Besides the Black Box that the starched and creased young military man carried, there were always two other items aboard President Lyndon Johnson’s Air Force One: Superior Dairies ice cream from Austin and Lady Bird’s Pedernales River Chili. Of the three, no one on the President’s staff doubted which was most important. If the fateful call came reporting that the sky above the Aleutian islands was darkened with ICBMs heading east, a man eating Hill Country chili might feel a slight advantage as he pulled the trigger. Johnson took his chili every bit as seriously as the Box. Aside from Bobby Kennedy, nothing rated higher on the President’s Wrath Scale than greasy chili. Woe to White House Chef Henry Haller if he had not previously…View Original PostThe post From Mexico With Love appeared first on Texas Monthly.