Political Insult Quotes
The President had told the library director that during his administrations he had received some very mean letters and perhaps one of two of them should be exhibited in the Presidential Library. The library staff looked through the letters and came up with one which Middleton then showed to LBJ.
She was referring to Congressman Randy Duke Cunningham who was not only gross, insulting, and violated all rules of decorum in the House Debates but turned out to be the most corrupt Congressman in American history. The answer was, “Yes”. The rules require that the term of address “gentleman” or “gentlewoman” is used for whenever referring to any other member, even when as in the case of Cunningham, the member is not only not a gentleman but was a traitor to the nation and totally dishonest. In this case, “The Gentleman went to jail.”