For the most part, fits the stereotypes we would guess about the Presidents. With the exception of LBJ being a serial adulterer. Did they find blind women or something?
Maybe politicians are more transparent than they think they are. As for LBJ, they say power is quite an aphrodisiac...as I recall, Kissinger married a very attractive woman back in his heyday, and he was never attractive at his best.
rumor is.......well, ........you know how they say everything is bigger in Texas?
Brings to mind the Tommy Chong quote to explain how the stunning Jill St. John was dating Henry Kissinger:
"Chicks dig power."
I read in an LBJ bio - may have been the Dallek book - where LBJ was very sensitive about being compared to JFK as to who was most skilled at womanizing. The quote from LBJ was something like, "Hell I got more tail by accident than Kennedy did on purpose."
Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote an - ahem - intimate biography of LBJ. Lady Bird Johnson was once asked about his serial philandering and said that LBJ loved everybody in the whole world and 50% were women.
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.
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.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is blind??? Or maybe LBJ was blind. Was he a drinker? Blind drunk maybe.
Power, on its own, is, and has been, an aphrodesiac for millenia. Nothing new there. Not surprising at all...
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