A book…ATexan Looks at LBJ came out in the late 60s (I think) claiming lbj was involved. The rayburn/lbj clique had accounted for enough bodies to foster belief (precursor to the next door clintons) so a lot of us had little problem believing it. It was a foregone conclusion lbj would not be on the 64 ticket as he had done all for the kennedy mob that he could
A book…ATexan Looks at LBJ came out in the late 60s (I think) claiming lbj was involved. The rayburn/lbj clique had accounted for enough bodies to foster belief (precursor to the next door clintons) so a lot of us had little problem believing it. It was a foregone conclusion lbj would not be on the 64 ticket as he had done all for the kennedy mob that he could
Brings up the word collusion. The rayburn/lbj bunch were new dealers i.e. fdr holdovers. And fdr built the predecessor of the cia (oss) with a cadre of ivy league libs. Birds of a feather
I remember a small blurb in the paper, buried on page 5 or so in mid-63, which said Kennedy was considering replacing LBJ as vp. There was still plenty of time to do that in November, 1963.
To clarify…l.b.j. was necessary to provide the rayburn apparatus necessary to give them Texas and steal that election. That ended any usefulness he provided j.f.k.s daddy and his cadre who was calling all the shots. Just like #44, j.f.k. was also a puppet in this case one whose strings were pulled by daddy et al.
A book…ATexan Looks at LBJ came out in the late 60s (I think) claiming lbj was involved. The rayburn/lbj clique had accounted for enough bodies to foster belief (precursor to the next door clintons) so a lot of us had little problem believing it. It was a foregone conclusion lbj would not be on the 64 ticket as he had done all for the kennedy mob that he could
It was not a one man show! Dulles, J Edgar Hoover and LBJ all had axes to grind.
Brings up the word collusion. The rayburn/lbj bunch were new dealers i.e. fdr holdovers. And fdr built the predecessor of the cia (oss) with a cadre of ivy league libs. Birds of a feather
My bad. Should have sail progs
I remember a small blurb in the paper, buried on page 5 or so in mid-63, which said Kennedy was considering replacing LBJ as vp. There was still plenty of time to do that in November, 1963.
Why would Kennedy have wanted to replace LBJ?
Did not like him, had no further use. And like44, expect most decisions made then by his daddy appointed keepers while he played playboy.
You must mean the reverse.
To clarify…l.b.j. was necessary to provide the rayburn apparatus necessary to give them Texas and steal that election. That ended any usefulness he provided j.f.k.s daddy and his cadre who was calling all the shots. Just like #44, j.f.k. was also a puppet in this case one whose strings were pulled by daddy et al.
Also I heard LBJ blackmailed himself onto the ticket. They never got along and he was kept out of the loop.
I thought LBJ did not run again because of the public dissatisfaction with the Vietnam war.
Sure, but that was later.
Plus he had already gotten rich off of that “war”.
Forgot his name. His wife was mayor of Austin and two bright sons were in DC posts. One ahead of the FDA.