Great LBJ phone coversation.... graphic!

[Wickerman]

The President twirled his finger or said "take this" when he wanted Juanita Roberts or his other secretaries to tape a call. The secretaries often forgot to turn the machines off, capturing conversations the President didn't necessarily want on the record.

LBJ: Mr. Hagger?
Hagger: Yes, this is Joe Hagger.
LBJ: Joe, is your father the one that makes clothes?
Hagger: Yes, we're all together.
LBJ: Uh huh... {fade under}

On an August Sunday in 1964 President Johnson is at his ranch in Texas. He calls the chairman of the Haggar Company in Dallas to order some custom-made slacks. LBJ's instructions are particularly graphic.

LBJ: I want 'em half an inch larger in the waist than they were before. The pockets when I sit down in the chair, the knife and your money comes out. So I need at least another inch in the pockets. Another thing - the crotch, down where your nuts hang - is always a little too tight, because they cut me, it's like riding a wire fence. See if you can't leave me an inch from where the zipper (burp) ends, right back to my bunghole. {fade under}

Great piece from American Radio works - they have the actual audio clip - gott listen to the clip just for the audio quality of the (burp). Johnson was a Texan, dammit - not like that (^**&^$# Bush*.

http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/prestapes/transcript.html

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. Johnson said "BUNGHOLE"

Oh god. LBJ & Butthead, the new MTV cartoon.

:)

[Richardo]

2. Forgive the sexist generalization, but there was a real, Texas, MAN...

"...when I sit down in the chair, the knife and your money comes out...

The current Pretender couldn't even fill the crotch of a pair of toreador pants.

I concur with your assessment, lunabush: Johnson was a Texan, dammit - not like that (^**&^$# Bush*.

[Brucey]

3. Real men don't slaughter innocent Vietnamese.

[Richardo]

4. You're right - how can I ever laugh again?

:eyes:

[Brucey]

6. I was in college when LBJ (who was a great leader in some ways)

escalated the adventures in southeast asia. I came to hate him and his warmongering buddies and became a lifelong liberal. I marched in the streets, nearly went to jail, became a conscientious objector, and learned to distrust and hate my government. My leader then was Clean Gene: Eugene McCarthy, still a voice of sanity in the wilderness. Too bad the rest of the country thought Nixon was the answer. He was as evil and corrupt as Bush*. I came to hate him with a passion. He and Kissinger were responsible for the murders of millions of innocent people. In fact, Nixon said to K: "The only difference between us is that you care about the civilian casualites." And K replied, "I only care because I don't want you to look evil." It's on tape.

[alphafemale]

5. "The Moment" comes about 5min 20 secs into part two.

It's great to hear historic figures sound human.

[JVS]

7. If it were Nixon, Reagan or Bush

I bet that people would be saying things along the lines of "What a crude lowlife"

[Richardo]

8. They would - because those guys hold themselves up as NOT crude lowlifes

LBJ never denied or betrayed his crude-lowlifeness.