Lyndon and Lady Bird made a fortune on the Vietnam escalation. LBJ on shipping investments, and Lady Bird on Huey transmissions. With both investments awarded lucrative govt contracts. I’m sure sure other politicians followed suit.
Hands off insider trading and now insurance exemptions are paying/benefiting legislators handsomely, for decades!
I remember driving thru Texas to visit my grandma as a kid, and my family laughing at billboards that read, “eat Texas beef, not LBJ baloney”.
“... Lady Bird on Huey transmissions.”
My unit in the 4th Div. was involved in upgrading Huey ‘D’ models to ‘H’ models in 1967. We had civilians from a company owned by Lady Bird working right alongside us. Of course, they were paid a lot better than we were and had much better living conditions!
BTW, if anyone remembers the name of that company, could you please let me know. My memory is not what it used to be.