how can that creepy
guy be a hero to you
all in big trouble
Commenting on the ’60s and Lyndon Johnson, Doris Kearns Godwin writes in her book on LBJ, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, that:
“How in the hell can that creepy guy be a hero to you?” Johnson asked me after we saw The Graduate in the movie theater on his ranch.
“All I needed was to see ten minutes of that guy, floating like a big lump in a pool, moving like an elephant in that woman’s bed, riding up and down the California coast polluting the atmosphere, to know that I wouldn’t trust him for one minute with anything that really mattered to me.
And if that’s an example of what love seems like to your generation, then we’re all in big trouble.
All they did was to scream and yell at each other before getting to the altar.
Then after it was over they sat on the bus like dumb mutes with absolutely nothing to say to one another.
Don’t know why but I never imagined LBJ watching The Graduate.
Now that I know, I am not one bit surprised by his reaction.
The scary part, now in my 60s, I am not sure that I don’t disagree.
What was the quote sometimes attached to Mr. Churchill?
To be 25 and not be a liberal is to have no heart.
To be 50 and not be a conservative is to have no brain.
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