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Apparently Lyndon B. Johnson Had A Huge "Johnson"

And he wasn't afraid to show it.

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Apparently Lyndon B. Johnson Had A Huge "Johnson"
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We're pretty sure that 99 percent of a politician's success lies in his or her ability to hide his or her true personality from the public. We all have personal failures and weaknesses, but a president will work so hard at crafting a specific public persona that we're shocked every time one gets caught getting blown by an intern.

With that in mind, here are some of the stranger facts about American presidents that almost never get mentioned in history class.

Presidents are high profile people with high profile secrets, so it’s no wonder they would go to great lengths to hide them. Except for Lyndon B. Johnson. He seemed to let it all hang loose, literally. But more on that later.

He was the 36th Vice President of the United States, succeeding John F. Kennedy after his assassination in 1963. Then, in 1964 he won the election in a landslide victory over Robert Goldwater. LBJ also famously escalated the Vietnam dispute making him extremely unpopular with many Americans. However there have been many reports of the late President being favored by the female gender.

Johnson was always competing with JFK and his womanizing ways, seeking to”beat” him. His male colleagues referred to him as a harem specifically because he would make passes at secretaries, and it was known that any who accepted would be promoted to private secretary *wink wink.*

Johnson was actually notorious for legitimately unzipping pants and taking out his member, often waving it around or placing it on his desk. It is reported that he specifically made demands to have a jet installed in the White House shower to aim and spray water directly at his own Johnson.

LBJ was also well known for taking his member, which he ever so affectionately nicknamed “Jumbo,” and waving it around. He was also said to piss in public whenever he felt like it, and if anyone dared confront him, he would whip good ol’ Jumbo out and around and challenge whomever with "Have you seen anything bigger than this?"

Now we don’t really have any way of knowing for sure that “Jumbo” is as big as LBJ said, but there is one bit of evidence that points to his accuracy.

In a phone call between himself and his tailor, Joe Haggar, Johnson said:

LBJ: So leave me at least two and a half, three inches in the back where I can let them out or take them up. And make these a half an inch bigger in the waist. And make the pockets at least an inch longer, my money, my knife, everything falls out - wait just a minute.

Operator: Would you hold on a minute please?

[ conversation on hold for two minutes]

LBJ: Now the pockets, when you sit down, everything falls out, your money, your knife, everything, so I need at least another inch in the pockets. And another thing - the crotch, down where your nuts hang - is always a little too tight, so when you make them up, give me an inch that I can let out there, uh because they cut me, it's just like riding a wire fence. These are almost, these are the best I've had anywhere in the United States,

JH: Fine.

LBJ: But, uh when I gain a little weight they cut me under there. So, leave me, you never do have much of margin there. See if you can't leave me an inch from where the zipper (burps) ends, round, under my, back to my bunghole, so I can let it out there if I need to.


So there you have it. I bet they didn’t teach you that in history class!
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