[Lyndon is taught his alphabet in the cradle and seems to be a friendly baby . . . ."According to his mother, one man said, 'Sam [Johnson's father] you've got a politician there. I've never seen such a friendly baby. He's a chip off the old block. I can just see him running for office twenty-odd years from now.' And the neighbors remembered how Sam beamed as his boy was praised.

But Lyndon was an unusually restless baby. [Caro recounts how although she made light of it later, Rebekah the mother was constantly worried by Lyndon's frequent "running away."] . . . . "Relatives who lived a half-mile - or more - away would suddenly notice the tiny figure toddling along with grim determination - a picture of Lyndon Johnson [pictured here on the right] is striking not only for his huge ears but for the utter maturity of his expression; the face of the child in that picture is not the face of a child at all- across the open country or up one of the long dirt tracks that branch off to the various farms from the main 'roads'. They would take him back to Rebekah-and the very next day, or, if Rebekah wasn't careful, the same day, the tiny figure would appear again."

Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (New York: Random House, 1981)

Question: Do you really think it is possible to interpret - analytically, the character of a human being by a baby picture? Or is Caro taking later characteristics and seeing them in the face of a baby? Keep in mind, Caro's training is in journalism.