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I think that’s correct, don’t remember. I’m sure Nixon at least suspected foul play. It was well known LBJ had cheated years before, and not exactly unknown that JFK’s father Joe Kennedy had set up a meeting with the Chicago mob boss not long before the primary, which is assumed to be why JFK carried Illinois and got the nomination.

It was also well known LBJ and the Kennedys hated each other. No way JFK would pick him as his running mate. When JFK knew he had the nomination in the bag, he called a meeting of 8 or 10 people on his list for VP, Johnson was _not_ on it. An hour before that meeting, LBJ barged in and demanded a meeting of his own. John, Bobby & Johnson. Took about 20 minutes, when they left the room people who were there said LBJ was then his running mate, and JFK looked like he wss almost in tears. Shocked everyone in DC, the press yawned.

Nobody knows what was said, the 3 of them never talked, but blackmail was the only answer. LBJ didn’t have nearly the money to bribe a Kennedy. Just one example of how JFK let chasing women cause himself a lot of grief.

(As president, he also bedded down a woman who turned out to be a Russian spy. Literally trained by the KGB to nab any American politician she could. She bagged the President...CIA found out and deported her in a couple of days.)

Common suspicion is Johnson had proof and threatened to expose Kennedy’s running around. But nobody can prove it, all 3 in tbe room are dead and none of them ever said a word.

So I’m pretty sure Nixon at least suspected dirty dealing, but don’t know for a fact. Johnson was well known as one of the biggest liars in DC, hardcore racist, thief, corrupt, foul mouthed, coarse, rude and a tyrant. Slap a suit on trailer trash, you get Lyndon Johnson. Cheated to win his first election, high school president, bribed and bullied people for votes. Nickname was bull, short for bullsh!t, since he was well known as the biggest liar in the school. According to books by secret service guys, the only president they ever saw drunk, at least since JFK. Stole more from the white house when he left than Hill and Billary did. His ranch in Texas kept 2 water trucks sent from DC so he could water the roads and stop the dust. We paid for them.

See if you can find and read “The Dark Side of Camelot”. Great book, well researched, he interviewed everyone in DC that was still alive and would talk, on or off the record. Also the book Gary Aldrich wrote, “Full Access” I think, FBI agent who did background checks on white house employees, retired because of the mess Clinton made of the office. And 2 or 3 books written by secret service agents and Peter Schweitzer. It’s a jungle in that town. And Tarzan just might be back next Jan 20...we can only hope at this point.