Image via Wikipedia“The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.”
— Lyndon Johnson
Put This On: LBJ Buys Pants from Put This On on Vimeo
Not only did the presidency make every man who occupied it not big enough for its demands, butt [sic] it also made most men not big enough for their pants. In the case of Lyndon Johnson, however, his pants may not have been big enough for his package.
There is little doubt that LBJ lived life large. Extra large. Especially in his pants, as it were.
Bill Clinton always claimed to admire JFK, neither of whom was a stranger to the concept of living life large (in his pants). Big Bill, presumably, still does, on the side, so to speak.
But the above video gives audio-evidence to the intriguing possibility that Big Lyndon may have been the complete package in that
Talk about junk in the trunk ...
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