Does Clinton have the same type of protection.
I don't think he was pulling my leg. I don't think it was any kind of mafia type organization either. Texas was highly partisan Democrat at the time and it would have been like pulling out a copy of Mein Kampf in a synagogue. Those boys could and did play rough, though. There were counties where there were no blacks allowed at all.
I was a pup at the time but I was fortunate enough to be around men who foresaw intuitively the tumult that was about to engulf the country. One could not look at Lyndon Johnson and not know that he was a dangerous man, the same way that a later generation could sense that Bill Clinton was a threat. It may have been an overly cautious reaction but one does not advertise opposition to gray men in gray suits who have power and no restraint. A plain brown wrapping, I think, would have been a prudent precaution at the time.