Where cary grant bought his clothes?

[RWS]

This sounds a bit apocryphal, NJS. I say so in part because I remember a joke popular in and around Washington, D.C., during Lyndon Baines Johnson's administration of the federal government ("LBJ" was notoriously self-centered and arrogant): a businessman hailed a taxi'; when it stopped and the man opened the back door to enter -- there was LBJ! "My God!", exclaimed the businessman. "And don't you forget it", replied the president.

[storeynicholas]

As with most of the best CG stories this bears the marks of apocrypha.
NJS

[Trey]

Gentlemen:

LBJ and clothes is interesting. LBJ loved his initials on clothes. Have you heard his phone recordings? I have, but forget where to find them. There are recordings of LBJ with his tailors.

LBJ has likely not appeared in these halls as a revered sartorialist. Nevertheless, we Loungers would appreciate his observations. We have all had quite frank discussions with our tailors [and they have all had quite frank discussion with us!]. E.g. - There are parts of my body that I will discuss with no one - including my wife, physician, etc.- that I have discussed in great detail with my tailor and that we have addressed accordingly.

There is one great LBJ inadvertent trousers phone recording [and let's face it - our conversations with our tailors about our trousers are the most important conversations we can have with them]. He - in typical LBJ fashion - lambasts his tailor or the maker of his trousers about how they should fit around his bunghole. If you ever have a chance to hear this conversation, you must. It is required listening for Loungers!

Happy thoughts!

Trey

[Trey]

Gentlemen:

The site for LBJ's audio recording of this - it is a classic! - is:

http://tapes.millercenter.virginia.edu/ ... bj_haggar/

Happy thoughts!

Trey

[pvpatty]

Gentlemen:

The site for LBJ's audio recording of this - it is a classic! - is:

http://tapes.millercenter.virginia.edu/ ... bj_haggar/

Happy thoughts!

Trey

I will have to find a downloadable recording of this clip; it is a fascinating historical resource. Perhaps LBJ's belching and vulgarity as evidenced in this clip were a measure of the man? My thanks for the link, Trey.

[storeynicholas]

The things that there are on the internet! This is a powerful advertisment for the retention of monarchy and I am sure that the USA would be welcome back on board.
NJS

[RWS]

. . . . This is a powerful advertisment for the retention of monarchy . . . .

Don't I recall another, more recent telephonic conversation about a tampon?

[storeynicholas]

. . . . This is a powerful advertisment for the retention of monarchy . . . .

Don't I recall another, more recent telephonic conversation about a tampon?

There are two differences, to my mind:
The first is that the President, presumably, knew that his conversation was being routinely recorded (even though he might not have guessed that it would still be titillating us in the next century), whereas the converasation which you mention was overheard, and the second is that the President was in conversation with a comparative stranger, whereas the second conversation was between intimate friends. Moreover, I was thinking more of our present sovereign and how utterly inconceivable such a conversation between her and, say, the late Hardy Amies would have been.
NJS