Actually, that was him trolling for (more) freebies. They had given him some trousers as a gift, and he wanted more of them. He was pretty good at getting "gifts" from people and businesses.
Did you know that he graduated from a rural teacher's college and taught migrant workers kids when he got out of school? Dan Sent from my iPad > On Aug 28, 2015, at 9:23 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Search out the audio of him calling his tailor to get some new trousers made. > > --R > > > >> On 8/27/15 6:24 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> While it’s a huge amount of reading, I highly recommend Robert Caro’s >> biography (4-5 books) on Lyndon Johnson. If you only read one of them, read >> the latest (4th) book, “The Passage of Power”. >> >> I never really thought that much about LBJ, despite having a keen interest >> in the politics of the 1960s, but this book goes well into him as an >> individual and how he struggled with Kennedy’s legacy as well as the >> assumption of the presidency. While there’s no doubt he was the epitome of >> the “good old Texas boy” and certainly had some questionable political >> activities, as an individual he was actually a pretty good guy who truly >> wanted the poor and underprivileged to be successful. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Lyndon_Johnson >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Lyndon_Johnson> >> >> Dan >> >> >> >>> On Aug 27, 2015, at 6:14 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> clay wrote: >>>> ...not partial to LBJ or JFK. >>> JFK - I heard a non-progressive person speaking postively about tax >>> cuts that JFK put in to place. Further, the person recommended the >>> non-progressive political side adopt JFK since the progressive politic >>> has abandoned that name and heritage. I know nothing of JFK tax cuts >>> - I will need to go find a summary of that - sounds interesting. >>> mao >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
