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...often (but alas, not always) hilarious. A cast-of-thousands stacked with comedy veterans, from Aykroyd to Belushi to Candy to Slim Pickens to Tim Matheson to . . . to everybody, even Patti LuPone and an uncredited Penny Marshall. Not for the high-falutin, but that scene with the door . . . whooeee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potato Harbor | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...Whooeee! Whooeee!" One afternoon, the President gazed dreamily around his spread and sighed contentedly to reporters assembled: "The cows are fat. The grass is green. The river's full, and the fish are flopping." To prove it, he hopped into his Continental to play tour guide, invited in four reporters, including Hearst's pretty blonde Marianne Means and two other newswomen. More reporters and photographers scrambled into five other Johnson-owned vehicles, and the whole caravan jounced at high speeds across a pasture, zigzagging around dung mounds and clusters of fat white-faced cattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Mr. President, You're Fun | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...catch one." They started chasing the little pigs, and just as Country Boy Johnson had known all along, the angry sow charged the frightened photographers. While the city slickers fell all over themselves eluding the sow, Johnson guffawed exuberantly, honked his cow horn repeatedly and roared, "Whooeee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Mr. President, You're Fun | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...Whooeee!" Finally, a pig was run to ground, and the President dutifully posed. During the tour, Reporter Means, her baby-blue eyes fastened on Johnson, cooed: "Mr. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Mr. President, You're Fun | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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