LBJ Buys Pants
by Andrew Loewen on January 21, 2011One comment
It is the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-four. The Vietnam War is escalating with the number of US “military advisors” having tripled and official troops soon to be deployed. In November, President Lyndon B Johnson declared that “the contest” with “the Communist conspiracy” must “be joined with strength and determination.”
And now it is August, just days after the second of the alleged Gulf of Tonkin incidents, and President Lyndon B Johnson sits in the Oval Office. If LBJ is going to whup the Vietcong, he is going to need six pairs of summer slacks from Haggar, this time with plenty of room for his “nuts” and his “bunghole.” Otherwise it feels like…. well, let the POTUS tell it himself:
via Louis Proyect
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