Posted on 04/30/2023 7:16:26 AM PDT by devane617
In late March, audio recordings from a 1977 interview detailing how the late President Lyndon Johnson won the 1948 Senate contest in Texas were posted to the archival website of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The tapes renewed interest in the sordid episode that saved Johnson’s political career — and threw some light on how American elections have been, and can be, stolen.
In 1977, James Mangan, a reporter for the Associated Press, conducted a series of interviews that touched on the allegations of the 1948 steal. After Mangan died in 2015, family members found the cassette tapes of the interviews at his home in San Antonio. In 2022, they decided they were of such historical value that they needed to be donated to the LBJ Library in Austin.
Here we will take a detailed look at the events leading up to Johnson’s surprise “victory” in the 1948 Democratic primaries.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Sure glad this kind of thing doesn’t happen any more in modern America! [sarcasm]
The thing about assassination is that you have zero control of the aftermath. Arch Duke Ferdinand sort of thing.
Landslide Lyndon, 1948:
“Report: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Tapes Reveal She Believed LBJ Plotted JFK Assassination
By IBTimes Staff Reporter
08/08/11 AT 1:57 PM EDT
acqueline Kennedy Onassis believed Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination of her husband, according to tapes recorded by the former first lady just months after President John F. Kennedy’s death, the Daily Mail reports.
The tapes, which are set to be released by ABC News, reportedly reveal that Kennedy Onassis believed then-vice president Johnson, along with businessmen in the South, planned the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of her husband in Dallas.
Johnson succeeded to the presidency on Kennedy’s death, completed his term and was elected president in his own right by a landslide in 1964.
...”
“Lyndon B. Johnson demanded to be sworn in alongside Jackie Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson insisted that JFK’s wife Jackie Kennedy accompany him back to Washington hours after her husband’s assassination on November 22, 1963.
IrishCentral Staff
@IrishCentral
Mar 27, 2023
Jackie Kennedy stood beside Lyndon B. Johnson as he was inaugurated on Air Force One just hours after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Lyndon B. Johnson insisted that JFK’s wife Jackie Kennedy accompany him back to Washington on Air Force One just hours after her husband was assassinated and that she stand beside him in the famous photograph where he was sworn in as president, a new book reveals.
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“Tape-recorded phone calls between LBJ and Jackie from shortly after the assassination reveal an over-familiarity on LBJ’s part that could possibly stem from his knowledge of her role on that fateful day in Dallas. It sounds like he was using it for all it was worth to coerce Jackie into a more intimate relationship with him. Jackie reportedly did not know she was being recorded but seems to take care in choosing her responses, perhaps due to CIA training and political savvy.
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LBJ: Listen, sweetie. Now, first thing you’ve got to learn-you’ve got some things to learn, and one of them is that you don’t bother me. You give me strength.
JBK: But I wasn’t going to send you in one more letter. I was so scared you’d answer.
LBJ: Don’t send me anything, don’t send me anything! You just come on over and put your arm around me. That’s all you do. When you haven’t got anything else to do, let’s take a walk. Let’s walk around the backyard and just let me tell you how much you mean to all of us and how we can carry on if you give us a little strength!
JBK: But you know what I wanted to say to you about that letter? I know how rare a letter is in a President’s handwriting. Do you know that I’ve got more in your handwriting than I do in Jack’s now?
LBJ: Well-
JBK: And for you to write it at this time, and then to send me that thing today of, you know, your Cape announcement and everything-
LBJ: I want you to just know this, that I told my mama a long time ago when everybody else gave up about my election in ‘48-
JBK: Yes?
LBJ: My mother and my wife and my sisters and you females got a lot of courage that we men don’t have. And so we have to rely on you and depend on you, and you’ve got something to do. You’ve got the President relying on you. And this is not the first one you’ve had! So there’re not many women, you know, running around with a good many Presidents. So you just bear that in mind. You’ve got the biggest job of your life!
JBK: [laughs] “She ran around with two Presidents.” That’s what they’ll say about me!
LBJ: Darling, you know what I said to the Congress-I’d give anything in the world if I wasn’t here today. [laughs]
JBK: Well, listen, oh, it’s going to be funny because the rooms are all so big. You’ll all get lost, but anyway-
LBJ: You going to come back and see me?
JBK: [chuckles]
LBJ: Hmm?
JBK: Someday I will.
LBJ: Some day?
JBK: But anyway, take a big sleeping pill.
LBJ: Aren’t you going to bring- You know what they do with me, they just keep my, they’re just like taking a hypo, they just stimulate me and I just get every idea out of every head in my life comes back and I start thinking new things and new roads to conquer.
JBK: Yeah? Great.
LBJ: So I can’t. Sleeping pill won’t put me to sleep. It just wakes me up.
JBK: Oh.
LBJ: But if I know that you are going to come back to see me some morning when you are bringing your-
JBK: I will.
LBJ: -kid to school, and first time you do, please come and walk and let me walk down to the seesaw with you like old times.
JBK: I will, Mr. President.
LBJ: Okay. Give Caroline and John-John a hug for me.
JBK: I will.
LBJ: Tell them I’d like to be their daddy!
JBK: I will.
LBJ: Well, I’ve got to see you before long. I’ve got to see you.
JBK: Well, any time you say is great.
LBJ: All right.
JBK: Thanks.
LBJ: I’ll call you sometime and come by.
JBK: Okay.”
The Wink
“I want you to just know this, that I told my mama a long time ago when everybody else gave up about my election in ‘48”
Yes. Pure Landslide Lyndon. Crude, blunt and crooked as hell.
Was he in on JFK’s murder? No. I don’t think he was. Largely because of a statement he made to Barry Goldwater before he died.
As a youth, I learned how crooked LBJ was, but I never met him.
There were others who wanted to end JFK, and did it.
“a new book reveals”
Original source?
I am not as trusting as I once was.
He was no more (or less) ruthless than FDR or Woodrow Wilson, for that matter.
Woodrow Wilson was probably the worst President in U.S. history. Biden is working really hard to beat his record.
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