THE NUT DOESN'T FALL FAR FROM THE NUT-TREE: SCOTT MCCLELLAN'S FATHER WROTE A BOOK TOO: HOW LBJ ASSASSINATED JFK

ADVANCE INDIANA:

There's an old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Scott's and Mark's mother is Carole Keeton Strayhorn, a former Austin mayor and Texas Comptroller.

The thrice married Strayhorn bucked the Republican Party in 2006 and ran for governor as an independent.

McClellan's father, Barr McClellan, is even more intriguing. Barr worked for Ed Clark's law firm in Austin, the firm of former President Lyndon Johnson, where he was supposedly afforded access to the secrets of the Johnson political machine.

He left Clark's firm over a client dispute and later left the practice of law after a disciplinary complaint was filed against him concerning litigation against a bank, which he claimed called in an outstanding loan he had with the bank in an effort to bankrupt his law practice.

In 2003, long after the deaths of Johnson, Clark and the rest of the gang, McClellan wrote a book, "Blood Money & Power", in which he lays out a conspiracy theory of how Johnson and Clark had President John F. Kennedy assassinated as well as other people who got in their way.

SCOTT AND HIS POP SEEM TO LIKE WRITING BOOKS TO OBSCURE THEIR OWN FAILURES...