Hacky stack

We kick off the week with some fun little items that deserve a fun little headline

Over the past few days, I have been collecting one newsletter item after another, neither of them requiring anything profound but all of them worth sharing on this weird, wacky place we call Slayed by Voices.

So let’s dig in …

LBJ, Loggia and Hackman

Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC

LBJ with Texas Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby, Austin, fifty years ago this week, six days before Johnson died:

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss on Friday tweeted a photo of Lyndon Baines Johnson with Texas lieutenant governor Bill Hobby. The significance: It was 50 years ago this week that the photo was taken, and it was six days before LBJ died on January 22, 1973 at age 64.

But I took one look at the photo and thought, Johnson looks exactly like a Hollywood actor. At first, I couldn’t place it, but then I came up with either Gene Hackman or Robert Loggia.

I got a few replies as well as some ideas, but to be honest, I don’t think a single suggestion was any better than mine. In fact, friend and TV critic Alan Sepinwall of

What's Alan Watching?

gave me some support.

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall

@jonweisman Oh, it's 1000 percent Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum

Maybe only 999 percent, but not bad, I say.