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Michael Transactions: Nov 11, 2013

LBJ bought his first suit that fit him at age 32

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Michael Transactions: Nov 11, 2013

He also won his first congressional office at age 28

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Mia Wasikowska: Oct 7, 2006

Kennedy might have been in constant back pain, but imagine Johnson's enormous balls suffering for years in his ill fitting pants

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Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

Both halves of that ticket had overworked balls, really.

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Lord of Pie: Mar 2, 2007

Kennedy would have had a lot less trouble if he had a pair of Johnson pants cutting him from balls to bunghole.

Actually all of the Kennedys.

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Paper With Lines: Aug 21, 2013; The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

Squizzle posted:

Both halves of that ticket had overworked balls, really.

# ? Jul 23, 2015 16:22

Sally: Jan 9, 2007; Don't post Small Dash!

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/This+history+April+1965/6401824/story.html#ixzz3gjU65DZR posted:

It is part of the legend of Lyndon B. Johnson that on this day in 1965, the U.S. president reportedly grabbed Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson by the lapels and shouted: "Don't you come into my living room and piss on my rug."

Pearson, who eight years earlier had won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to resolve the Suez Crisis, was on another push for peace. He had been invited to Camp David after proposing a "Pause for Peace," a limited halt to U.S. air strikes against North Vietnam. Pearson told Johnson the ploy had worked for LBJ's predecessor, John F. Kennedy, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK had cooled that war of words long enough for U.S.S.R. leader Nikita Khrushchev to find a graceful exit after getting caught shipping Soviet missiles to the island nation.

Pearson hoped that giving Hanoi breathing room would allow the Communist North Vietnamese government to find a way to start peace talks without losing face.

But LBJ said no way.

https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9687 posted:

Donaghy relates that at the first Washington summit between the two leaders, in January 1964, "the differences dividing the two men were evident" (p. 43). Pearson did not help matters by gossiping during dinner with Secretary of State and fellow Oxonian Dean Rusk, an inexcusable faux pas to the famously insecure Johnson. Things had not improved by the time the two leaders met again, almost exactly a year later at the LBJ Ranch in Texas. Donaghy's vivid description of the encounter is worth quoting at length:

"Dressed in a formal black suit and diplomat's homburg, Pearson was discomfited on arriving at the ranch to discover the president in a cowboy suit. A barrage of television cameras awaited the two men, whose meeting began poorly when Johnson introduced Pearson as '[British] Prime Minister [Harold] Wilson.' There was no time during the two-day meeting for the kind of leisurely, wide-ranging discussion of international developments that Pearson enjoyed. Instead, loaded into three cars, Johnson, Pearson, the 'press,' and the 'ladies' embarked on a whirlwind tour of the ranch. The president dispensed drinks liberally and swore loudly. Dinner was a hurried and informal affair; steak and catfish on the same plate. Throughout, aides and valets bustled about and telephones rang. 'General MacArthur would not have approved, nor, I suspect,' Pearson observed, 'John Kennedy.' The visit left him feeling deeply disturbed" (p. 127). It was, then, something of a miracle that Pearson and Johnson were able to work together at all. If personal relations mattered very little in getting things done, it was, as Donaghy points out, largely due to diligent efforts in both capitals to make it so.

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