LBJ

 

by Glen L. Bledsoe 

Not many people know that Vietnam war era American President Lyndon Baines Johnson was a comedian before he got into politics. As a young man he developed quite a reputation as a funny man at the Buster Brown Comedy Spot in Richie, Texas (a quality he had to decidedly counter as a politician). In fact, Rodney Dangerfield stole the line "I don't get no respect" from LBJ.