Word: lyndon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embarrassing presidential brother, for example, has developed into a sort of genre. Lyndon Johnson's younger sibling, Sam Houston Johnson, wandered up and down the back stairs of Lyndon's career, drinking too much and now and then writing a bad check. L.B.J. had to assign a Secret Service agent to keep him out of trouble. A rivalry with the leader of the free world played hell with Sam's self-image...
...president also derided Sam's sense of hunor. Shortly after Kennedy's assassination, with the country still in mourning and life in Washington finally veering toward normal, Lyndon went out of his way to pay a call on his brother...
...Lyndon," responded Sam, trying to be funny, "I had nothing to do with Oswald...
...Goddamnit, Sam!" yelled Lyndon. "What the hell kind of remark is that?" The president hung up only after giving his brother a 20-minute tongue-lashing...
...behaved more like Lyndon's prize Airedale than his brother. He lived in the White House with the president and Lady Bird, before, between and after his two marriages, both of which ended in divorce. Lyndon, who used to turn out the lights in Sam's bedroom to save electricity, sincerely worried about Sam's carousing and would wait for him to come home, then chew him out for drinking too much...