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Joey
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Re: The New and Improved Joey? thread
Reply #4642 - Jan 16th, 2011 at 7:14pm
" On entering the office , " Sam Shaffer wrote , " one was immediately confronted " by an extremely well - lit , fully life- size portrait of its occupant , hung above its marble fireplace . The artist had portrayed Johnson leaning against a bookcase , but he had captured at least some of the piercing quality in Johnson's eyes : " That huge picture of Lyndon looking squarely in the visitor's eye first thing on entering Lyndon's office is a sure irritant , " John Steele reported in a memo to his editors at TIME . And it was not only Lyndon Johnson's portrait that was well lit . High above the desk , concealed in the chandelier , two spotlights had been placed , focused so that as the man himself sat at the desk , they cast on him what one reporter called ' an impressive nimbus of golden light . " In a corner of the immense room he had ordered high walls of polished mahogany built , and behind them was a bathroom -- a Johnsonian bathroom ( a ' monument of a toilet ' James Reston called it ) used as Johnson used bathrooms : soon secretaries , assistants , and senators were having to take dictation from him or discuss issues with him as he sat before them on the toilet . "  !!!!
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