I never knew LBJ was so crass....

[MADem]

126. I am not going to 'judge' Doris, or hold her to a standard that wasn't operative at the time

she was working in the WH and for LBJ...the fact of the matter is, this sort of thing went on a lot; I am uncomfortable with the potentially coercive nature of any "imbalanced" relationship, but we're talking about adults well beyond the age of consent, here, in a different time and place, with the "sexual revolution" exploding all around them. Lady Bird was no moron, but I don't think she was into nuanced, deep conversations about the minutiae of political history. Doris was, and she was young and cute, to boot. And LBJ was acutely aware of his place in history, aside from being a horn dog with a wandering eye, and Doris most certainly had and has an historian's mind.

I did think her rather surprisingly robust defense of Paula Broadwell (and I personally think that one has to suspend all judgment to actually believe that affair started AFTER Petraeus packed his uniform away) was, as the Mentalist viewers say, a "Tell."

Of course, if she doesn't want to give us the details, she won't. She might be thinking of his kids and grandkids....sort of like the mysterious Ms. Jennifer Fitzgerald, Poppy Bush's "other woman." Jennifer must be terribly loyal, terribly rich, well kept, or all three. She could make a fortune with one tell-all tome!