[net.politics] Another LBJohnson

iannucci@sjuvax.UUCP (iannucci) (05/06/85)

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        I am not normally one to know such esoteria, but I came across this 
in a reading for a History exam. It is from "Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam"
by Larry King, American Heritage, 1976. Reprinted without permission.

     "After a cabinet meeting in 1967 several staff aides and at least one 
cabinet member - Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior - remained behind 
for informal discussions; soon LBJ was waving his arms and fulminating about
his war.  Who the hell was Ho Chi Minh, anyway, that he thought he could
push America around?  Then the President did an astonishing thing; he unzipped
his trousers, dangled a given appendage, and asked his shocked associates:
"Has Ho Chi Minh got anything like that?"

       Incidentally, on the final, this question appeared: "Can we compare
Lyndon Johnson to Ho Chi Minh? a). the evidence is no longer available b).
yes c). maybe  :^) 

-- 
If I could walk THAT way... 

Dave Iannucci @ St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia [40 00' N 75 15' W]
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