ordered from efficient distribution centers, that in those days we kept parts in stock for cars more than ten years old, and counted them all by hand every year. The small parts were in little cubbyholes55

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