Posted on 09/09/2011 6:22:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President John F. Kennedy was so "worried for the country" about the prospect that Vice President Lyndon Johnson might succeed him as president that he'd begun having private conversations about who should become the Democratic Party's standard-bearer in 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy recalled in a series of oral-history interviews recorded in early 1964.
She said her husband believed strongly that Johnson shouldn't become president and, in the months before his death in November 1963, he'd begun talking to his brother, Robert Kennedy, about ways to maneuver around Johnson in 1968.
"Bobby told me this later, and I know Jack said it to me sometimes. He said, 'Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if Lyndon was president?'" she said.
The president gave no serious consideration to dropping Johnson from the ticket in 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recalled. But he did have some talks about how to avoid having Johnson run for president in 1968, at the end of what would have been Kennedy's second term, she said.
"He didn't like that idea that Lyndon would go on and be president because he was worried for the country," she said. "Bobby told me that he'd had some discussions with him. I forget exactly how they were planning or who they had in mind. It wasn't Bobby, but somebody. Do something to name someone else in '68."
Jacqueline Kennedy's recollections, in a series of interviews conducted by writer-historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and kept private by the Kennedy family until this month, depict a distant and at times disturbing relationship between a president and the man who ultimately did succeed him in office upon his assassination.
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Johnson had his own plan, and it worked ?
I was told if I voted for Goldwater that we would have riots in the streets and get in a long, unwinnable war. Well I voted for Goldwater and darn if they weren’t right.
And she had a right to fear LBJ. His “Great Society” program has removed low income and minority dads from homes and spawned multiple generations of “momma’s boys” animals. Sad.
And for what? For this:
“It’s simple: I’ll have them n_____s voting Democratic for two hundred years.” (Lyndon Johnson’s reported comment explaining why the civil rights bill and Great Society program was so important to him.)
May the Lord help our great country, and the millions of lives damaged through this great evil.
RE: Johnson had his own plan, and it worked ?
Well, he gave us the great society didn’t he? How’s that working out for us?
There has never been any doubt in my mind that LBJ was behind Kennedy’s assassination.
... as did we all.
The press was getting ready to release the story that JFK was having an affair with a Russian spy. Next thing you know, JFK is dead. The Democrat party killed their own President to protect the party. What will they do now, or allow to happen, to protect their Party?
Right - Kennedy feared for the country because of Johnson? Kennedy? Johnson was a bully and a coward and overrated. What BS.
$7 Trillion down the rat hole and a higher poverty rate than when he started!
$7 Trillion down the rat hole and a higher poverty rate than when he started!
But not so worried for the country that he would pick someone else (with fewer southern votes) as a running mate.
Typical Kennedy, typical Leftist.
The press proected JFK from all rumor,innuendo,and,most importantly,facts.He slept with Judy Exner in the WH.She was the babe of Sam Giancana. The spy you’re referring to was the Easr German agent. Hoover knew it, LBJ knew it.the press knew it,and no one was going to go public.All of the beltway,though there was no beltway in 63, had too many skeletons taking up space in the closet,and that included the press. No one was outing JFK’s affairs.
I want to say it was Robert Caro (LBJ biographer) that said that Senators Mike Mansfield and LBJ “paid” JFK a visit and told him that LBJ was going to be his running mate.
What would have happened to Kennedy, and thus the Democrat Party, if the press had jumped on the story of his affair with a communist agent? How would that have compared to say, the press coverage of Watergate? Would it have destroyed the Democrat Party? Would the Democrats let their party be destroyed? What state was LBJ from? Where was JFK killed? Too many coincidences.
Kennedy never worried about anything but Kennedy.
Gee.. ya think.
Bobby "Little Lyndon" Baker was a long-time friend and key staffer for Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Baker was under investigation by the J- and RFK Department of Justice, et al. I recall that Baker had been indicted on some of the many charges resulting from years and years of corruption and crimes. He knew the Washington crowd that included the young woman killed by Ted Kennedy. Hey! it's Washington.
There was also, among many LBJ associates, Billie Sol Estes and his shenanigans that included the 1961 "suicide" of Henry Marshall a Dept. of Agriculture official in Texas investigating fraudulent government subsidies.
(Considering the current administration few Americans know that that was and still is illegal. Yes, illegal. Really.)
Estes was of course an associate of LBJ, what else.. I did say he was a criminal, right? 20+ years later Estes would admit that a close LBJ associate murdered Mr. Marshall. And Texas authorities admitted that it was murder.. shooting one's self five or six times with a bolt action rifle after bludgeoning one's self was rarely a suicide method used back then.
That associate was Malcolm E. "Mac" Wallace. Ten years before that Wallace was convicted of murdering a man, "with malice aforethought" -- murder in the first degree IOW, and walked away with a five year suspended sentence.
"My kind of man!" LBJ must have thought. Though it helped Wallace that the murdered man had the enmity of LBJ and LBJ's lawyer represented Wallace in LBJ's Texas.
NOW I get it.
Just like in an earlier thread ... we get this information waayyy too late to do any good.
What will we discover when ozero is completely vetted and exposed?
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