this mf has spent 45 years writing a biography of Lyndon Johnson and he's still not done
Nobody gives a fuck about LBJ
Oops turns out the vietnam war is kinda complicated
>Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th President of America (1963-1969).Johnson got the job after he helped shoot the previous incumbent in the head. Before press conferences on the White House lawn he made it a habit to piss in the bushes in front of journalists and then wipe his hands on his jacket leading one former bodyguard to opine that "if LBJ hadn't been in the White House he'd have been in a mental institution."His best friend Walt Rostow persuaded him to wade further and further into the Vietnam quagmire. Even Rostow could never understand why Johnson listened to his erroneous advice. Rostow later blamed his connection to the president for losing him a chance to get an ivy league position, instead of which he languished at the University of Texas.When the stress of the job proved too much Johnson sometimes eased the strain by having relations with negro women on his White House Desk. His wife, Claudia Taylor, was an alcoholic.
>>25427514lol I wonder if there is any truth in any of this? Don't want to check. Would be dusappointing to find not.
>>25427399Has he uncovered how much he had to do with killing JFK?
>>25427514Wow, so this is the legend who irreversibly ruined the USA.
>>25427399What a waste of life
>>25427514Johnson is one of the villains of history and Nixon is one of the heroes.
>>25428686Nixon abandoned the gold standard
>>25428684What a rude thing to say.
>>25427405This. Why dedicate your life's work to someone nobody cares about?
>>25428702Every president since Kennedy has been directed by the CIA/Mossad/MI6.But about gold. It has value to the ultra rich and powerful for its electrical and medicinal properties. That's why they've hoarded over the centuries. Money is the root of all evil.
>>25429797>>25427405Let me give you a writing tip: be the only guy doing a long form history of something, not the also ran tard forced to make young adult digests of WWII.
this mf has spent 15 years writing a biography of Dick Cheney and he's still not done
>>25427514>He early became fabled for a Rabelaisian earthiness, urinating in the parking lot of the House Office Building as the urge took him; if a colleague came into a Capitol bathroom as he was finishing at the urinal there, he would sometimes swing around still holding his member, which he liked to call “Jumbo,” hooting once, “Have you ever seen anything as big as this?,” and shaking it in almost a brandishing manner as he began discoursing about some pending legislation. At the same time, he would oblige aides to take dictation standing in the door of his office bathroom while he went about emptying his bowels, as if in some alpha-male ritual assertion of his primacy. Even on the floors of the House and Senate, he would extravagantly rummage away at his groin, sometimes reaching his hand through a pocket and leaning with half-lifted leg for more thorough access.I believe every word you say.
>>25429803>Every president since Kennedy has been directed by the CIA/Mossad/MI6.Nixon clearly was not which is why they forced him out (Watergate was a Deep State coup).
>>25430291He knew what was up. The powers that be wanted him to preside over the war, their drug experiments, tightening security, and getting off the gold standard etc. He wasn't as bad as they make him out to be, but he was far from a hero. He was their toady like all the rest of them.
>>25427399saw an interview recently where caro just seemed totally fried and out of it. sad that the one aspect of lbj i'm interested in probably won't get covered by him.
>>25427399Maybe he's lazy? I could've done it in 5 years.
