Posted on 09/21/2014 6:18:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Did some good things; did some bad things. A lot of people lost their homes due to his various endeavors.
I’ve always been fascinated by Robert Moses. A couple of years ago I ATTEMPTED to read Caro’s book.....I say “attempted”, because, less than 50 pages in, Caro’s leftist indoctrinated claptrap nearly made me throw the book across the room. I believe the part that set me off was Caro’s accusations regarding the HORRORS of the architecturally sterile, cold designs of the new NYC Housing Projects. Exactly as brainwashed to do, he designated the first tenants of these developments as “victims”......I have some PERSONAL knowledge of the original inhabitants of these facilities. They were Honest, Hard Working, Clean Living people raising families and glad for the opportunity to live in clean, safe, fireproof buildings which were completely surrounded by manicured lawns, shrubs, paths, benches, playgrounds, etc. All that was UNTIL liberal scum like Caro designated everyone a “victim” and turned the places into the hellholes they are today. Again, I’d love to find a quality biography of Moses, but Caro’s verbal diarrhea isn’t what I’m looking for.
If Kelo had been decided 100 years earlier, Moses would have had NYC named after himself.
Robert Caro is a participant in the cover-up of LBJ’s murder of JFK.
The fact that, fifty years later, it is possible for historians and journalists to be intimidated into concealing crimes of such magnitude explains how all “respectable” people—even those we are inclined to think of as having “integrity”—have been intimidated into ignoring the fact that we have a “President” who is a Muslim terrorist and almost certainly an illegal alien.
For supposedly being a leftist, he sure cut LBJ down to size. In the first volume he shows the poor beginnings but by the second volume he shows LBJ for the cheating pol he was and what a crappy human being he was to his wife and everyone around him.
I absolutely refuse to call it the "RFK Bridge".
Perhaps I overreached a bit branding him a “leftist”. I have not researched Caro enough for that. Just wanted to get that rant off my chest.....I personally won’t read any more Caro works, not after seeing him (a “biographer”) insert that opinionated garbage, which tends to make me question every subsequent assertion in the book.
In part due to Caro's biography, we had no illusions that we were in for a long, hard fight that required us to not only make the case against the project, but to also expose wrong doing, file law suits, win the public over, and to wreck enough political careers to make the project toxic to local and state power brokers. The fight lasted years but we won, based on the strategy that we developed in the first few weeks -- with Robert Caro's help, so to speak.
Caro’s biographies are a long, hard slog but always worth reading. As to his biography of Moses, I nearly quit for similar reasons but was glad to have persevered to the end.
Thanks....maybe I’ll try again one day.
Biographers have a hard path. They are a type of historian. For historians, they can chose to be scholarly historians, following every rule of citation and technical accuracy, and end up dry and difficult, or they can chose to write a narrative history easily consumed by an interested reader.
Biographers almost always have to chose the narrative form which forces them to add interpretative vignettes to paint in the details. I know that I will hit that sort of item and assume I see the author’s bias and it can turn me off. Philbrick did that for me in his book on the history of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
I also believe that LBJ murdered JFK. He had the motive, the connections, and (most importantly) he had the most to gain from his death. It’s really painfully obvious to anyone who steps back and looks at the big picture. The cherry-on-top is that is happened in Texas.
I’ll go one step further. I think that Oswald was put up to do it by his Leftist handlers. And what was their motivation? I think LBJ promised them the Great Society and other legislation (like the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965). In short, he gave them an infant welfare state and the hooks to eliminate the White majority & replace Capitalism with Socialism.
By 1968, Karma had kicked LBJ in the a$$ so hard that even he wanted out.
Read Caro’s multivolume biography of LBJ. Caro definitively proves that LBJ and his allies stole the 1948 Senate election and details much corruption and rotten behavior by LBJ. Caro is a liberal, but even more than that, he is an old style reporter and a determined digger of facts.
“Prior to her election to the U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren, in her unofficial capacity as advisor to President Obama, conceived the agency which is not responsible to Congress as it is funded through fees collected by the Federal Reserve. “
Thank you Congress.
Oswald didn't shoot anybody.
It was LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover, Texas oil men, and the CIA who killed Kennedy. There were shots from the sixth-floor window and from--yes!--the Grassy Knoll.
JFK was Johnson's ninth (at least) murder. Among his previous murders was his own sister, Josefa.
Jackie and Bobby knew the truth. Jackie asked French intelligence to tell her the truth. LBJ did it. Bobby and Jackie were silenced. Both knew the FBI had a mountain of dirt on them both. Jackie was a tramp, and Bobby was the male equivalent.
There is a photo of Bobby with LBJ in the Rose Garden. Johnson's mouth is hanging open. The White House photographer swore that Bobby had just said: "Why did you kill my brother?"
In speeches, Bobby was promising to re-open the investigation when he was shot.
The Warren Commission was a hoax, run by Gerald Ford.
Since JFK stole the 1960 election, one could argue that we have not had a legitimate government since January 20, 1961.
I don’t know that Johnson was an ideological Leftist, aside from being a murderer and crook, which is the essence of Leftism.
His thinking was more on the intellectual level of his famous statement about the Great Society: “We’ll have those n*ggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”
Bump
I don’t think Johnson himself was a Communist. A Communist would not have prosecuted the Vietnam war as he did. However, I DO think he made promises to the Leftists for cover. We can debate whether Oswald pulled the trigger or not, but I think he a weak link and was offered up by his fellow Leftists as the perfect patsy. In exchange, Johnson gave them much of what they wanted.
That’s my theory anyway.
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