Anyone been watching the LBJ Whitehouse tapes?

[RufusEarl]

It's been running on CSpan and it's very interesting. To go back and hear what took place during those troubling times.

[AngryAmish]

1. Are you talking about the tapes he made of his phone calls

and of meetings with the bugs? Have they gotten to the one where he orders pants?

[SaveElmer]

2. That on is hilarious!!!...nt

[CottonBear]

5. What did he say? I'm curious. Pants? n/t

[SaveElmer]

7. He is ordering a pair of pants...

From a particular tailor that was recommended to him. The jist is, he wanted pants loose enough so his balls wouldn't be constricted. I don't have the transcript, but his language is very colorful, and extremely funny!

[AngryAmish]

8. "It's like ridin' a wire fence."

[SaveElmer]

9. Here's part of the transcript

LBJ: Now the pockets, when you sit down, everything falls out, your money, your knife, everything, so I need at least another inch in the pockets. And another thing - the crotch, down where your nuts hang - is always a little too tight, so when you make them up, give me an inch that I can let out there, uh because they cut me, it's just like riding a wire fence. These are almost, these are the best I've had anywhere in the United States,

JH: Fine

LBJ: But, uh when I gain a little weight they cut me under there. So, leave me , you never do have much of margin there. See if you can't leave me an inch from where the zipper (burps) ends, round, under my, back to my bunghole, so I can let it out there if I need to.


http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/lbj_haggar.html

[CottonBear]

11. OMG! That is freaking hilarious. *I must not laugh out loud at work.*

Thank you for enlightening me regarding the "pants tape." :rofl:

A girl never thinks about these things. Who knew? :eyes:

edit: Beavis and Butthead would love this particular taped conversation:
"Heh, heh. He said bunghole." :rofl:

edit: sp.

[AngryAmish]

14. LBJ used the same wiretapping system as Nixon

I think all presidents used it until Nixon got caught.

[Radical Activist]

15. A President of the United State said "Bunghole"

As much as he screwed up in Vietnam...I sure do love Johnson.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. If that's the worst he said, these are REALLY cleaned up. LBJ knew all the

words, and how to use them. References to various bodily excretions should fill the transcripts.

[AngryAmish]

10. Link

<http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/lbj_haggar.html>

Listen, it is f'n funny

[CottonBear]

13. LOL! Thank you! n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. LBJ

was a real hoot !

[xxqqqzme]

4. HBO produced a very good movie

a few years ago w/ coversations based on the tapes. It all centered around the build-up in Viet-nam. The title escapes me during this very senior moment. Michael Gambon played LBJ, Felicity Huffman Ladybird, Alex Baldwin - McNamara. I can remember all that but not the title.

[Zen Democrat]

6. Path to War n/t

[CottonBear]

12. I love his conversations with Jackie Kennedy after the death of JFK.

He is flirting but he's also kind. She is very gracious.

[eppur_se_muova]

17. Can't wait for the next volume in Caro's LBJ bio -- with this material to

work with, I can't even imagine what he'd do.