August 27, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
He followed Cactus Jack, FDR’s first Veep, in having a low opinion of these jobs. John Nance Gardner famously said “Being Vice President ain’t worth a bucket of warm piss.” He was born near Bogata (pronounce Bow-GO-ta) in Red River County, not far from Paris. http://www.knoxfocus.com/2014/10/cactus-jack-john-nance-garner-texas/
1Johnson had the guts to take it. Too many modern-day Dems don’t. They won’t fight for anything. (I am not including Obama in that list–he’s cool.)
2Miz JJ punches up my buttons here. LBJ was very quotable, and that’s a good one. My favorite, which I keep handy at my desk at home, is attributed to LBJ referring to FBI Director for Life, J Edgar Hoover, to wit:
“It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
As I have matured (or gotten older, as the case may be), LBJ’s wisdom has only grown with my experience. And yes, there are a lot of J Edgar Hoovers in the world.
3@Mary K Croft
John Nance Garner.
4If he hadn’t gotten sucked into Vietnam, LBJ would go down in history as one of our greatest Presidents. Maybe he should anyway.
5Johnson was much better than what followed him.
6He could take it, and he could dish it out, too.
A woman once asked Lady Bird, “Can’t you get Lyndon to stop using that awful word, ‘manure’?”
Lady Bird looked at her in astonishment. “Do you know how long it’s taken me to GET him to say ‘manure’?”
7I heard that “manure” story told about Harry and Bess Truman back around 1952.
8LBJ owed a lot of his success to the fact that he knew everybody worth knowing, including their bed partners. That was his very best leverage. He got one politician to do his bidding by simply talking to the man’s mistress who told lover boy what the legislation personally meant to her and her own. Now thats politics!
9The man did certainly possess a colorful vocabulary!
10Texas should be proud as punch of LBJ, one of the best presidents we ever had.
11Too bad I can’t edit, and add this comment: LBJ said some pretty off the cuff things, but he worked his ass off for the people. He was a complete statesman.
12Whatever happened to TX politicians? It’s all been downhill lately.
13My favorite LBJ story “Legend has it that LBJ, in one of his early congressional campaigns, told one of his aides to spread the story that Johnson’s opponent fucked pigs. The aide responded “Christ, Lyndon, we can’t call the guy a pigfucker. It isn’t true.” To which LBJ supposedly replied “Of course it ain’t true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”
14Rufus, I couldn’t figure out how to get that story past Mama, but you didn’t even try….
15Being in South Texas, there were some LBJ exploits that weren’t…good…but overall I’ll put him in the “excellent Presidents” box. If he’d done nothing else but body-slamming the Civil Rights legislation through Congress, yeah that’s enough. He was one helluva politician, in the serious meaning of the term and he had, I believe, a genuine care for people of all colors.
16I’m with Elizabeth Moon. He was an SOB, but he was OUR SOB and an exceedingly shrewd politician. Besides Civil Rights, he also pushed the country into having a space program. I just found an interesting article on that based on recently declassified documents now residing in the LBJ Library, “LBJ’s Space Race: what we didn’t know then.”
17http://www.thespacereview.com/article/396/1
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/401/1
I mostly agree. I hated everything about Vietnam and LBJ’s role in it, but the rest . . . civil rights, poverty, etc., was really outstanding and I loved him for those things.
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