Bladder Diplomacy

For those of you who just can't read enough about Bush's bathroom note, Michael Binyon has written a wide-ranging history of the politics of potty breaks.

Comments

[drf]

Jesse:

your comments remind me of Milo and Opus discussing something Opus had just seen on TV:
"more cross section photos of the president's prostate?"

...

"you know for my money, you can't get too much of that".

the goofy ol days of Bloom County...

and was just at yer alma mater. Michigan campus is pretty cool. The law library is amazing. cool stuff. and since they played a creampuff, the maize and bloooo won, for a change. 🙂

[Jeff P.]

Do I care about an adult's bladder activity?

That Depends...

[Stevo Darkly]

Didn't I once read of either a European ruler, or maybe a well-known US politician (possibly even a president) who used to hold meetings while he was taking a dump?

[drf]

Stevo:

would that be Grover Cleveland, and that's the origin of the term "cleveland steamer"...

or maybe not......

[kelley]

The president who held meetings in the bathroom was LBJ.

A quote from http://tafkac.org/politics/lbj_penis.html

Few Presidents have permitted the kind of intimacy between themselves and their staffs that Johnson encouraged. When he had to go to the bathroom in the middle of a conversation, it was not unusual for him to move the discussion there. Johnson seemed delighted as he told me of "one of the delicate Kennedyites who came into the bathroom with me and then found it utterly impossible to look at me while I sat there on the toilet. You'd think he had never seen those parts of the body before.?

[Bobby Kennedy]

It's um, not the um, smell, Mr President, it's the um, burning in my eyes!