Posted on 12/16/2022 9:53:32 AM PST by bitt
Jacqueline Kennedy's oral history reveals husband's disdain for Lyndon Johnson.
President John F. Kennedy was so "worried for the country" about the prospect that Vice President Lyndon Johnson might succeed him as president that he'd begun having private conversations about who should become the Democratic Party's standard-bearer in 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy recalled in a series of oral-history interviews recorded in early 1964.
She said her husband believed strongly that Johnson shouldn't become president and, in the months before his death in November 1963, he'd begun talking to his brother, Robert Kennedy, about ways to maneuver around Johnson in 1968.
"Bobby told me this later, and I know Jack said it to me sometimes. He said, 'Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if Lyndon was president?'" she said.
The president gave no serious consideration to dropping Johnson from the ticket in 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recalled. But he did have some talks about how to avoid having Johnson run for president in 1968, at the end of what would have been Kennedy's second term, she said.
"He didn't like that idea that Lyndon would go on and be president because he was worried for the country," she said. "Bobby told me that he'd had some discussions with him. I forget exactly how they were planning or who they had in mind. It wasn't Bobby, but somebody. Do something to name someone else in '68."
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It was a hit by the government of the US on their own. Just like what has been happening by the government of the US on Trump since 2016, only the press is wholly owned now. Americans couldn’t be influenced in those days to the extent they are now.
Texas was going to vote for Nixon, a Republican from California? Doesn’t seem likely.
Maybe he only got to know him well while he was VP. JFK needed a Southerner on ticket in 1960.
“about ways to maneuver around Johnson”
In a regular old murder case any detective would consider this a MOTIVE.
The 1960 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate John F. Kennedy, narrowly won the state of Texas with 50.52 percent of the vote to the Republican candidate Vice President Richard Nixon's 48.52%, a margin of two percent, giving him the state's 24 electoral votes.
Biden has him on corruption.
Eisenhower had carried Texas in both 1952 and 1956. Kennedy was Catholic, and Al Smith, a Catholic, had lost the Upper South, including Texas, in 1928. While the Democrats controlled politics at the state level, the fact that Texas and other Southern states like Tennessee and Florida were voting Republican on the national level was worrisome. That is the probable reason for Kennedy choosing Johnson as his running mater,
Because Kennedy needed a way to court the southern vote and he knew none of the Dixicrats were going to accept his courting of blacks.
LBJ was a racist POS, but he kept it under better wraps than the rest of the southern POS Democrats!
That is the ONLY reason Kennedy had him on the ticket...without LBJ Kennedy probably would have had a contested convention and would never have been president.
I am pretty sure it was one of those backroom, smoke-filled bargain deals and like usual, Americans paid the price (many with their lives in Vietnam)!!
Kennedy was in Dallas on 22 Nov. ‘63 to firm up Democrat support.
He needed a win in Texas; his victory there helped put him over in the Electoral College.
I bet JFK thought those conversations about getting rid of LBJ were private.
J Edgar Hoover had him bugged for sure—and for sure told his buddy LBJ about the conversations.
Fatal Error.
I’m old enough to remember that convention. Kennedy would not have gotten the nomination with having LBJ on the ticket. I don’t remember having any reason to hate Ladybird but then, I was living in Texas at the time.
Two decades later the Dems offer another
Mass.-Texas prez ticket...the “passionless technocrat” and “Oil Can Lloyd” go on to
win 10 states (and DC)...
Trump had Pence, so there’s that.
Someone will post it here soon enough.
Oh, and yes, in hindsight, JFK was right in that regard. There is a smart money hypothesis that JFK was indeed assassinated by the CIA on behalf of the MIC, who were Jonesing to go get into a war in Vietnam. JFK was opposed, LBJ was in favor... and already up to his eyeballs in it...
I read recently that LBJ was in the KKK at one point.
Can anyone confirm this?
...and Jackie was a snob.
JFK at the time was a Moderate , today he would be a right wing Conservative. Heoyld vomit if he saw what his party has become
I am old enough to remember hearing at the time that old man Kennedy told JFK that he didn’t mind buying the election, but “I’ll be damned if I’m gonna pay for a landslide!”
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