When it comes to the milder, ongoing culture wars, Caro is more restrained.
During tea Christian compares the two women and decides that Caro, the more dazzling sister, is beyond his means.
People close to Johnson's widow, Lady Bird Johnson, now 90, say she stopped granting Mr. Caro interviews more than two decades ago, after several Johnson associates warned her that Mr. Caro's portrait might not be favorable.
But the call of April 11, the younger Mr. Caro said, felt more urgent.
Now in her 10th set of High Holy Days at the United Hebrew Congregation of Singapore, Ms. Caro embodies the more stable end of the traveling cantor spectrum.
This third volume nearly as long as the first two books combined covers Johnson's 12 years as a senator.Mr Caro opens with more than 100 pages on the pre-Johnson Senate.
East of town, the highway follows Caro Road through more farm fields in through the community of Watrousville.
By the time he gets home, he's almost forgotten Caro, and is even more desirous of Grace.
"It's unbelievable!" Caro now finds Johnson more fascinating than ever, he told me, and added: "It's not a question of liking or disliking him.
As well as winning back those butterfly-spotters, Mr Caro wants to attract more visitors in the summer, when the monarchs are away and local restaurants and petrol stations see little custom.
Caro has always been more drawn towards the purely visual element in art than to what he refers to as "that sort of Surrealist orientation, that literary or poetic orientation.
