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In reply to the discussion: I never knew LBJ was so crass.... [View all]Paladin
(28,243 posts)62. If Joachim Joesten Is Your Idea Of A Creditable Source.....
...then you have more problematic issues than I have the time or inclination to address. Best wishes to you, out there in Conspiracyville.....
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Hard to believe, 'knowing' her (just having observed,) but anything's possible.
elleng
Jan 2013
#116
I am not going to 'judge' Doris, or hold her to a standard that wasn't operative at the time
MADem
Jan 2013
#126
Just my personal opinion, but LBJ pushed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill because he knew....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#50
"I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in." LBJ on Hoover. Crass?
panzerfaust
Jan 2013
#40
Robert Caro is working on Volume 5 of an incredible biography of LBJ...
Sekhmets Daughter
Jan 2013
#52
We had a presence since the Eisenhower administration, but Johnson substantially escalated the war
Hippo_Tron
Jan 2013
#106
LBJ did what the Kennedy's talked about, but NEVER did or were going to do-Civil rights
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#26
and he was a better President and man than Thomas Jefferson was. By far.
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#43
Read the 1964 book entitled, "A Texan Looks at Lyndon", by J. Evetts Haley....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#23
Thank you. Just placed my order for that book on Amazon based on your post.
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2013
#31
If you can point out a few Haley's facts they you believe are fabrications,....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#49
Ah! Now we get to the true point of your angst! Good luck to you as well in a world...
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#64
Disagree 100% on "right wing hatchet job". See my earlier responses in this thread....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#83
LBJ never pushed legislation unless he could personally or politically benefit from doing so.....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#88
Howard Stern has been playing that phone call for years now on his show and goofing on it
stultusporcos
Jan 2013
#24
Maybe you should read more books about LBJ other than those intended to cast LBJ....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#89
I've noticed that when some posters get backed into a corner, or can't respond with....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#109
He used to hold "meetings" with staffers while he was sitting on the crapper.
yellowcanine
Jan 2013
#35
He probably had insufficient roughage in his diet--a bit more might have helped his heart, too.
MADem
Jan 2013
#121
He once told the press corps, "I've got to go now boys. I need to remind Hubert (VP Humphrey) ...
11 Bravo
Jan 2013
#39
Yes he was I read once he even had talks with people while in was sitting on the toilet.
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#51
Same here. Some said how unutterably low-class, but one historian pointed out that kings...
Hekate
Jan 2013
#57
Did he grow up on a farm, do you know? He might have grown up with out houses and
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#58
I think most of the bad history re LBJ is the "elite" revulsion to rural/Southern habits.
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#102
I got news for you that is a world wide attitude. Rural farm areas have terrible attitudes about
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2013
#124
I am not crass, but there have been times when I have let out an uncontrollable
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#114
Exactly. We can control some things with diet. I have been in meetings after having a salad or
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#131
LBJ was a complicated man; the best and most thorough biography of him is Caro's.
northoftheborder
Jan 2013
#128