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The Last Days of the President
The Atlantic ^ | July 1973 | Leo Janos

Posted on 12/14/2024 8:00:35 AM PST by DallasBiff

“I’m going to enjoy the time I’ve got left,” Johnson told friends when he left Washington in January, 1969, a worn old man at sixty, consumed by the bitter, often violent, five years of his presidency. He had never doubted that he could have won the 1968 election against Richard Nixon if he had chosen to run for another term. But in 1967 he launched a secret actuarial study on his life expectancy, supplying personal histories of all the males in the recent Johnson line, himself included. “The men in the Johnson family have a history of dying young,” he told me at his ranch in the summer of 1971, “My daddy was only sixty-two when he died, and I figured that with my history of heart trouble I’d never live through another four years. The American people had enough of Presidents dying in office.” The prediction handed to Johnson was that he would die at the age of sixty-four. He did.

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JMO, LBJ would have been electorally crushed by Nixon, but at least the democrats back in 68, did have a process to pick the new nominee, unlike Kamala who swept in with no primary or caucus votes.

Discuss and flame away.

1 posted on 12/14/2024 8:00:35 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

The Kennedys made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.


2 posted on 12/14/2024 8:11:12 AM PST by PAR35
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To: DallasBiff

Johnson drank two fifths of Cutty Sark scotch whiskey every day. That’s what killed him.


3 posted on 12/14/2024 8:11:50 AM PST by rexthecat
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t think the RATS were really thinking about America when they hired the Jamaican Hoodoo to be their nominee. They were thinking about “America’s first “woman of color” president for their commie lib “history” books. I don’t have a clue what they had for a Plan B for large scale emergencies or worse yet, a World War III. The numbskull would be in the White House hunkered down under her bed.


4 posted on 12/14/2024 8:13:21 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Looks like more nevertrumper BS -- oblique and implied -- directed at DJT by the partisans media shills at The Atlantic.

Physically, LBJ was less attractive than Brezhnev and DeGaulle. :^) He'd had a health scare in the 1950s, if memory serves. But he dropped out of the 1968 campaign after "Clean Gene" McCarthy had a strong showing in the NH primary, which led to RFK (Sr) to enter the race. The left never quite got over the 1968 presidential campaign.

5 posted on 12/14/2024 8:24:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Hey, hey, ho, ho, LBJ has got to go”


6 posted on 12/14/2024 8:35:43 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DallasBiff
"The American people had enough of Presidents dying in office.”

With respect to Joe Biden - it would have been fine with us.

7 posted on 12/14/2024 8:36:48 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: DallasBiff

Gentleman Bird probably suffering from venereal disease contracted from sleazy female reporters he sept with.


8 posted on 12/14/2024 8:37:22 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Looks like more nevertrumper BS -- oblique and implied -- directed at DJT by the partisans media shills at The Atlantic.

 

Not likely. Since this article was written in 1973.

9 posted on 12/14/2024 8:38:41 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: Larry Lucido

https://youtu.be/nuk7ygNaRzs?si=wi1Zqm3-3vDth0Xm


10 posted on 12/14/2024 8:40:20 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: DallasBiff
He had never doubted that he could have won the 1968 election against Richard Nixon if he had chosen to run for another term.

No, I think he knew he'd be crushed as much or more than Kamala Harris and that's why he withdrew.

11 posted on 12/14/2024 8:43:44 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Thanks, then again, it depends on how long it’s been up.


12 posted on 12/14/2024 8:52:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: DallasBiff

The Last Days of the President

The Last Days of the Con


13 posted on 12/14/2024 8:56:44 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: rexthecat

“Johnson drank two fifths of Cutty Sark scotch whiskey every day.”

Couldn’t he afford anything better than that?


14 posted on 12/14/2024 9:05:01 AM PST by caver
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To: DallasBiff

Johnson smoked like a chimney and slept very little. He might have lived longer if he smoked less and slept more.


15 posted on 12/14/2024 9:22:32 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Larry Lucido

“Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today”?


16 posted on 12/14/2024 9:25:35 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: DallasBiff

The last days of biden are clearly being spent doing as much damage to this country as possible before he leaves office.


17 posted on 12/14/2024 9:26:01 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: rexthecat

I think it was said that he could “handle two fifths of Cutty Sark scotch whiskey in a day”, supposedly he had staff water down his whiskey so it looked like he was drinking as much as he wanted his guests to, so that he could be thought as vulnerable as them.

“Always seeking to wield the levers of power to his advantage, the Machiavellian Johnson while Senate majority leader instructed staff to make his scotch and soda significantly weaker than his guest’s so that he could keep a clearer head.”


18 posted on 12/14/2024 9:26:25 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Larry Lucido

They weren’t kiddin’ around, eh? :^)


19 posted on 12/14/2024 9:27:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: DallasBiff

Johnson (LBJ) appears to have been a sociopath.

He did intense harm to the United States of America.


20 posted on 12/14/2024 9:31:42 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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