Posted on 10/15/2009 5:38:09 PM PDT by highlander_UW
Not the first one... my father was pleased to own “Starling of the White House.”
Thank you to moderator for correcting the title, much appreciated.
As if I didn't dislike Al Gore enough already.
Really Al. We all know that no one from your clan has the integrity or courage to be in the Secret Service. Not to mention none of you have the ability to make it past the battery of psychological exams.
Don’t know about the serial part, or HOW serial, but there was a pretty well-known story shortly after LBJ became president, that Ladybird caught him doing the hucklebuck with a female staffer in the White House......IN THE ACT!
That he was “insane” or anywhere near it is brand new information.
I had a friend whose brother-in-law as a SS agent on the Clinton detail and he confirmed that as well. Actually, he was a devout Christian and asked to be removed from their detail because of the philandering on the part of both.
I know a Capitol Cop and he said Clinton was pleasant to everyone but especially to women. But there was a handler to keep women away. Otherwise, Clinton was a REALLY smart redneck frat boy.
It's quite true. LBJ was probably the most venal and base president we ever had.
Unlike JFK, he was not a man who sought "conquests". He didn't want to have to work for it. One of his favorite "companions" was his ranch foreman's wife.
My father was a member of the presidential aircrew on Air Force One during the Carter and Reagan administrations. I heard many stories about what a fake Carter was and how rude Roslyn was to the stewards. They referred to these airmen as “the help”. The Carter’s had absolutely no class. Reagan was a gentleman and was very respectful to the crew. The crew and their families were invited to the White House several times under Reagan. Never under Carter. Oh, yeah. The thing about the empty bags is true.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is blind??? Or maybe LBJ was blind. Was he a drinker? Blind drunk maybe.
Bump....
In August I posted the original thread about this then upcoming book. The best and most revealing items about the presidents were:
Lyndon Johnson
“Johnson would come on the plane and the minute he got out of sight of the crowds, he would stand in the doorway and grin from ear to ear and say, ‘You dumb sons of bitches. I piss on all of you,’ “ recalls Robert M. MacMillan, an Air Force One steward.
Jimmy Carter
At a press conference, Carter denied reports that White House aides had to ask him for permission to use the tennis courts. In fact, even when he was traveling on Air Force One, Carter insisted that aides ask him for permission.
Charles Palmer, chief of the Air Force One stewards, said Carter seemed to relish the power. At times, Carter would delay his response, smugly saying, “I’ll let them know,” Palmer says. “Other times he would look at me and smile and say, ‘Tell them yes.’ I felt that he felt it was a big deal.”
Ronald Reagan
When the news broke that Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart was having an affair with Donna Rice, ... an aide blocked the closing elevator doors to tell Reagan about Hart.
“Boys will be boys,” Reagan said, according to former agent Ted Hresko.
When the door of the elevator shut, Reagan said to Hresko, “But boys will not be president.”
Power, on its own, is, and has been, an aphrodesiac for millenia. Nothing new there. Not surprising at all...
the infowarrior
If they wrote the stuff after the President passed away, people might say the agent was making it up and that it couldn’t be refuted because the former President was deceased.
I think if the President knows that how they behave and treat others could come out at any time, it might be a way of keeping them humble and decent since they are public servant, after all.
Operative words here are 'on the campaign trail'. Has he asked them to dinner at the WH?
I only stumbled across an article about the book. I haven't read it but perhaps that's addressed in the book, I don't really know.
I read it about 2 weeks ago. Quick read and pretty interesting. Reagan, George HW Bush and W are depicted as we would expect...true gentlemen and considerate. Laura apeears to be the one most loved by all. Carter, LBJ, Roslynn, Hil and Al Gore creeps all and Nancy Reagan was not a favorite.
I think there will be more to learn about the O’s in a few years. It appears that they are on their best behavior right now.
I found this in a Drudge article awhile back;
In the book, “In The President’s Secret Service”
It says that Michelle is very kind and appreciative of
the Secret Service agents that protect them.
okay.
I know most here won’t like reading that, but I believe in the truth.
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