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

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 24 08:48:37 CDT 2001


Astounding what the various American news media once
managed not to report: presidential infidelities,
presidential business dealings, distinguishing
characteristics of presidential penises ... but I'll
have to wait for the library to cough up a copy of
Miller's source to check out HIS sources, so ...

--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> 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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