Posted on 08/23/2009 9:53:00 PM PDT by kingattax
When Lyndon Baines Johnson was a young congressman, he saved 42 Jews from the Nazis. Indirect evidence shows that he rescued another 400 Jews, including the famed orchestra conductor Erich Leinsdorf. While Johnson didn't risk his life to save Jews, as European non-Jews did, there are those who believe that he should be honored in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem's Holocaust Memorial Museum, for being what the Israelis call a Righteous Gentile.
After the 1967 Arab-Israel Six Day War, when he was President, he met with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey. Mr. Kosygin asked him why America supported Israel against the Arab world with all its population and with all its oil resources. LBJ replied: "Because we think it's right." The Russian leader shook his head in disbelief.
In June 2009, in a speech in Cairo, President Barack Obama announced a historic American tilt toward the Arab and Muslim worlds. It is too early to tell if he, unlike his predecessors, believes in what has been known as the special relationship between America and Israel, However, most of his fellow Americans still believe in it. Not only did they rejoice when President Harry Truman made the United States the first country in the world to recognize Israeli independence in May 1948, but they allowed both Republican and Democratic administrations to put their tax dollars where their feelings are.
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I wish obama was a democrat. Like JFK on taxes, LBJ on Israel and FDR on ridding the world of fascism.
LBJ should be buried on the ranch along the Perdanales River in Texas..... under about 4 feet of cow patties and with prickly pear cactus surrounding his grave site.
He was a major embarrasment to Texas and did not serve the USA well as VP or Prez. His decisions were poor during the VN war, and his civil rights and welfare decisions decades ago contributed heavily to why we are now experiencing severe financial problems. ...The man was a POS!
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LBJ saved lives during the holocaust
When Lyndon Baines Johnson was a young congressman, he saved 42 Jews from the Nazis. Indirect evidence shows that he rescued another 400 Jews, including the famed orchestra conductor Erich Leinsdorf. While Johnson didn't risk his life to save Jews, as European non-Jews did, there are those who believe that he should be honored in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem's Holocaust Memorial Museum, for being what the Israelis call a Righteous Gentile. After the 1967 Arab-Israel Six Day War, when he was President, he met with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey. Mr. Kosygin asked him why America supported Israel against the Arab world with all its population and with all its oil resources. LBJ replied: "Because we think it's right." The Russian leader shook his head in disbelief.
Good article.
US Jews need to remember what good friends Christian Zionists have been.
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