Lebron James has his own library already?

I didn't know Lyndon Johnson sang.

kmmontandon: I didn't know Lyndon Johnson sang.

Like an angel. Most famously he sang the "turn around bright eyes" line in Total Eclipse of the Heart, but he was a classically trained vocalist.

What an attention whore. Trying to extend your fifteen minutes, huh Lyndon?

They're part of a series of secretly recorded Johnson conversations that have been released over several years.

Who secretly recorded these private phone conversations? The CIA? Ladybird?

Does it have the line where he asks his people to make sure his tailor gives enough room for his massive sack?

I heard he did some great Dead Kennedys covers off the top of his head.

It will never rival Shatner's cover.

DslainteC: I heard he did some great Dead Kennedys covers off the top of his head.

What you did there, I see it.

I shot the President
But I did not shoot John Conally

I shot the President
But I did not shoot John Conally

JFK always hated me.
For what, I don't know.

At least he ain't singin' about Bilbo Baggins.

My dad used to pick me up by my ears, so I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies.

I have watched those recordings on CSPAN (yes I know you want to party with me) and there is this constant thump sound in all of them. Slightly distracting. Still fun to hear how nervous people were talking to him

/can you "watch" a recording?

cksewell: They're part of a series of secretly recorded Johnson conversations that have been released over several years.

Who secretly recorded these private phone conversations? The CIA? Ladybird?



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play them backwards, see if he confesses. People have a habit of doing that.

Seriously, just about every scandal a president has done you can find them confessing when you play a speech backwards.

Thanks for the very readable article ABC

His underground stuff is surprisingly good.

I don't know whether I should look forward to or cringe at the thought of Bush's tapes being released.

I especially liked the White House Basement Tapes

measure to the bung hole

For those youngin's who know nothing about American history and think Bush was actually America's worst President ever, I present Lyndon Johnson!

Next on the list? Jimma Carter!

Crack a farking history book and do some research muther fukcers!

I was into his early stuff, before he sold out.

Smotto: Lebron James has his own library already?

I came here to say this.

libbynomore2: For those youngin's who know nothing about American history and think Bush was actually America's worst President ever, I present Lyndon Johnson!

Next on the list? Jimma Carter!

Crack a farking history book and do some research muther fukcers!

Here, here.

Here's a guy who was a pauper when he became VP in 1961, yet when he left office in '69, he owned several radio stations, and was a millionaire several times over.

Oh, and he's DIRECTLY responsible for 38,000 deaths in Vietnam, and indirectly responsible for the 20,000 deaths that occurred after he left office.

hillbillypharmacist: Does it have the line where he asks his people to make sure his tailor gives enough room for his massive sack?

One of my favorites...

...down where your nuts hang... (new window)

/Lucy was road ass

Amazon is accepting preorders of the Deluxe Edition in full 5.1 surround sound with bonus tracks of LBJ argueing with a Texas State Trooper that his Caddy's windshield was ground to his prescription so he didn't need to wear his glasses depsite what it said on the license...oh, and the open beer was just to add some humidity to the car's interior.

They're part of a series of secretly recorded Johnson conversations that have been released over several years.

Who secretly recorded these private phone conversations? The CIA? Ladybird?

Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon all recorded goings-on. Especially good are the tapes of cabinet meetings during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Great history. Got more stuff than a Beatles Anthology.

Seeing a lot of similarities between Nixon and Obama in what's reported here....not a good way to start things off.

Funny that... because today, for no reason whatsoever, I had these lyrics going through my head...

L.B.J. took the I.R.T.
down to 4th street U.S.A.
When he got there, what did he see?
The youth of America on L.S.D.



/not a hippie

Boris S. Wort: Funny that... because today, for no reason whatsoever, I had these lyrics going through my head...

L.B.J. took the I.R.T.
down to 4th street U.S.A.
When he got there, what did he see?
The youth of America on L.S.D.



/not a hippie



/hawt

FTFA: Since then, historians, students and others have heard for themselves Johnson's sometimes abrasive personality and his persuasion powers known as "the Johnson treatment."

Oddly enough, I've read Kennedy was pretty good at doling out his own "Johnson Treatment."

hurdboy: Seeing a lot of similarities between Nixon and Obama in what's reported here....not a good way to start things off.

You sound... concerned.

I hear that this release is considered his "Sgt. Pepper's"...

Lyndon also liked to suck about a quart of Cutty Sark a day, plus several cans of Pearl beer, then go riding around drunk on his ass at 120 mph in a Lincoln Continental with a 460 c.i. engine and a 4-barrel, which would top out at around 135 mph.

Funny you never read about that in the papers.

libbynomore2: For those youngin's who know nothing about American history and think Bush was actually America's worst President ever, I present Lyndon Johnson!

Next on the list? Jimma Carter!

Crack a farking history book and do some research muther fukcers!

Civil Rights Act? Yeah, what a bastard.

And that Carter! Tried to prepare us for a future where oil was scarce and expensive! Boy did he fark up!

/Neither were great or even good, but compared to Bush. . .

LBJ proxied his way to a controlling interest in Bell Helicopter using Ladybird as a front.

They were okay in ordinary flight, but the rotor mast would bump and become unstable at high speed during extreme combat maneuvers.

Then they would fall out of the sky and kill people.

He glommed about $25 million off that deal. Figure half of the guys killed in the 'Nam were on his chit, it works out to $860 per dead man.

Nice return on investment.

He betrayed folk when he went electric.

michaeld5 LBJ pic pulling the dog's ears



I came here for that picture and I leave satisfied.

Picture yourself as the prez in a Caddy
With hawt Jackie O. in a pink pill box hat
Suddenly someone is there at the book drop
A man with a marine corps gat...

Man, I remember LBJ handing out reel to reels from the trunk of his car. Got a couple of his bootlegs.
There was a huge underground scene of tape traders. He was real friendly to tapers.

I want to hear the one where, after one of his staffers was arrested for soliciting in a park rest room, he calls J. Edgar Hoover and grills him about "how you identify one of those guys".
He was clearly loving the opportunity to torment old J.
I only heard it once on a talk radio show and have searched for it ever since.

libbynomore2: For those youngin's who know nothing about American history and think Bush was actually America's worst President ever, I present Lyndon Johnson!

Next on the list? Jimma Carter!

Crack a farking history book and do some research muther fukcers!

Ummm... Crack one yourself. America has a history before 1960. Try Warren Harding.

I prefer his Ozzy imitation singing in the shower.

Johnson could have written "War Pigs."