LYNDON'S JOHNSON: Preempting Robert Caro's anticipated take on same, do enjoy this animated-enhanced audio from an actual phone call placed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson on August 8, 1964 to Joe Haggar (of the eponymous trouser company) in which the President sets forth his exact trouser needs in the way only he can:
Whatever this sort of thing is called, I love it. Two of my favorites are "I Met The Walrus" about a kid who snuck into John Lennon's hotel room and interviewed him and No Mas' amazing take on Dock Ellis' LSD-laden no-hitter.
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Oh, my lord, that is how I'm going to buy pants from now on. Call up the owner of the company, demand extra room down in the crotch where your nuts hang, all the way over to muh bunghole, have 'em sent to the White House.
ReplyDeletei enjoy that LBJ carried a pocketknife around with him.
ReplyDeleteHaggar could use this to break out of the Kohls ghetto: "Haggar: For Men With Balls the Size of LBJ's."
ReplyDeleteReminds me: what's the over/under age on referring to that type of garment as "slacks"?
ReplyDelete"Like riding a wire fence" is a truly great line.
ReplyDeleteAnd LBJ's weight fluctuated 15 pounds in a month?
Watts: I'm not sure of the exact age, but it's definitely who wore those shades of brown and green in the 1960s.
55? 60?
ReplyDeleteThat Dock Ellis piece is a think of beauty.
ReplyDeleteThe 15 pounds a month doesn't surprise me. He had gout, I believe, and probably congestive heart failure -- either of those will give you big swings in weight, especially if you eat like a Texas, which he did.
ReplyDeleteCheck out www.LyndonsJohnson.com - about the Lyndon's Johnson Memorial - to remember what a cold stone prick he was.
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