From Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer of U.S. Presidents:
L.B.J. had his amphibious car when he was president. He tricked me and took me in his car one day, and the Secret Service collaborated with him. L.B.J., behind the wheel, warned me, “Be careful, we’re going toward a lake. The brakes aren’t working.” Well, we go into the lake: the car became a boat. Then he got so mad at me because I didn’t get scared. I’d figured, He’s not going to die. And he said, “Don’t you Harvard people have enough sense to be scared?”
From an exit interview she conducted with Obama. Hat tip to Kottke.
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L.B.J., behind the wheel, warned me, “Be careful, we’re going toward a lake. The brakes aren’t working.” Well, we go into the lake: the car became a boat.
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Australia’s Prime Minister of the time had the rather unfortunate slogan “All the way with LBJ.” I tried, and failed, to think of a joke about his demise that wasn’t in appalling taste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt#Disappearance
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a noted plagiarist but her career has not suffered much from it.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2002/01/doris_kearns_goodwin_liar.html