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The answers to everything are in those hills – Hill Country, that is, in central Texas. 24,000 square miles of rugged wonder; maybe the most authentic American landscape.

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Back in my heyday in corporate, I ran with some real boozehounds. We weren’t degenerate drunks, but we toed the line—so did our bosses, and their bosses too. The culture was so saturated with alcohol you could’ve wrung it out of a towel.

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As I meandered through the hills with a giant plug in my cheek, I got to thinking: what would it be like to have Willie Nelson in the White House?

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As I read about Sam Johnson, LBJ’s father, I took a hard stop and wrote, in all caps, AM I THIS MAN? in the middle of the page.