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Episode: LBJ’s Humor
Description: When most people think of Lyndon Johnson they don’t envision a man with a great sense of humor. He was in power in turbulent times.
When I see his face in my mind I see a man who was troubled, an unsmiling man with furrows in his brow accentuating unrelenting worries. Yet even in those dark moments his humor would surface unexpectedly and lighten his mood. He once said “When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.”
He also said, faceti...