Posted on 04/07/2023 9:02:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Kudos to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin for posting to the web copies of tapes that prove that Lyndon Baines Johnson stole his seat in the Senate when first running for it. Johnson went on to absolutely dominate the Senate as Majority Leader, and from there he managed to become president when JFK was assassinated in his home state of Texas while he was VP.
The stolen election was the Democrat primary, which back then was tantamount to election because Democrats dominated the segregated South of the era. Johnson defeated former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson by 87 votes, after a box of votes was “discovered.”
It is honorable of the Library, which after all is devoted to LBJ’s memory, to allow this blot on his record to be aired. They are more honest than the man whose presidency they commemorate.
But the Associated Press, whose reporter made the tapes in 1977 and who wrote about them then, is less forthright in its article about the release.
It does provide the basic information:
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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
LBJ and such leftists like Obama are incredibly evil creatures and we all pay the price for their actions. Just pure evil.
OJ was set up.
from what i understand, it was quite credible...i know Illinois was one of the first States to close their polls that night...but were the last to report...like 3 30 AM. It looked very fishy. Many people wanted Nixon to contest the election, but he declined, fearing he would look like a sore loser.
How about the famous photograph of a smiling Truman holding a newspaper headlined “Dewey Defeats Truman”?
It was almost a given that the White House would switch parties after two terms in one party’s hands. The Democrats had held it an unprecedented four terms.
in all fairness to Johnson, this was actually his second run for the US Senate...his first, a 1941 special election, he got that one stolen from him. Pure Texas politics and he returned the favor in kind in 1948...After the 64 election, you look at the HUGE Majorities he had in Congress...scary stuff. He did a lot of damage with those Majorities too..
Kennedy's electoral margin of victory was provided by Cook County, Illinois (under the dictatorship of Mayor Richard Daley, master of getting out the dead vote), and Texas, the (demoncrat-owned) home state of LBJ.
Nixon lost Texas by a bit less than 50,000 votes. In his Y2K book, The Real Making of the President, William Rorabaugh gives evidence that Texas shorted Nixon by at least 100,000 and maybe 200,000 votes.
The problem was, there was no legal mechanism in place to challenge Texas' vote count. So knowing that there was no point challenging Cook County unless he also could overturn Texas, Nixon went meekly on his way rather than tear the nation apart challenging the election.
It also bears mention that in JFK's first foray into politics, his father blackmailed his predecessor, the sitting Member of the House, into not running for re-election to clear the deck for JFK. Then Joe Sr. found a derelict with the same name as JFK's Republican opponent and paid him to put his name on the ballot, effectively splitting his opponent's ticket.
And with this "revelation" that LBJ was immaculated, not elected, to his Senate seat, why is it so far-fetched that those two together couldn't have stolen the presidential election?
I have been hearing it for decades.
Johnson was announced the winner by 87 votes out of 988,295, an extremely narrow margin of victory. However, Johnson's victory was based on 200 "patently fraudulent"[55]: 608 ballots reported six days after the election from Box 13 in Jim Wells County, in an area dominated by political boss George Parr. The added names were in alphabetical order and written with the same pen and handwriting, following at the end of the list of voters. Some of the persons in this part of the list insisted that they had not voted that day.[56] Election judge Luis Salas said in 1977 that he had certified 202 fraudulent ballots for Johnson.[57] Robert Caro made the case in his 1990 book that Johnson had stolen the election in Jim Wells County, and that there were thousands of fraudulent votes in other counties as well, including 10,000 votes switched in San Antonio.[58]
About the only other negative statements I see are,
Johnson is strongly criticized for his foreign policy, namely escalating American involvement in the Vietnam War.
He was described by friends, fellow politicians, and historians as motivated by an exceptional lust for power and control. As Johnson's biographer Robert Caro observes, "Johnson's ambition was uncommon – in the degree to which it was unencumbered by even the slightest excess weight of ideology, of philosophy, of principles, of beliefs."[43]
Johnson steered the projects towards contractors he knew, such as Herman and George Brown, who would finance much of Johnson's future career.[26]
US presidential historian Michael Beschloss observed that Johnson "gave white supremacist speeches" during the 1948 campaign, in order to secure the white vote.
In the 1948 elections, Johnson again ran for the Senate and won in a highly controversial Democratic Party primary against the well-known former governor Coke Stevenson.
Johnson was touched by a Senate scandal in August 1963 when Bobby Baker, the Secretary to the Majority Leader of the Senate and a protégé of Johnson's, came under investigation by the Senate Rules Committee for allegations of bribery and financial malfeasance. One witness alleged that Baker had arranged for the witness to give kickbacks for the Vice President. Baker resigned in October, and the investigation did not expand to Johnson.
Johnson continued the FBI's wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. that had been previously authorized by the Kennedy administration under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.[261] As a result of listening to the FBI's tapes, remarks on King's extramarital activities were made by several prominent officials, including Johnson, who once said that King was a "hypocritical preacher".[262] This was despite the fact that Johnson himself had multiple extramarital affairs.[41] Johnson also authorized the tapping of phone conversations of others, including the Vietnamese friends of a Nixon associate.[263]
Historian Kent Germany explains Johnson's poor public image: The man who was elected to the White House by one of the widest margins in U.S. history and pushed through as much legislation as any other American politician now seems to be remembered best by the public for succeeding an assassinated hero, steering the country into a quagmire in Vietnam, cheating on his saintly wife, exposing his stitched-up belly, using profanity, picking up dogs by their ears, swimming naked with advisers in the White House pool, and emptying his bowels while conducting official business. Of all those issues, Johnson's reputation suffers the most from his management of the Vietnam War, something that has overshadowed his civil rights and domestic policy accomplishments and caused Johnson himself to regret his handling of "the woman I really loved—the Great Society."[303]
Yet,
His overall rating among historians has remained relatively steady over the past 35 years, and his average ranking is higher than any of the eight presidents who followed him, although similar to Reagan and Clinton.[304] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson
Imagine the treatment by Wiki if he was GOP.
LBJ was Pure EVIL and LOW CLASS as they come.....Typical Democrat!
Long ago I heard a story about Joe Kennedy senior fixing the election for Truman. Most folks know that former prosecutor, Thomas Dewey was largely expected to win against Truman. As a prosecutor, Dewey rabidly went after organized crime and Kennedy, as a former bootlegger had many contacts in organized crime.
I have no way of knowing how accurate this story is but connecting the dots doesn’t violate logic.
totally.
And they stole Johnson’s seat with phoney found votes, just like they do today.
Yep. Unfortunately America has a long history of stolen elections. They are not rare at all like the corporate media now wants to claim.
After LBJ complained to his patron FDR about the other side cheating to win that election FDR laughed and said: “Lyndon, apparently you Texans haven’t learned one of the first things we learned up in New York State,” laughed President Roosevelt, “and that is that when the election is over, you have to sit on the ballot boxes.”
ie....you have to prevent the other side from stuffing the ballot box.....ie cheating is regular and to be expected and you have to cheat better than the other side and/or expect them to cheat.
“ie....you have to prevent the other side from stuffing the ballot box.....ie cheating is regular and to be expected and you have to cheat better than the other side and/or expect them to cheat.”
And that’s the only way the Republicans will ever get the WH back. The RINO’s and “goodie two shoes” will prevent that from happening.
The Coke Stevenson-Lyndon Johnson election was covered at length in Caro’s lengthy biography of LBJ. Less well known was the Missouri steal that also occurred during the Kennedy-Nixon election. All that being said, this Biden election takes the cake for lawbreaking.
Much easier to do when you are mastermind of the assassination. Can I dream of a day when his library will release those files as well?
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He also killed Kennedy. No doubt in my mind after reading “The Man Who Killed JFK”.
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