Reply #35: LBJ "was not an evil person"?? I'm a life-long Democrat, and I know... [View All]

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...for a fact that "Landslide" Lyndon was know as an extremely shady politician, even by Texas political standards. While in Congress, he was known as the "bagman" for his tendency to deliver cash to his fellow Congressmen in exchange for votes.

There were also a number of scandals swirling around LBJ when he was VP. Do some research on Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes and their connections to LBJ. It is extremely doubtful that LBJ would have been on a second ticket with JFK, had their been no assassination.

I also know that LBJ was intimately involved in getting us into Vietnam. Do some research on NSAM 263 signed by JFK on October 26, 1963, and NSAM 273 signed by LBJ on November 26, 1963. It should bother you that LBJ escalated our involvement in Vietnam within four days of JFK's death.

Speaking of the Tonkin Gulf, maybe you ought to read what the late Admiral Stockdale, Ross Perot's former VP candidate, had to say about personally shooting up empty ocean in the Tonkin Gulf. Do a search on Stckdale and Tonkin Gulf. I'll give you the short answer...there were no North Vietnamese patrol boats at that location in the Tonkin Gulf.

And based on my personal 40-year research of the assassination of JFK, if LBJ wasn't involved in some way, I would be greatly surprised. JFK and LBJ had a major argument the night before the Dallas motorcade on the seating arrangements. LBJ wanted his political supporter, Governor John Connally, to ride with him in exchange for Senator Yarborough, JFK's political supporter. JFK stood firm on the seating but conceded a change in the order of the cars in the motorcade. The Secret Service car was moved to a position between JFK's limo and LBJ's limo.

I also point to the closed-door meeting that LBJ attended the night before the assassination with Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, three former CIA executives (think Bay of Pigs), some current CIA officials, some military brass, and some top Big Oil officials. LBJ later confided to his current mistress, Madeleine Brown, that they wouldn't have to worry about JFK anymore. I also point to his hand-picked appointments to the Warren Commission and the job they did to pin the crime on a so-called "lone-nut gunman".

Look, the only reason LBJ was willing to push through the Civil Rights Act, which was JFK's pet project in the first place, was because he knew that minorities would be carrying the brunt of the war in Vietnam. He needed something to offset the casualties that minorites were going to suffer. In fact, all of his domestic programs were designed to offset or soften the blow of Vietnam.

Oh, as to those so-called "LBJ tapes", LBJ was the one who had the system installed. He knew that at some point in time in the future historians would want to examine his role in a number of different situations. It was not beyond LBJ to make comments while on tape that would appear to exonerate him from blame on JFK, Vietnam, and a number of other issues. The man was crafty, to say the least.