One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
Your scribe has dined with four heads of state…two at the White House in Washington DC and two at the Lodge, the Prime Ministerial residence in Canberra, Australia’s capital city.
As a young fellow, I will always remember the gracious and polite Lyndon Baines Johnson and the wonderful First lady, Lady Bird Johnson at a formal diplomatic function. LBJ was a mountain of a man and through the most unfortunate of circumstances he was thrown in to high office because of John Kennedy’s assassination to become the 36th President of the United States. I remember his quiet demeanour and the attention he gave to every word you said as if he truly gave a damn about what a young fellow from Australia had to say. LBJ was one of the great presidents of the 20th Century and his time will come in the history books.
On the other hand my experience with Richard Nixon was that of a man preoccupied with what eventually surfaced as the Watergate Affair….he was tired and looked a defeated man but he was also an imposing and impressive man to meet…..You don’t get to those positions by being a light weight with a short memory I guess.
When JFK was seeking a Vice Presidential running mate in the 1960 Presidential elections against Richard Nixon, he was purported to have said…” We need Texas…we need LBJ; I’d rather have LBJ pissing out of the tent than pissing in”!!!!!
Where was I? Yes cuff links!......Dining in high places has its material rewards and those rewards are “booty”. Unfortunately I was too young to qualify for the White House Presidential cuff links that are presented to visiting dignitaries and constituents visiting the White House. At the Lodge on the other hand they do dish out cuff links to the male attendees of official soirees and functions.
Today’s links are the official coat of arms for the Parliament of Australia. They are presented in a lovely green felt box and have been worn with pride by at official Government functions or on a day like today to celebrate the great tradition of democracy in Australia…..so here’s a cheerio to the faceless men that make our democratic world so interesting here in Australia.
Today’s links are worn with a Brooks Brothers cotton shirt and a blue pure silk Gowings neck tie.
Til Later
ONWARD
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
Your scribe has dined with four heads of state…two at the White House in Washington DC and two at the Lodge, the Prime Ministerial residence in Canberra, Australia’s capital city.
As a young fellow, I will always remember the gracious and polite Lyndon Baines Johnson and the wonderful First lady, Lady Bird Johnson at a formal diplomatic function. LBJ was a mountain of a man and through the most unfortunate of circumstances he was thrown in to high office because of John Kennedy’s assassination to become the 36th President of the United States. I remember his quiet demeanour and the attention he gave to every word you said as if he truly gave a damn about what a young fellow from Australia had to say. LBJ was one of the great presidents of the 20th Century and his time will come in the history books.
On the other hand my experience with Richard Nixon was that of a man preoccupied with what eventually surfaced as the Watergate Affair….he was tired and looked a defeated man but he was also an imposing and impressive man to meet…..You don’t get to those positions by being a light weight with a short memory I guess.
When JFK was seeking a Vice Presidential running mate in the 1960 Presidential elections against Richard Nixon, he was purported to have said…” We need Texas…we need LBJ; I’d rather have LBJ pissing out of the tent than pissing in”!!!!!
Where was I? Yes cuff links!......Dining in high places has its material rewards and those rewards are “booty”. Unfortunately I was too young to qualify for the White House Presidential cuff links that are presented to visiting dignitaries and constituents visiting the White House. At the Lodge on the other hand they do dish out cuff links to the male attendees of official soirees and functions.
Today’s links are the official coat of arms for the Parliament of Australia. They are presented in a lovely green felt box and have been worn with pride by at official Government functions or on a day like today to celebrate the great tradition of democracy in Australia…..so here’s a cheerio to the faceless men that make our democratic world so interesting here in Australia.
Today’s links are worn with a Brooks Brothers cotton shirt and a blue pure silk Gowings neck tie.
Til Later
ONWARD
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