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...some vice presidential quotes from the past. Most are real zingers. For example, Thomas Marshall said, "The vice president is like a man in a cataleptic state. He cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything going on about him." LBJ apparently agreed. "It's like being naked in the middle of a blizzard with no one to even offer you a match to keep you warm--that's the vice presidency," he said. Though many accounts confirm that LBJ frequently walked around the White House naked, I don't think...
...dark side. It was said that the bright prince, John Kennedy, was Clinton's hero. Clinton is also the dark prince, Richard Nixon. Kennedy died and stayed dead. Nixon was the real Comeback Kid. Add a touch of Lyndon Johnson to Clinton's character - not the tragic, Lear-like LBJ, but the shrewd cornpone conniver, the genius politician - and finish the picture off with a quantity of Flem Snopes. There you have him, the Kingfish from Hot Springs, as gaudy and complicated as Americans...
...Miller: Harboring an alien has been against the law since 1952. In 1952, both houses of Congress adopted bills calling for sanctions against employers who illegally hired aliens. In conference committee, LBJ (then a U.S. senator from Texas) rewrote the law with what's called the "Texas proviso." The new language held that "no employer could be held responsible for employment of an unauthorized alien." Harboring (or giving shelter to an illegal alien) remained illegal, although there's been little if any enforcement. Then, in 1986, immigration laws corrected the Texas proviso and made it illegal for employers...
...Download RealPlayer 8 over home modem connection. Meanwhile, pour glass of wine and turn on TV. Watch Doris Kearns Goodwin tell touching anecdote about the dejected Lyndon Baines Johnson being unable to attend the 1968 Democratic convention. Feel heretofore unfelt connection with LBJ. Decide that Doris Kearns Goodwin is one special lady...
...Philadelphia kindly established a truly creepy display called "When the President Is Patient." The name is ambiguous only until you take a look at the photo display, which features a rundown of pictures no world leader would ever want his enemies to see, including one particularly unpleasant shot of LBJ lying in wait for gallbladder surgery. Let's just say there's something unsettling about seeing the commander-in-chief with black tubing protruding from every orifice...