But you doesn't have to call me ...

Otto o.sell at telda.net
Sun Jun 24 02:51:47 CDT 2001


Can this considered to be true? 
Such obscene behaviour should have been reported in the media earlier.
What is known about the reporter's answer? 
"Hm, looks like a penis, just smaller."

Otto

>
> From Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and
> His Times, 1961-1973 (New York: Oxford UP, 1998) ...
> 
> "During a private conversation with some reporters who
> presseb him to explain why we were in Vietnam, Johnson
> lost his patience.  According to Arthur Goldberg, 'LBJ
> unzipped his fly, drew out his substantial organ, and
> declared, 'This is why!'" (p. 491)
> 
> Cited in Mark Crispin Miller, The Bush Dyslexicon:
> Observations on a National Disorder (New York: W.W.
> Norton, 2001), p. 21 (unnumbered footnote
>





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