Listen To Lyndon B. Johnson Order Bespoke Slacks With Care Paid To His ‘Nuts’ + ‘Bunghole’

The year was 1964. The request: new slacks. The client: Lyndon B. Johnson. He rang up the Haggar clothing company to see if he could order some of America’s finest pants. But while LBJ was, unlike his aide Walter Jenkins, a blue-blooded heterosexual, he knew exactly how he liked his trousers to fit his bits.

“The crotch down where your nuts hang is always a little to tight, so when you make ’em up, give me an inch so I can let out there, because they cut me,” he tells Haggar’s rep. “They’re like riding a wire fence. These are the best that I’ve had in the United States, but when I gain a little weight they cut me under there, so leave me … about an inch from where the zipper [burp] ends, back to my bunghole, so I can let it out there if I need to.”

Thank goodness he got those pants, because the last thing America needed was an inseam getting in the way of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.