from @TheRubberDuck79
After JFKs assassination, Lyndon Johnson reached out to Jackie Kennedy to “console her”. in this oddly jovial call that was recorded – within a month of her husband’s brain being blown off into her lap – Johnson can be heard telling Jackie he wanted to visit her and “spank her” around Christmas time.
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TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon Johnson: Hello?
Jacqueline Kennedy: Hello?
Lyndon Johnson: Jackie?
Jacqueline Kennedy: Mr President?
Lyndon Johnson: I love you.
Jacqueline Kennedy: Aren’t you sweet. Where are you?
Lyndon Johnson: You just skipped away from this town. I ought to have had you arrested.
Jacqueline Kennedy: But I was so mad at myself!
Lyndon Johnson: Yeah, well, you ought to be mad! You almost made me mad at you, leaving without coming by and hugging me and telling me goodbye!
Jacqueline Kennedy: Yeah, but did you get my note?
Lyndon Johnson: Yes, I did.
Jacqueline Kennedy: I felt so mean and I felt so stupid!
Lyndon Johnson: Well, I miss you, and I’m thinking of you, and I know your Christmas won’t be what it ought to be, but I wish that I could make it happier.
When I got ready to go to home, for my Christmas, the Congress just said they’d spank me and hit me right in the face and wouldn’t let me go – and that’s what I’m going to do you, next time if you don’t tell me goodbye!
Jacqueline Kennedy: Oh, listen, as soon as you get back, I’ll come and get a vitamin B shot from Dr Travail.
Lyndon Johnson: Won’t you do that?
Jacqueline Kennedy: Yeah.
Lyndon Johnson: Won’t you do that?
Jacqueline Kennedy: Yeah.
Lyndon Johnson: Thank you, Honey. Bye.