[ExtremeUnction]

LBJ had the money and the connections to manipulate the scenario in Dallas..

LBJ's WIFE had money, not LBJ himself.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

LBJ's WIFE had money, not LBJ himself.

LBJ sheltered all his ill-gotten gains in his wife's name - basically an early version of Whitewater.

[rfp1234]

--LBJ had the money and the connections to manipulate the scenario in Dallas..
LBJ's WIFE had money, not LBJ himself.--

If I recall correctly, LBJ's wife also owns about 500,000 shares of HALLIBURTON...

[cherry]

LBJ had a LOT of money after he left the presidency, IIRC.......

he was a Clinton type..maybe smoother with his "good ol boy" mannerisms, as compared to Clinton's "good ol mama boy" mannerisms....

[Amanda75]

It may have started out that way, but being from Texas, I can attest to the facts that LBJ, salted away more money on the tax payers back, than any other president in history.

[Barb4Bush]

LBJ started out poor but ended up plenty rich. Though marriage, dirty politics, and some very fortuitous deaths (rather like the Clintons) he ended up wealthy in his on right.

[KC Burke]

Citing that much of the property and wealth at the time he was Senate leader and Vice President was "his wife's" hides the fact that most of it was property that he had aquired in politics and choose to put into his wife's name to keep it at arm's length from his name due to the manner in which it was acquired and so that he could claim "it wasn't mine."

Read Caro's book to get the details of how shabby his treatment of "Lady Bird" really was in their true family nature. His confidants, friends and other relations felt that she was subject to constant terrible treatment bordering on abuse.

[kiriath_jearim]

"LBJ's WIFE had money, not LBJ himself."

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She had SOME money from her father...but the kind that made LBJ a millionaire came from his supporters among the Texas oil companies and the big construction outfit Brown & Root. LBJ and Brown&Root were almost like Siamese twins in terms of political funding and manipulation, especially when LBJ became a US senator and arguably the most powerful Senate majority leader in US Senate history.

[lonestar]

LBJ's WIFE had money, not LBJ himself.

In the beginning of their marriage Lady Bird was the one with money. By '63 LBJ had used his "elected positions" to have made his own money; he had long coat-tails, too, enjoyed by his friends.

[Prost1]

LBJ has access to lots of Oil money. Connelly was his bag man and Senate chief of staff. When LBJ became VP, Connelly left LBJs staff to become Govenor. He won easily.

[ggekko60506]

"LBJ's WIFE had money, not LBJ himself"

Not exactly true. Lady Bird was the daughter of a moderately successful local businessman in Texas who was not rich, at least by Texas standards.

The source of LBJ's fortune and political influence was unadulterated political graft and corruption that he nourished from his earliest days as a political operative starting with his work for FDR as a new Deal Program Administrator.

An example of how Johnson made money through political graft was his practice of having cronies manipulate radio licenses issued by the FCC. The FCC would change, by fiat, the relative position of a radio license on the dial or revoke the license outright thereby adversely effecting the commercial value of the radio station. Associates of Johnson would then purchase the station at fire sale prices in the wake of the adverse license decision by the FCC. A few months later the license would be restored to its original status thereby reaping a financial windfall for LBJ and his cronies. LBJ always conducted these transactions in Lady Bird's name in order to avoid closer scrutiny of these corrupt operations. At one time, Lady Bird was the putative head of a Media Empire even though she had no prior business or financial management experience or training. The entire structure was an absurd fiction that drew attention way from LBJ's political extortion and influence peddling operation.

An example LBJ's business practices are described here to give a picture of the man's character. LBJ's career is completely consistent with a man who is mired in megalomania ( he once offered the Pope a bust of himself as a gift) and ruthless, amoral ambition. The only coherent, logically consistent theory of the JFK assassination is developed int he remarkable book "The Texas Connection" by Craig Zirbel.

In Zirbel's Book, the various left-wing/CIA/DOD conspiracy theories of the assassination are demolished and LBJ's motive for the assassination are detailed with great clarity. Zirbel begins by detailing the fact that right-hand man orchestrated assassinations are the most common types by far historically. LBJ was not only JFk's right-hand man thereby having inside information about JFK's itinerary but he also was facing political oblivion and probably a long prison sentence prior to the assassination because of emerging political scandals.

In 1963 LBJ faced a dire situation The Billy Sol Estses and Bobby Baker scandals were being investigated by Senate Committees and the Justice Department (the sordid details surrounding these scandals is described in great detail in Zirbel's book). The final investigative result of either scandal would have ruined LBJ politically and possibly sent him to prison. Additionally, LBJ was told that the JFK planned to drop him from the 1964 ticket. It is amazing that Zirbel is the only assassination researcher who has properly highlighted these facts about LBJ's dire situation in 1963: pending political disgrace and prison.

After JFK's death and LBJ's ascension to the Presidency, the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes' investigations were abandoned by the Senate and DOJ "in the national interest". This turn of events uniquely redounded to the benefit of LBJ and LBJ alone.

The premise of Zirbel's book the the premise of all successful murder investigations: "Qui Bono?". In the case of the JFK murder only LBJ benefited and in the nick of time from LBJ's perspective. LBJ was also the only person who had the connections in the Dallas Police Department to "manage" the post-assasination investigation and autopsy.

The recent death bed confession of LBJ's mistress Judith Exner, the posthumous revelations of Howard Hunt in his book and the revelations in the Blair McClellan book all detail the centrality of LBJ in the assassination. the posthumous nature of Hunt's account should lend it additional weight.