Avoid It: Lady Bird Johnson said that...

Avoid It: Lady Bird Johnson said that some of the things written about her husband would make her angry if she read them, so “the simplest thing is not to read them.” She was responding Tuesday to the furor over Robert Caro’s “Means of Ascent.” The book has been sharply criticized by some as being unduly harsh. The former first lady was in Washington for a reunion of Johnson Administration officials.

Arrested: Steve Gobie, the former paid lover of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), was arrested in Washington on charges of marijuana possession and destruction of property, police said Thursday. The charges stemmed from an incident Wednesday in which Gobie confronted an off-duty female police officer who was driving her personal car. The officer said Gobie was driving erratically and later jumped on the roof of her car. Frank admitted that he in the past paid Gobie for sexual favors.

Grave Dispute: According to historical letters released Wednesday in Springfield, Ill., Abraham Lincoln was almost buried in Washington, D.C. rather than Illinois. Mary Todd Lincoln was prepared to move the President’s remains to the nation’s capital if Gov. Richard Oglesby insisted on the President being interred several miles from Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, where Lincoln is in fact buried. “They began to build a vault . . . before Mrs. Lincoln finally convinced them Oak Ridge was the place where she wanted the body to be,” said a spokesman for the state’s historical agency.

By Degrees: George Bush will give the commencement addresses at television evangelist Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., this spring, Bush press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Wednesday. It marks the first visit to the school by a sitting President.