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To: vetvetdoug

Thanks. Yeah LBJ left office as the wealthiest President with the exception of maybe Geo Washington. Washington inflation adjusted was supposedly a billionaire.

What is weird is after he left office the family almost disappeared off the radar.


35 posted on 11/24/2008 11:49:29 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: Frantzie
"Yeah LBJ left office as the wealthiest President"

Really, really off topic but kind of interesting. For many, many years LBJ controlled all broadcasting in Austin with only a single TV station they owned that carried content, as they wanted, from all three networks.

When they were finally pressured into opening up the market they arranged that any new stations were broadcast on a UHF channel which, at the time, only newer televisions could receive (this was long before cable).

It's no longer an issue but to this day there's only one VHF channel in Austin.

He ran Austin like his personal fiefdom and it hurt Austin for many, many years.

143 posted on 11/24/2008 2:06:16 PM PST by Proud_texan (Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
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To: Frantzie

“What is weird is after he left office the family almost disappeared off the radar.”

Washington or Johnson?


190 posted on 11/24/2008 4:34:07 PM PST by bricklayer
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