LBJ was/is the rule and not the exception. LBJ was a horrid human being. Look at his record from his earliest days in Congress (1937). He used his power to destroy and bankrupt good and decent men for his own gain - from the damned near theft of a radio and subsequent TV station in Austin (with the heavy handed assist of the FCC), to Billy Sol Estes kickbacks on the fraudulent gas and grain silos and Bobby Baker kickbacks on the Serv-U vendor contracts on all government contractors working on military contracts.
Literally, the DAY JFK was shot, there was a Senate committee hearing wherein contractors were laying before the Senate physical documents detailing LBJ’s knowledge, complicity and receipt in kick-back schemes totaling millions of dollars. The meeting was interrupted with news of JFK’s assassination. Lawyers for the testifying witnesses grabbed all records off of the tables, placed them in briefcases, stated unequivocally that their witnesses now wished to recant their statements made earlier in the day. They KNEW that it was one thing to attack the Veep and another thing entirely to attack the Prez.
ALL TRUE, BBC, but with LBJ that’s only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Especially as it relates to the JFK assassination, t he specter of Mac Wallace, and how the world changed on 11-22-63.Don’t get me started.
Didn’t he also have Brown & Root (notorious non union contractor) build his own runway for AF1 on his Texas ranch?
That’s what I always heard anyway when I was a little chilrun in the 60’s