[Steely Tom]

An important — perhaps pivotal — moment in history, and a record of the lengths one Democrat went to win election. The man he defeated, Coke Stevenson, was also a Democrat.

Mr. Stevenson switched to the Republican Party in 1949, after he retired from politics.

[Steely Tom]

Interestingly, I note that the title of the YouTube video is the same as the title I gave to this thread, but YouTube auto-supplies the title in the link as simply “Means of Ascent.” Accident? You be the judge.

[ClearCase_guy]

I read a good chunk of Caro’s biography. I remember the impression that Caro thought Johnson was very sleazy. But also a good thing for America because Liberal ideas are awesome.

But it’s been years and I may misremember.

[gundog]

This gives me hope that the Deep State subterfuge of 2020 will be revealed. Long after it does any good.

[SES1066]

I find the the LEFT is very willing to admit ‘mistakes’ and ‘shenanigans’ in the past BUT they will swear that nothing of the such besmirches their actions in the recent past or now! Such a flexible mindset that goes with LBJ and his younger friend Harry Reid.

[oh8eleven]

Caro also wrote, "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York." Long, but still an excellent read ...

Originally published: 1974
Pages: 1,336

[ryderann]

Who else remembers Johnson’s big buddy Billie Sol Estes, fraudster extradrainaire. The big difference between then and now is that Estes was prosecuted, convicted, imprisoned. Today, the crooked pals and families of the leftist politicians don’t even get a second look.

[Menehune56]

Jim Wells County, Texas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Wells_County,_Texas

[jmaroneps37]

Like all other Democrat/ Communist Ole Long Ears Johnson was. Crook a Thug and a Bigot.

[Terry L Smith]

good ol’ LBJ ... the man, as president, ran the whole Vietnam War himself.

the man who foisted his ‘great society’ welfare program on the whole darn country.

[Savage Beast]

"A bottomless capacity for deceit, deception"

But that describes Washington in general...

In fact, it was Donald Trump's vow, "The party's over; I'm going to clean up Washington," that gave America 6 years of unrest, lies, turmoil, and attempts to destroy Trump and his family at all costs!

The magnitude of the resolve to destroy Trump and his family is directly proportional to the magnitude of the corruption.

As Mike Huckabee said, "When you throw a rock over a fence, it's the hit dog that hollers," and you can tell by the amount of hollering which dogs got hit the hardest!

[ml/nj]

Robert Caro is the author of an enormously detailed history of the life and career of Lyndon Johnson.

Caro left some stuff out.

ML/NJ

[fortes fortuna juvat]

“The Man Who Killed Kennedy”

[Pelham]

bookmark

[erlayman]

“Just get me some names off the gravestones...they would have voted for me if they could...”lol

[TChad]

"Well that's simple, Robert… I lied under oath."

This should not be the first time I have encountered that quote, but it is.

[Steely Tom]

I've recently been watching a series of YT videos that do an incredibly deep dive into details of the JFK assassination that I've never heard of. I don't know whether to take them seriously or not, but the guy on the right of the screen (who's name is Mark Groubert) seems to be extremely knowledgeable about the persons and events surrounding the assassination itself.

Here's a link to one of the videos: Who is Ruth Paine? How was she involved with Lee Harvey Oswald and JFK?.

If you click on the name of the YT channel ("America's Untold Stories") you can watch many more.

Mark Groubert was involved with making Oliver Stone's movie JFK, in which Jim Garrison is made out to be a hero.

I have to say I've watched everything I can about Jim Garrison, and I believe he actually was a hero.