Posted on 04/01/2023 9:17:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’m sure you’ve heard people saying this before. Perhaps you’ve even said it yourself. ‘Those Democrats stole the election.’ And in this case, you’d be correct, but it’s probably not the election you’re thinking about. The Associated Press has an interesting walk down memory lane this week discovered in a set of tapes that were donated to the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum last summer. On the tapes, a former South Texas election judge told a reporter that the 1948 Texas Senate primary election was stolen in favor of LBJ and he described exactly how it was done. Democratic officials “found” some extra votes for Johnson in a box that became known as “box 13.” (Is any of this sounding familiar yet?) That allowed Johnson to move on to win the general election, ascend to the Senate, and eventually the presidency.
The story was a blockbuster: A former Texas voting official was on the record detailing how nearly three decades earlier, votes were falsified to give then-congressman Lyndon B. Johnson a win that propelled the future president into the U.S. Senate.
The audio recordings from Associated Press reporter James W. Mangan’s interviews for the 1977 story were posted this week on the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum’s archival website, Discover LBJ. After Mangan’s death in 2015 at the age of 87, his family found the labeled cassette tapes at his San Antonio home and donated them last summer to the library on the campus of the University at Texas at Austin.
Luis Salas, the former South Texas election judge, told Mangan for the story: “Johnson did not win that election; It was stolen for him. And I know exactly how it was done.”
You can read more details along with the original story that ran in June of 1977 here. It’s a sordid tale of a part of Texas run by a handful of corrupt Democratic party bosses who were able to dictate the outcomes of nearly any election and silence anyone who tried to object.
Just imagine for a moment how different history might have been if this election hadn’t been stolen. If Johnson had lost and remained in the House or even left the federal government entirely, he almost certainly never would have been selected to serve as JFK’s Vice President. Then, after Kennedy’s assassination, someone else would have wound up in the White House.
Johnson’s “great society” vision involved some of the most rapid legislative actions ever seen. He had some admirable goals in terms of protecting wilderness lands and the environment, and he created many national parks. But that also set a trend in motion of the federal government acquiring control over more and more land at the expense of the autonomy of the states.
Similarly, Johnson set about combatting racism and establishing a social “safety net” for the poor. Those proved to be very popular programs, of course. But they were also the cornerstones of increased levels of welfare and governmental “free stuff” that would later balloon completely out of control under one Democratic administration after another.
As I suggested at the top, the method of election fraud used in 1948 isn’t much different than stories that we sometimes hear in the modern era. We still have election officials “finding” boxes of ballots at the last moment. Some of those may turn out to be completely legitimate votes while others seem far more suspicious. Look no further than the boxes of ballots found in an election official’s car putting Al Franken over the top in the 2008 election. So when you see things like that happening, don’t be cowed into silence by claims that it’s all a conspiracy theory. Demand transparency. As LBJ shows us, it doesn’t take much to change the entire course of history.
Well, LBJ succeeded JFK, who, according to many people actually won because of fraud in the Chicago area.
Many claim that Nixon should have been the President 8 years earlier.
Of course JFK stole the election from Nixon in 1960 too.
Any close election will be stolen by the Democrat. Take it to the bank. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
Ballot Box 13 started the Johnson machine.
Democrats and vote fraud go together like fish and water.
I notice you mention Jimmy Carter. I was already thinking that it has been low down for Jimmy Carter to have spent so much effort to “ensure election integrity” in other countries yet never raise a concern or lift a finger to advocate for election integrity here. A useless democrat.
It did happen. George Parr, aka the Duke of Duval (County) had it done by agents in Jim Wells County.
BUT, I don't trust AP to present the truth about anything. Is this an attempt of smooth out coming revealing of mass voter fraud in the past 2 presidential elections?
That was exposed in a book about LBJ that came out in 1964, I read it a few years ago.
The “Lyndon Landslide”, as it has been known in Texas ever since it happened—
A little boy in South Texas was sitting on the curb crying his eyes out. One of his uncles came by and asked, “Juan, why are you crying?
“It’s my grandma!” he sobbed.
“But Juan, your grandma has been dead for years!”
“I know, but she came back alive yesterday to vote for Mr. Johnson and didn’t even come to visit me!”
Well, LBJ succeeded JFK, who, according to many people actually won because of fraud in the Chicago area.
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“Many people” are dead wrong. That old canard has been around for too long.
JFK would have won anyway, even if Illinois electoral votes had gone to Nixon instead of Kennedy.
I read this one years ago that spells out the LBJ Steal: “A Texan Looks at Lyndon” —
https://haleylibrary.com/product/texan-looks-lyndon-study-illegitimate-power/
no career politician was worse than LBJ. he paid for his many sins imo by being drummed out of office for his vietnam failure, but the worst thing that jawboning, ‘deal with the devil making’, corrupt politician did is to destroy the saluatory political influence of American churches with his Johnson Amendment, and to harness all church contributions under an implied threat to taking by the IRS.
he conceived it and wrote it (or cribbed it from the devil himself) but it was actually the GOPe who passed it in ‘54, with Ike, no less. the GOPe then passed it again in 2017 (by not repealing it) under Trump. twice they could have prevented this American tragedy and failed. yes the uniparty has been around for a long time.
This is not a surprise. There was a book in the 60’s called “A Texan Looks at Lyndon” that contained much the same content. And much more.
One of the fake votes for Johnson came from a ballot supposedly cast by the grandfather of William F. Buckley Jr., the famous conservative author and commentator. The senior Buckley had died forty-four years earlier, in 1904, but obviously he didn’t see that as a good reason to skip voting! When the younger Buckley heard about it, he remarked, “I am very proud of my grandfather’s sense of civic obligation. Clearly it runs in the family.”
Everyone told Nixon to fight the sham of an election. Nixon refused saying he didn’t want to hurt the country with the turmoil it would create.
Years ago I thought it was just about the election.
Now I’m thinking it could be because Nixon knew that LBJ played a part in killing Kennedy, and Nixon didn’t want THAT information brought to light in some big investigation into a stolen election.
LBJ was commonly referred to as “Landslide Lyndon” in Texas after he stole the 1948 election.
Yup
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