Lew continues his Presidents Series with his first episode on Lyndon Baines Johnson, our nation’s 36th commander-in-chief. Johnson, from his college days, displayed a completely amoral pattern of behavior that featured lies, blackmail, and election-rigging. That was just the beginning. This pattern only expanded with his power, initially as a congressional staffer, New Deal administrator, and then as a member of Congress slavishly loyal to FDR.
Later, Johnson would become a powerful Senate Majority Leader but was not likeable and probably could never have been elected president without the timely demise of JFK, something that will be explored in detail in future episodes.
You can watch this episode on Rumble at the NewsForAmerica channel.
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00:00:54 --> 00:00:56 - Welcome to the one hundred and thirty second
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00:00:59 --> 00:01:01 - My name is Lou Moore. And today,
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00:01:06 --> 00:01:07 - We've done,
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00:01:09 --> 00:01:12 - Actually, I should start in chronological order. I
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00:01:15 --> 00:01:18 - We have done five episodes on Franklin Delano
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00:01:38 --> 00:01:40 - But prior to that, we did 10
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00:01:44 --> 00:01:47 - And so now today, we are gonna turn
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00:01:51 --> 00:01:53 - I think you all know that.
00:01:53 --> 00:01:54 - Probably the most
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00:02:03 --> 00:02:06 - ascent to power of Lyndon Baines Johnson on
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00:02:10 --> 00:02:12 - the day that John f Kennedy
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00:02:15 --> 00:02:18 - And I like doing these presidential
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00:02:21 --> 00:02:23 - it it, using the presidencies
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00:02:44 --> 00:02:47 - case of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
00:02:49 --> 00:02:50 - because of the depression,
00:02:51 --> 00:02:53 - he was able to come in and create
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00:02:57 --> 00:02:58 - The most consequential
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00:03:08 --> 00:03:11 - and keep the flame of FDR alive,
00:03:12 --> 00:03:13 - but he is also the one that started
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00:03:16 --> 00:03:18 - He's also the one that was most responsible
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00:03:23 --> 00:03:25 - in the world polity.
00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 - Dwight David Eisenhower was the gatekeeper
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00:03:30 --> 00:03:33 - there is a oscillation, folks, as I've talked
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00:03:35 --> 00:03:36 - There is an oscillation
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00:03:53 --> 00:03:55 - and building world governmental institutions
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00:03:59 --> 00:04:02 - time for various reasons. The public is more
00:04:02 --> 00:04:03 - open to that,
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00:04:06 --> 00:04:08 - time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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00:04:29 --> 00:04:31 - path to total government
00:04:32 --> 00:04:34 - as opposed to the more explosive revolutionary
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00:04:35 --> 00:04:37 - the total government that the Bolsheviks
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00:04:39 --> 00:04:42 - and, in Russia or that the Chinese communist,
00:04:43 --> 00:04:45 - the path they tried under Mao.
00:04:46 --> 00:04:48 - This is a suit and tie gradualist
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00:04:52 --> 00:04:55 - just as in those other two instances and
00:04:55 --> 00:04:56 - in other two countries.
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00:05:02 --> 00:05:05 - that's the Fabian strategy to achieve total government,
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00:05:07 --> 00:05:08 - It made a huge stride
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00:05:19 --> 00:05:20 - Supreme Court
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00:05:23 --> 00:05:25 - But when John f Kennedy was elected in
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00:05:27 --> 00:05:29 - there was an expectation that, we could have
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00:05:38 --> 00:05:41 - And that's exactly what JFK said about to
00:05:41 --> 00:05:42 - do, but he was a failure,
00:05:43 --> 00:05:44 - a complete failure.
00:05:45 --> 00:05:48 - And, his vice president, which he didn't want
00:05:48 --> 00:05:49 - to have on the ticket,
00:05:50 --> 00:05:51 - his vice president,
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00:05:56 --> 00:05:57 - Lyndon Johnson,
00:05:57 --> 00:05:59 - we will talk about at length
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00:06:05 --> 00:06:06 - was, the establishment's
00:06:07 --> 00:06:08 - man in that he would do anything.
00:06:10 --> 00:06:12 - This man would do anything
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00:06:17 --> 00:06:18 - the kind of person
00:06:20 --> 00:06:22 - that our corporate masters want to work with.
00:06:22 --> 00:06:24 - And, indeed, I'm gonna call this episode
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00:06:39 --> 00:06:43 - the significance of the Johnson presidency overall is
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00:06:44 --> 00:06:45 - he took office
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00:06:50 --> 00:06:52 - was not a lone nut,
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00:07:00 --> 00:07:02 - My thesis has been, if you've, seen my
00:07:02 --> 00:07:05 - episodes or listened to my episodes on JFK,
00:07:05 --> 00:07:08 - the three in the presidential series, and then
00:07:08 --> 00:07:09 - I have another
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00:07:12 --> 00:07:13 - establishment
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00:07:16 --> 00:07:18 - It also goes into my thesis, which is,
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00:07:21 --> 00:07:23 - and he was a huge liability
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00:07:29 --> 00:07:32 - nationalist movement was emerging with tremendous strength
00:07:33 --> 00:07:34 - in the country,
00:07:35 --> 00:07:36 - and he had to be removed.
00:07:37 --> 00:07:41 - And, in his place was his vice president,
00:07:41 --> 00:07:43 - who would take his place would be his
00:07:43 --> 00:07:44 - vice president who he hated,
00:07:46 --> 00:07:47 - who would do
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00:07:54 --> 00:07:57 - but take advantage of a
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00:08:01 --> 00:08:04 - A psychological op that today, folks, a lot
00:08:04 --> 00:08:06 - of people are just not aware of,
00:08:07 --> 00:08:09 - or if they live through that era as
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00:08:12 --> 00:08:14 - they don't have an appreciation for it.
00:08:15 --> 00:08:17 - The United States in the early nineteen sixties
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00:09:02 --> 00:09:04 - in the early eighteen hundreds.
00:09:05 --> 00:09:09 - And, this first fully took effect. Eisenhower used
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00:09:13 --> 00:09:15 - Eisenhower used television
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00:09:23 --> 00:09:25 - But, by 1961,
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00:09:49 --> 00:09:52 - they created this aura around president Kennedy.
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00:10:05 --> 00:10:06 - Jackie,
00:10:07 --> 00:10:10 - and they and the little children,
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00:10:16 --> 00:10:17 - in a boring period
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00:10:23 --> 00:10:24 - And so
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00:10:35 --> 00:10:36 - He called it the new frontier.
00:10:38 --> 00:10:41 - Kennedy was going to just pick right up
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00:11:09 --> 00:11:10 - The whole internationalist
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00:11:12 --> 00:11:14 - But there was just one problem. Kennedy, they
00:11:14 --> 00:11:15 - kept his popularity
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00:11:18 --> 00:11:20 - but, and and
00:11:20 --> 00:11:22 - if you listen to my Kennedy episodes, you'll
00:11:22 --> 00:11:25 - get a in-depth picture of this, folks. Kennedy
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00:11:29 --> 00:11:32 - and by a whole lot of other people.
00:11:33 --> 00:11:33 - And
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00:11:40 --> 00:11:42 - pent up demand that could have resulted in
00:11:42 --> 00:11:45 - an, president Robert Taft in 1952,
00:11:45 --> 00:11:47 - but because of everything I discussed
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00:11:50 --> 00:11:52 - that was delayed.
00:11:53 --> 00:11:54 - That was delayed.
00:11:55 --> 00:11:56 - But the public really,
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00:12:00 --> 00:12:01 - it was masked
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00:12:04 --> 00:12:06 - by this tremendous outpouring of emotion,
00:12:07 --> 00:12:09 - by the huge role now of female
00:12:10 --> 00:12:10 - voters,
00:12:11 --> 00:12:13 - by the complete
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00:12:14 --> 00:12:17 - working in concert to mass media,
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00:12:18 --> 00:12:19 - the mythology
00:12:21 --> 00:12:23 - of the JFK White House. So, yes, he's
00:12:23 --> 00:12:24 - popular,
00:12:24 --> 00:12:26 - but there's just one problem.
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00:12:32 --> 00:12:34 - Democrats of which there were still many
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00:12:38 --> 00:12:40 - It did not like his agenda. And there
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00:12:43 --> 00:12:47 - nationalist movement around a an improbable figure in
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00:12:48 --> 00:12:51 - This senator from Texas, Barry Goldwater.
00:12:51 --> 00:12:54 - And this was a, it wasn't just a
00:12:54 --> 00:12:56 - bunch of old people saying, gee. We don't
00:12:56 --> 00:12:58 - want change and progress.
00:12:58 --> 00:13:00 - There were a ton of young people in
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00:13:04 --> 00:13:05 - across this country,
00:13:06 --> 00:13:09 - including in in probably Southern California,
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00:13:11 --> 00:13:12 - at that time
00:13:14 --> 00:13:16 - of this movement. So that is the undercurrent.
00:13:17 --> 00:13:20 - But so, guys, Kennedy can pull off the
00:13:20 --> 00:13:21 - imagery.
00:13:22 --> 00:13:23 - He can,
00:13:23 --> 00:13:26 - be the likable fellow and just a charming
00:13:26 --> 00:13:29 - fellow and almost seductive fellow
00:13:30 --> 00:13:32 - that millions of women loved
00:13:34 --> 00:13:34 - and men.
00:13:35 --> 00:13:37 - He could make us still in a country
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00:13:41 --> 00:13:43 - that was still idealistic.
00:13:43 --> 00:13:45 - He could get them to believe we were
00:13:45 --> 00:13:46 - going to reach for the stars
00:13:47 --> 00:13:48 - with the space age, and we were going
00:13:48 --> 00:13:51 - to make our bodies so much more healthier
00:13:51 --> 00:13:54 - with the president's fitness program and all these
00:13:54 --> 00:13:56 - things. People are still gung ho
00:13:57 --> 00:14:00 - for these types of initiatives out of Washington,
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 - but what's not what was not happening
00:14:03 --> 00:14:06 - was Kennedy's new frontier actual legislative
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00:14:14 --> 00:14:16 - and in their Fabian strategy believed was
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00:14:21 --> 00:14:22 - and new centralization
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00:14:26 --> 00:14:27 - in our society.
00:14:29 --> 00:14:31 - So he was failing, and he was very
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00:14:32 --> 00:14:33 - because of his
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00:14:36 --> 00:14:37 - sex life
00:14:39 --> 00:14:40 - and because
00:14:41 --> 00:14:42 - he was in terrible health and he was
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00:14:46 --> 00:14:47 - from the public.
00:14:48 --> 00:14:51 - So there was a vulnerability there, and then
00:14:51 --> 00:14:52 - there was a stall out.
00:14:54 --> 00:14:55 - And his popularity
00:14:55 --> 00:14:57 - was by 1963,
00:14:58 --> 00:14:59 - the year he was assassinated,
00:15:00 --> 00:15:01 - it was
00:15:01 --> 00:15:04 - dropping precipitously, although it was dropping from the
00:15:04 --> 00:15:05 - seventies
00:15:06 --> 00:15:08 - into the fifties. When we look at Donald
00:15:08 --> 00:15:09 - Trump today
00:15:10 --> 00:15:11 - in the thirties,
00:15:12 --> 00:15:14 - I mean, you can see the difference and
00:15:14 --> 00:15:16 - you can see, how popular
00:15:17 --> 00:15:19 - Kennedy was. But this whole mystique was built
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00:15:21 --> 00:15:22 - around him,
00:15:24 --> 00:15:25 - and then he's killed.
00:15:27 --> 00:15:28 - And it is hard
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00:15:34 --> 00:15:35 - the hysteria,
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00:15:38 --> 00:15:39 - outpouring,
00:15:40 --> 00:15:41 - the shock
00:15:42 --> 00:15:44 - that hit this country
00:15:45 --> 00:15:50 - on 11/22/1963.
00:15:53 --> 00:15:55 - I remember and this was after
00:15:56 --> 00:15:58 - the Supreme Court ruled you can no longer
00:15:58 --> 00:15:59 - pray in school.
00:16:01 --> 00:16:04 - My teacher immediately taking our entire class in
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00:16:08 --> 00:16:09 - elementary school
00:16:10 --> 00:16:10 - to the flagpole
00:16:12 --> 00:16:13 - to pray
00:16:14 --> 00:16:15 - for the Kennedy family.
00:16:16 --> 00:16:16 - And
00:16:18 --> 00:16:19 - my teacher was
00:16:20 --> 00:16:22 - not just emotional. I mean, she was almost
00:16:22 --> 00:16:25 - hysterical, and people were almost hysterical
00:16:26 --> 00:16:28 - around this country. It's hard to even describe
00:16:28 --> 00:16:29 - it, folks.
00:16:30 --> 00:16:31 - And the impact
00:16:31 --> 00:16:32 - that came after that
00:16:33 --> 00:16:36 - with a news media who now pivots
00:16:38 --> 00:16:38 - from Camelot
00:16:40 --> 00:16:42 - to the ultimate
00:16:42 --> 00:16:43 - martyrdom,
00:16:44 --> 00:16:46 - like the greatest saint almost
00:16:47 --> 00:16:48 - that ever lived.
00:16:49 --> 00:16:50 - And
00:16:50 --> 00:16:51 - the irreplaceable
00:16:52 --> 00:16:55 - person and the loss and the tragedy of
00:16:56 --> 00:16:58 - it played out day after day after day
00:16:58 --> 00:16:59 - at the same time
00:17:01 --> 00:17:03 - when Walter Cronkite and all the people in
00:17:03 --> 00:17:05 - the centralized media, which was ABC, NBC, and
00:17:05 --> 00:17:07 - CBS relay television
00:17:08 --> 00:17:10 - media in its primary the primary impact,
00:17:12 --> 00:17:14 - were building this theory
00:17:14 --> 00:17:14 - initially
00:17:16 --> 00:17:19 - that the right wing killed Kennedy and that
00:17:19 --> 00:17:22 - Barry Goldwater was a dangerous extremist.
00:17:23 --> 00:17:25 - And even if the right wing didn't kill
00:17:25 --> 00:17:28 - Kennedy, they the right wing created this atmosphere
00:17:28 --> 00:17:30 - in Dallas. You still read some of this
00:17:30 --> 00:17:30 - stuff
00:17:32 --> 00:17:34 - today. The city of hate. I saw some
00:17:34 --> 00:17:35 - advertisement,
00:17:35 --> 00:17:36 - last night
00:17:37 --> 00:17:38 - for some new movie.
00:17:39 --> 00:17:40 - I think it's a movie.
00:17:41 --> 00:17:43 - It was a documentary about
00:17:44 --> 00:17:46 - Dallas in 1963,
00:17:46 --> 00:17:47 - the city of hate.
00:17:48 --> 00:17:50 - That was so terrible and so terrible
00:17:51 --> 00:17:52 - how they contributed at minimum
00:17:53 --> 00:17:55 - to an atmosphere where our
00:17:55 --> 00:17:58 - sainted president, our Camelot fairy tale president that
00:17:58 --> 00:18:00 - was going to save the world,
00:18:02 --> 00:18:04 - who asked us, ask not what your country
00:18:04 --> 00:18:06 - can do for you, but what you can
00:18:06 --> 00:18:07 - do for your country.
00:18:09 --> 00:18:11 - And, of course, he omit the next line
00:18:11 --> 00:18:14 - in that speech, which is his plea for
00:18:14 --> 00:18:15 - world citizenship.
00:18:16 --> 00:18:18 - Well, we don't hear as much about that
00:18:18 --> 00:18:18 - now.
00:18:19 --> 00:18:20 - Not nearly.
00:18:20 --> 00:18:21 - But, anyway,
00:18:22 --> 00:18:24 - there's all this buildup
00:18:25 --> 00:18:27 - of Kennedy and now the president of The
00:18:27 --> 00:18:28 - United States.
00:18:29 --> 00:18:31 - Is this improbable,
00:18:32 --> 00:18:32 - corrupt,
00:18:34 --> 00:18:35 - unattractive,
00:18:36 --> 00:18:37 - a bully,
00:18:38 --> 00:18:40 - a a womanizer
00:18:40 --> 00:18:42 - on the same level as Kennedy, but a
00:18:42 --> 00:18:45 - much smarter one. We'll talk more about that
00:18:45 --> 00:18:47 - as we get into this episode.
00:18:48 --> 00:18:50 - This man that Kennedy hated.
00:18:51 --> 00:18:53 - It was not a beloved figure anywhere
00:18:54 --> 00:18:54 - anywhere
00:18:55 --> 00:18:58 - and not really a respected figure anywhere outside
00:18:58 --> 00:19:00 - the US senate where he ran that institution
00:19:01 --> 00:19:04 - with an iron fist, the most effective every
00:19:04 --> 00:19:05 - historian says this,
00:19:06 --> 00:19:08 - and I'm not arguing with it, the most
00:19:08 --> 00:19:10 - effective majority leader ever
00:19:11 --> 00:19:12 - in the United States Senate,
00:19:13 --> 00:19:14 - this man,
00:19:15 --> 00:19:15 - Lyndon
00:19:16 --> 00:19:17 - Baines Johnson.
00:19:19 --> 00:19:20 - And now I wanna,
00:19:21 --> 00:19:23 - before we go any farther, because I don't
00:19:23 --> 00:19:24 - wanna forget to do this,
00:19:25 --> 00:19:28 - I want to express a very real concern
00:19:28 --> 00:19:29 - about today,
00:19:30 --> 00:19:32 - not about 1963,
00:19:32 --> 00:19:34 - not about Lyndon Johnson, John f Kennedy historical
00:19:34 --> 00:19:35 - figures,
00:19:35 --> 00:19:35 - about
00:19:36 --> 00:19:36 - today.
00:19:38 --> 00:19:39 - Our world today
00:19:39 --> 00:19:42 - with president Donald John Trump in the White
00:19:42 --> 00:19:45 - House and this war simmering still
00:19:45 --> 00:19:46 - in Iran.
00:19:49 --> 00:19:50 - In 1916,
00:19:50 --> 00:19:52 - Woodrow Wilson ran for president of The United
00:19:52 --> 00:19:54 - States while World War one was raging,
00:19:56 --> 00:19:57 - and he said,
00:19:58 --> 00:20:00 - I will keep you out of war.
00:20:01 --> 00:20:03 - And that was his campaign slogan. He kept
00:20:03 --> 00:20:06 - us out of war. That was his campaign
00:20:06 --> 00:20:08 - slogan, folks, in the, presidential
00:20:09 --> 00:20:11 - election of nineteen sixteen.
00:20:11 --> 00:20:12 - Look it up.
00:20:13 --> 00:20:14 - What happened
00:20:14 --> 00:20:15 - right after that election?
00:20:16 --> 00:20:17 - What happened?
00:20:18 --> 00:20:19 - By 1917,
00:20:20 --> 00:20:22 - there are hundreds of thousands of what they
00:20:22 --> 00:20:23 - called the doughboys,
00:20:24 --> 00:20:25 - American troops
00:20:25 --> 00:20:27 - pouring into Europe,
00:20:27 --> 00:20:30 - getting in the middle of that meat grinder
00:20:30 --> 00:20:32 - of a war that actually
00:20:33 --> 00:20:35 - is the biggest reason why western civilization
00:20:36 --> 00:20:39 - is under threat of extinction
00:20:40 --> 00:20:41 - today.
00:20:42 --> 00:20:43 - The topic of my,
00:20:44 --> 00:20:46 - last episode, which was two weeks ago. I
00:20:46 --> 00:20:47 - had to repay and play it last week.
00:20:47 --> 00:20:48 - But, anyway,
00:20:49 --> 00:20:50 - World War one.
00:20:52 --> 00:20:55 - Election of nineteen forty, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
00:20:57 --> 00:20:59 - These are all Democrats, folks. Oh, no. Only
00:20:59 --> 00:21:01 - Democrats do this. In 1940,
00:21:02 --> 00:21:05 - what did Roosevelt campaign on? And he's running
00:21:05 --> 00:21:07 - for a third term, kinda dicey.
00:21:07 --> 00:21:10 - He campaigned on the fact that he had
00:21:10 --> 00:21:12 - kept us out of what was the beginnings
00:21:12 --> 00:21:14 - of World War two. He went all over
00:21:14 --> 00:21:15 - this country
00:21:16 --> 00:21:18 - telling people that he would not let your
00:21:18 --> 00:21:21 - boys go over and fight in these wars
00:21:21 --> 00:21:22 - and go over to Europe,
00:21:23 --> 00:21:24 - go to
00:21:24 --> 00:21:25 - Asia.
00:21:25 --> 00:21:26 - And what did he do
00:21:27 --> 00:21:28 - right after he got elected?
00:21:29 --> 00:21:31 - He did everything he could to egg on
00:21:31 --> 00:21:35 - the Germans and the Japanese, and by 12/07/1941,
00:21:36 --> 00:21:37 - we are in World War two.
00:21:38 --> 00:21:39 - That's a story unto itself.
00:21:42 --> 00:21:43 - 1964.
00:21:44 --> 00:21:46 - Pertinent to the episode now as we're gonna
00:21:46 --> 00:21:48 - go forward with Lyndon Johnson. 1964.
00:21:49 --> 00:21:52 - Lyndon Johnson is running against this populist national
00:21:52 --> 00:21:55 - rebellion I just alluded to, running against Barry
00:21:55 --> 00:21:56 - Goldwater,
00:21:56 --> 00:21:57 - running with the martyrdom
00:21:58 --> 00:21:58 - program
00:21:59 --> 00:22:00 - that I just described
00:22:01 --> 00:22:01 - or began
00:22:02 --> 00:22:03 - beginning to describe
00:22:05 --> 00:22:07 - because of, the popularity of JFK.
00:22:08 --> 00:22:10 - And he said, I don't want
00:22:11 --> 00:22:11 - our boys
00:22:12 --> 00:22:15 - to go over and do what the Asian
00:22:15 --> 00:22:16 - boys should be doing
00:22:16 --> 00:22:17 - in Vietnam.
00:22:19 --> 00:22:22 - That was what he said. That was in
00:22:22 --> 00:22:24 - every campaign speech he made, in every town
00:22:24 --> 00:22:26 - he made a campaign speech in.
00:22:27 --> 00:22:29 - And what did he do right after the
00:22:29 --> 00:22:30 - election?
00:22:31 --> 00:22:32 - We all know.
00:22:33 --> 00:22:34 - 500
00:22:34 --> 00:22:35 - troops
00:22:37 --> 00:22:38 - by the time we get to the peak
00:22:38 --> 00:22:39 - of it.
00:22:39 --> 00:22:41 - Sent to Vietnam
00:22:43 --> 00:22:45 - in one of our most probably our most
00:22:45 --> 00:22:46 - famous,
00:22:46 --> 00:22:48 - seemingly endless and losing
00:22:49 --> 00:22:50 - war that did
00:22:52 --> 00:22:53 - nothing for America.
00:22:54 --> 00:22:56 - So now my point,
00:22:57 --> 00:23:00 - this little vignette, we are now in 2026.
00:23:01 --> 00:23:02 - We're not in a presidential
00:23:02 --> 00:23:05 - election, but we are in a nationalized congressional
00:23:05 --> 00:23:07 - election, as I said, two or three weeks
00:23:07 --> 00:23:10 - ago, and Donald Trump is nationalizing it in
00:23:10 --> 00:23:13 - every way he can and say and saying
00:23:13 --> 00:23:14 - pretend like I'm on the ballot,
00:23:15 --> 00:23:16 - which in some ways I think is a
00:23:16 --> 00:23:18 - disaster in itself for the Republicans.
00:23:20 --> 00:23:20 - But,
00:23:21 --> 00:23:23 - because the people who have traditionally
00:23:23 --> 00:23:25 - been the most loyal to Trump are not
00:23:25 --> 00:23:28 - the best off year voters. They're terrible
00:23:29 --> 00:23:29 - as a group,
00:23:30 --> 00:23:33 - not individuals, but as a group behavior.
00:23:34 --> 00:23:37 - And so one of the strategies besides bombing
00:23:38 --> 00:23:40 - this campaign with money, which they haven't done
00:23:40 --> 00:23:42 - yet, but they got it. Yeah. They're I
00:23:42 --> 00:23:44 - don't know what's going on with that. We'll
00:23:44 --> 00:23:46 - get into that in another episode.
00:23:46 --> 00:23:49 - But Trump is nationalizing this election. The Democrats
00:23:49 --> 00:23:50 - have nationalized.
00:23:50 --> 00:23:52 - The Republicans are all followers of Trump, blah
00:23:52 --> 00:23:54 - blah blah blah blah.
00:23:54 --> 00:23:56 - And the White House, every signal is,
00:23:57 --> 00:24:00 - you know, we're gonna have peace with Iran.
00:24:00 --> 00:24:01 - We're they are defeated.
00:24:02 --> 00:24:04 - So we have the leverage. It's just a
00:24:04 --> 00:24:06 - matter of time before this will be over
00:24:06 --> 00:24:09 - with because we've won.
00:24:10 --> 00:24:12 - Well, we haven't won.
00:24:12 --> 00:24:13 - That's ridiculous.
00:24:15 --> 00:24:18 - And watch their hands, folks.
00:24:19 --> 00:24:22 - Watch their hands. I'm very concerned
00:24:23 --> 00:24:25 - about what's gonna happen after this election in
00:24:25 --> 00:24:27 - the Mid East when the
00:24:27 --> 00:24:29 - outsized influence of Israel
00:24:29 --> 00:24:31 - has not been dealt with.
00:24:32 --> 00:24:34 - So we are gonna get back to now
00:24:34 --> 00:24:35 - to Lyndon Baines Johnson
00:24:37 --> 00:24:38 - right after the news.
00:24:39 --> 00:24:42 - You are listening to Hour of Decision
00:24:42 --> 00:24:44 - on Liberty News Radio, and my name
00:24:45 --> 00:24:46 - is Lou Moore.
00:24:57 --> 00:24:58 - Second half
00:25:00 --> 00:25:01 - of the hour of
00:25:02 --> 00:25:04 - Decision with Lou Moore
00:25:06 --> 00:25:08 - starts right now.
00:25:13 --> 00:25:15 - Welcome back to Hour of Decision. My name
00:25:15 --> 00:25:18 - is Lou Moore. We are talking about Lyndon
00:25:18 --> 00:25:19 - Baines Johnson,
00:25:19 --> 00:25:21 - his unlimited
00:25:21 --> 00:25:22 - hunger
00:25:22 --> 00:25:23 - for power.
00:25:23 --> 00:25:27 - This is the beginning of my Johnson series
00:25:28 --> 00:25:29 - within my presidential
00:25:30 --> 00:25:33 - series. As I said, we, we've done Franklin
00:25:33 --> 00:25:35 - Delano Roosevelt five episodes. Look them up in
00:25:35 --> 00:25:38 - my archives at libertynewsradio.com.
00:25:38 --> 00:25:40 - We did one on Harry Truman,
00:25:41 --> 00:25:43 - 10 on Dwight David Eisenhower,
00:25:44 --> 00:25:46 - and I've done really overall five episodes,
00:25:46 --> 00:25:49 - related in some way to John Fitzgerald
00:25:50 --> 00:25:50 - Kennedy.
00:25:51 --> 00:25:53 - So now we're moving from Kennedy,
00:25:54 --> 00:25:57 - and we're gonna talk further about the transition,
00:25:57 --> 00:26:00 - the very bloody, messy transition
00:26:00 --> 00:26:01 - from Kennedy to Johnson
00:26:03 --> 00:26:04 - and the explosion
00:26:04 --> 00:26:06 - of government. The explosion
00:26:06 --> 00:26:09 - of the Fabian project, which had been kind
00:26:09 --> 00:26:10 - of
00:26:10 --> 00:26:13 - vibrating in the corner, waiting for the opportunity
00:26:14 --> 00:26:16 - under the gate great gatekeeper
00:26:16 --> 00:26:17 - Eisenhower
00:26:17 --> 00:26:21 - keeping the conservatives and the populace, the nationalists
00:26:21 --> 00:26:21 - at bay.
00:26:23 --> 00:26:24 - It will now,
00:26:25 --> 00:26:26 - as we chronicle
00:26:26 --> 00:26:29 - this presidency, it will once again explode.
00:26:31 --> 00:26:34 - At least the second biggest explosion of big
00:26:34 --> 00:26:35 - government
00:26:35 --> 00:26:37 - in the history of our country, if not
00:26:37 --> 00:26:37 - first.
00:26:38 --> 00:26:40 - If not number one, even,
00:26:41 --> 00:26:42 - more than the new deal.
00:26:43 --> 00:26:44 - And we talked about,
00:26:45 --> 00:26:47 - we talked a little bit about the chicanery
00:26:47 --> 00:26:50 - that, many presidents, including Johnson, is
00:26:51 --> 00:26:53 - engaged in in terms of waiting for an
00:26:53 --> 00:26:55 - election to be over with before the troops
00:26:57 --> 00:26:59 - are put on the ground in large numbers.
00:26:59 --> 00:27:00 - But, anyway,
00:27:01 --> 00:27:02 - I'm not gonna talk anymore about that. We'll
00:27:02 --> 00:27:05 - get back to Johnson's story. So now what
00:27:05 --> 00:27:06 - I'm gonna do
00:27:06 --> 00:27:09 - is, I'm gonna back up a little bit
00:27:09 --> 00:27:11 - so we talk a little bit more and
00:27:11 --> 00:27:13 - get a little bit of a picture
00:27:14 --> 00:27:15 - of who,
00:27:15 --> 00:27:18 - the heck exactly Lyndon Baines Johnson
00:27:19 --> 00:27:19 - was,
00:27:20 --> 00:27:21 - his character,
00:27:22 --> 00:27:23 - some of his history.
00:27:25 --> 00:27:28 - So I'm gonna now go to a manuscript
00:27:28 --> 00:27:29 - I wrote.
00:27:30 --> 00:27:32 - There's also a couple of quotes from
00:27:33 --> 00:27:36 - famous historians that I quote in this manuscript.
00:27:36 --> 00:27:37 - I'm gonna go right to it,
00:27:37 --> 00:27:39 - talking about the beginnings of Lyndon
00:27:40 --> 00:27:41 - Johnson.
00:27:42 --> 00:27:44 - A hunger for power
00:27:45 --> 00:27:46 - and a pension for fraud.
00:27:47 --> 00:27:50 - It was another, quote, day at the office
00:27:51 --> 00:27:54 - for a certain young congressional staffer and political
00:27:54 --> 00:27:56 - operative working West
00:27:56 --> 00:27:57 - San Antonio,
00:27:57 --> 00:27:58 - Texas.
00:28:01 --> 00:28:03 - His candidate, an incumbent congressman,
00:28:04 --> 00:28:07 - was a Democrat with the improbable name of
00:28:07 --> 00:28:09 - Maury Maverick.
00:28:10 --> 00:28:12 - In 1934,
00:28:12 --> 00:28:15 - the campaign worker was sitting at a table
00:28:16 --> 00:28:17 - at the Plaza Hotel.
00:28:19 --> 00:28:21 - What was he doing there? He was issuing
00:28:21 --> 00:28:22 - $5
00:28:22 --> 00:28:23 - bills
00:28:24 --> 00:28:26 - that he had piled high in front of
00:28:26 --> 00:28:26 - him.
00:28:28 --> 00:28:29 - Sullen faced Mexicans,
00:28:30 --> 00:28:33 - well familiar with the process unfolding,
00:28:33 --> 00:28:35 - lined up at the table,
00:28:36 --> 00:28:37 - and each one was handed
00:28:38 --> 00:28:39 - one or more bills
00:28:40 --> 00:28:41 - in the sleazy
00:28:42 --> 00:28:42 - transaction.
00:28:44 --> 00:28:47 - The campaign was paying $5 for each member
00:28:47 --> 00:28:48 - of a family
00:28:48 --> 00:28:51 - pledging to vote the straight Democrat ticket.
00:28:53 --> 00:28:54 - This pledge
00:28:55 --> 00:28:58 - often required a, quote, poll worker, unquote,
00:28:59 --> 00:29:01 - to accompany them into the voting booth
00:29:02 --> 00:29:02 - to verify
00:29:03 --> 00:29:05 - another straight ticket vote
00:29:06 --> 00:29:07 - for the Democrats.
00:29:09 --> 00:29:11 - And, yes, folks, the staffer at the bribery
00:29:11 --> 00:29:12 - table
00:29:12 --> 00:29:14 - was Lyndon Baines Johnson.
00:29:15 --> 00:29:16 - LBJ,
00:29:16 --> 00:29:18 - as he liked to be called,
00:29:18 --> 00:29:21 - rose beyond such low level sortedness
00:29:23 --> 00:29:25 - to much more significant
00:29:25 --> 00:29:25 - corruption,
00:29:26 --> 00:29:28 - first as a congressman.
00:29:30 --> 00:29:30 - Actually,
00:29:31 --> 00:29:32 - I will correct my own manuscript.
00:29:33 --> 00:29:35 - First as an official in the New Deal,
00:29:36 --> 00:29:37 - then as a congressman,
00:29:38 --> 00:29:40 - then as a US senator, then as the
00:29:40 --> 00:29:42 - senate majority leader,
00:29:42 --> 00:29:45 - then as vice president of The United States,
00:29:45 --> 00:29:46 - and finally,
00:29:47 --> 00:29:48 - by fate,
00:29:49 --> 00:29:50 - maybe,
00:29:50 --> 00:29:52 - president of The United States
00:29:53 --> 00:29:56 - Of America. And, yes, Lyndon was corrupt,
00:29:57 --> 00:29:59 - but it wasn't being caught in the middle
00:29:59 --> 00:30:01 - of accepted political practices
00:30:03 --> 00:30:04 - because for LBJ,
00:30:05 --> 00:30:07 - it was a lifelong pursuit.
00:30:08 --> 00:30:10 - His Pulitzer Prize winning biographer,
00:30:11 --> 00:30:12 - Robert Caro,
00:30:13 --> 00:30:15 - tells us how Johnson possessed, quote,
00:30:17 --> 00:30:20 - a hunger for power in its most naked
00:30:20 --> 00:30:21 - form.
00:30:22 --> 00:30:24 - For power not to improve the lives of
00:30:24 --> 00:30:25 - others,
00:30:25 --> 00:30:26 - but to manipulate
00:30:27 --> 00:30:31 - and dominate them, to bend them to his
00:30:31 --> 00:30:31 - will.
00:30:32 --> 00:30:34 - For the more one learns
00:30:35 --> 00:30:36 - from his family,
00:30:36 --> 00:30:38 - his childhood playmates,
00:30:39 --> 00:30:40 - his first assistants,
00:30:42 --> 00:30:45 - and his congressional colleagues. The more one learns
00:30:45 --> 00:30:48 - about Lyndon Johnson, the more it becomes apparent.
00:30:49 --> 00:30:52 - Not only that this con hunger was a
00:30:52 --> 00:30:53 - constant
00:30:54 --> 00:30:55 - throughout his life,
00:30:56 --> 00:30:58 - but that it was a hunger so fierce
00:30:59 --> 00:31:02 - and consuming that no consideration
00:31:02 --> 00:31:04 - of morality or ethics
00:31:05 --> 00:31:07 - so I'm gonna say it again. No consideration
00:31:08 --> 00:31:10 - of morality or ethics.
00:31:10 --> 00:31:13 - No cost to himself or to anyone else
00:31:14 --> 00:31:16 - could stand before it,
00:31:17 --> 00:31:17 - unquote.
00:31:19 --> 00:31:23 - Johnson stole his first election at college
00:31:24 --> 00:31:25 - in 1930.
00:31:26 --> 00:31:29 - He won a second election there by blackmailing
00:31:31 --> 00:31:32 - a young woman.
00:31:34 --> 00:31:35 - Allegations of ballot shenanigans
00:31:36 --> 00:31:37 - swirled around his first
00:31:38 --> 00:31:40 - election to the senate in 1948.
00:31:40 --> 00:31:42 - And, folks, it's more than that now.
00:31:44 --> 00:31:45 - Even since I wrote I wrote this in
00:31:45 --> 00:31:47 - 2009,
00:31:48 --> 00:31:50 - there I've actually been people step forward since
00:31:50 --> 00:31:52 - then as witnesses
00:31:53 --> 00:31:54 - to the steal
00:31:55 --> 00:31:57 - that caused him to become a United States
00:31:57 --> 00:32:00 - Senator in 1948.
00:32:02 --> 00:32:05 - And as Kennedy's running mate in 1960, there
00:32:05 --> 00:32:08 - were counties along the Mexican border
00:32:09 --> 00:32:10 - long controlled by LBJ
00:32:11 --> 00:32:14 - where the, these are the, primarily
00:32:15 --> 00:32:16 - Mexican
00:32:17 --> 00:32:17 - Hispanic,
00:32:18 --> 00:32:21 - Rio Grande Valley counties along the border
00:32:23 --> 00:32:25 - where the Kennedy Johnson ticket got more votes
00:32:26 --> 00:32:29 - than there were registered voters. Does that sound
00:32:29 --> 00:32:29 - familiar?
00:32:30 --> 00:32:31 - Excuse me.
00:32:32 --> 00:32:36 - He was so despised and distrusted at college
00:32:37 --> 00:32:39 - that he acquired the name
00:32:39 --> 00:32:40 - Bull,
00:32:41 --> 00:32:42 - which was short for
00:32:43 --> 00:32:44 - bullshit.
00:32:45 --> 00:32:47 - And ending his political career,
00:32:48 --> 00:32:50 - his lies about Vietnam
00:32:51 --> 00:32:53 - would destroy the bipartisan
00:32:53 --> 00:32:55 - foreign policy consensus,
00:32:56 --> 00:32:58 - force him from office,
00:32:59 --> 00:33:01 - and rip the Democrats
00:33:01 --> 00:33:02 - asunder
00:33:03 --> 00:33:06 - in 1968.
00:33:09 --> 00:33:11 - And I will add to the manuscript.
00:33:13 --> 00:33:16 - He's also credibly been accused of murder
00:33:17 --> 00:33:18 - of several individuals,
00:33:19 --> 00:33:20 - and that's not even counting.
00:33:22 --> 00:33:23 - What the heck actually happened
00:33:24 --> 00:33:28 - on 11/22/1963
00:33:29 --> 00:33:31 - when John f Kennedy was murdered
00:33:31 --> 00:33:35 - and Lyndon Johnson became the most powerful man
00:33:36 --> 00:33:37 - on Earth
00:33:38 --> 00:33:39 - as a result.
00:33:42 --> 00:33:45 - LBJ's lust for power was accompanied
00:33:45 --> 00:33:47 - by an uncanny ability
00:33:48 --> 00:33:49 - to keep a secret
00:33:51 --> 00:33:54 - coupled with an acumen for lying his head
00:33:54 --> 00:33:55 - off
00:33:55 --> 00:33:56 - convincingly
00:33:57 --> 00:33:57 - and often
00:33:58 --> 00:33:59 - in great detail.
00:34:00 --> 00:34:04 - Johnson created his own history of his youth.
00:34:05 --> 00:34:07 - His time at college was obscured by missing
00:34:07 --> 00:34:08 - back issues
00:34:09 --> 00:34:12 - of the school newspaper and pages removed
00:34:14 --> 00:34:15 - from his college yearbook.
00:34:17 --> 00:34:19 - His narrative of his life could be incredibly
00:34:20 --> 00:34:21 - detailed and complex
00:34:22 --> 00:34:24 - without coming anywhere near
00:34:25 --> 00:34:26 - actual
00:34:26 --> 00:34:27 - occurrences.
00:34:31 --> 00:34:32 - In 1931,
00:34:33 --> 00:34:36 - Lyndon Johnson's father, who was an alcoholic
00:34:38 --> 00:34:39 - and kind of a ne'er do well on
00:34:39 --> 00:34:42 - one level, but also a state senator on
00:34:42 --> 00:34:43 - another level,
00:34:44 --> 00:34:47 - his father got him a Capitol Hill job
00:34:47 --> 00:34:48 - as a principal staffer
00:34:50 --> 00:34:51 - for a fellow named Kleinberg,
00:34:53 --> 00:34:56 - who's a little bit interesting himself, congressman Kleinberg,
00:34:56 --> 00:34:57 - because
00:34:58 --> 00:34:59 - he owned
00:35:00 --> 00:35:01 - the King Ranch.
00:35:02 --> 00:35:05 - I'm talking about the King Ranch, folks, not
00:35:05 --> 00:35:07 - a ranch called King Ranch. The one they
00:35:07 --> 00:35:09 - named the four pickup trucks after.
00:35:10 --> 00:35:12 - One of the biggest ranches
00:35:12 --> 00:35:13 - in the history,
00:35:14 --> 00:35:17 - developed and run-in the history of our country.
00:35:19 --> 00:35:21 - Soon, Johnson rigged an election
00:35:22 --> 00:35:25 - held by the Congressional Staffers Association to become
00:35:25 --> 00:35:26 - their president.
00:35:29 --> 00:35:31 - There are stories about Johnson that, when he
00:35:31 --> 00:35:33 - first got to Washington DC, he's at a,
00:35:33 --> 00:35:34 - he's
00:35:34 --> 00:35:36 - in a kind of not a dorm, but
00:35:37 --> 00:35:37 - in a,
00:35:38 --> 00:35:40 - house full of different congressional staffers.
00:35:41 --> 00:35:42 - And he lurked,
00:35:43 --> 00:35:44 - by the,
00:35:44 --> 00:35:45 - bathroom,
00:35:45 --> 00:35:46 - by the showers
00:35:47 --> 00:35:50 - in the morning, pretending like he was waiting
00:35:50 --> 00:35:52 - in line to get in there next. So
00:35:52 --> 00:35:54 - he could ingratiate himself, meet, and start to
00:35:54 --> 00:35:57 - find out what it would take to ingratiate
00:35:57 --> 00:36:00 - himself. But every single other congressional staffer
00:36:00 --> 00:36:02 - that that was rooming,
00:36:03 --> 00:36:04 - in this building,
00:36:04 --> 00:36:05 - it's unbelievable,
00:36:05 --> 00:36:07 - folks. I mean, he was
00:36:08 --> 00:36:08 - unbelievable.
00:36:11 --> 00:36:14 - Soon, as a young congressional staffer, he ingratiated
00:36:14 --> 00:36:16 - himself with a fellow Texan
00:36:17 --> 00:36:18 - and future
00:36:19 --> 00:36:21 - speaker of the house,
00:36:22 --> 00:36:24 - Sam Rayburn, one of the most powerful
00:36:25 --> 00:36:27 - house speakers in the history
00:36:28 --> 00:36:29 - of our country.
00:36:30 --> 00:36:31 - And Rayburn was childless,
00:36:32 --> 00:36:33 - but soon,
00:36:33 --> 00:36:37 - he began treating Lyndon Johnson like his son.
00:36:38 --> 00:36:40 - Rayburn prevailed on FDR
00:36:42 --> 00:36:45 - to make Lyndon Johnson the youngest state director
00:36:45 --> 00:36:47 - of the National Youth
00:36:47 --> 00:36:48 - associate,
00:36:48 --> 00:36:51 - or administration. Excuse me. National Youth Administration,
00:36:51 --> 00:36:54 - the NYA, one of the many, many, many,
00:36:54 --> 00:36:55 - many
00:36:56 --> 00:36:59 - New Deal agencies that Johnson created, unconstitutionally.
00:37:01 --> 00:37:03 - Anyway, he made him a state director in
00:37:03 --> 00:37:04 - 1935,
00:37:04 --> 00:37:05 - which gave LBJ
00:37:06 --> 00:37:09 - a platform at such a young age with
00:37:09 --> 00:37:11 - with the connections he already had
00:37:11 --> 00:37:12 - to distribute
00:37:13 --> 00:37:13 - patronage.
00:37:14 --> 00:37:15 - Because, folks,
00:37:16 --> 00:37:18 - that's what socialism is all about.
00:37:19 --> 00:37:21 - I've said this on this show many times.
00:37:21 --> 00:37:21 - Socialism
00:37:22 --> 00:37:23 - is corruption.
00:37:24 --> 00:37:25 - You're taking money
00:37:26 --> 00:37:27 - from one person
00:37:28 --> 00:37:30 - and you're giving it to another.
00:37:31 --> 00:37:33 - That's what socialism is,
00:37:33 --> 00:37:34 - period.
00:37:35 --> 00:37:37 - And the people who are doing the taking
00:37:37 --> 00:37:38 - and the giving
00:37:40 --> 00:37:41 - give
00:37:45 --> 00:37:45 - it.
00:37:46 --> 00:37:49 - It's human nature, folks, but it's also conspiratorial,
00:37:50 --> 00:37:51 - in my opinion.
00:37:52 --> 00:37:56 - It it's all about centralizing and increasing more
00:37:56 --> 00:37:58 - power of this to the system and to
00:37:58 --> 00:38:01 - all of the principal players in it. So
00:38:01 --> 00:38:04 - Johnson is already now in this game.
00:38:05 --> 00:38:06 - He is now distributing
00:38:07 --> 00:38:08 - funds.
00:38:08 --> 00:38:09 - He is
00:38:09 --> 00:38:11 - distributing power or patronage
00:38:13 --> 00:38:15 - from the state capital at Austin.
00:38:17 --> 00:38:18 - Johnson also,
00:38:19 --> 00:38:21 - during this time, was cultivating the relatively
00:38:21 --> 00:38:22 - conservative
00:38:22 --> 00:38:23 - Texan
00:38:24 --> 00:38:24 - while he's,
00:38:25 --> 00:38:27 - pledging total fealty to the New Deal.
00:38:28 --> 00:38:32 - John Nance Garner, actually an enemy of FDR,
00:38:32 --> 00:38:33 - who,
00:38:34 --> 00:38:36 - Roosevelt put on the ticket
00:38:36 --> 00:38:38 - in 1936
00:38:39 --> 00:38:41 - to be his vice president to get more,
00:38:41 --> 00:38:43 - the conservative wing of the Democrat party, keep
00:38:43 --> 00:38:44 - them in line.
00:38:45 --> 00:38:47 - And Garner then would wanna run against Roosevelt
00:38:47 --> 00:38:50 - in '40. But anyway, also, Johnson also butting
00:38:50 --> 00:38:52 - up to him and all of his business
00:38:52 --> 00:38:52 - contacts.
00:38:54 --> 00:38:56 - A whole another part of the Johnson story.
00:38:58 --> 00:39:00 - Two years after this,
00:39:01 --> 00:39:02 - in 1938,
00:39:04 --> 00:39:05 - Johnson, who was a vocal
00:39:06 --> 00:39:08 - and militant new dealer,
00:39:11 --> 00:39:14 - was elected to congress and became in the
00:39:14 --> 00:39:14 - house
00:39:15 --> 00:39:17 - an ardent defender of FDR.
00:39:17 --> 00:39:18 - Now
00:39:18 --> 00:39:21 - you could say, well, all these democrat congressmen,
00:39:21 --> 00:39:23 - they are they're probably all pretty ardent defenders
00:39:23 --> 00:39:24 - of FDR.
00:39:25 --> 00:39:27 - Not true, folks. Not remember we talked about
00:39:27 --> 00:39:30 - this or maybe you listened to my episode
00:39:30 --> 00:39:32 - on FDR where I talk about
00:39:33 --> 00:39:35 - that by 1938,
00:39:37 --> 00:39:39 - conservative Democrats, particularly southern
00:39:39 --> 00:39:40 - Democrats,
00:39:41 --> 00:39:41 - Texas
00:39:41 --> 00:39:42 - Democrats,
00:39:43 --> 00:39:45 - were done with the New Deal.
00:39:46 --> 00:39:48 - They were done with the New Deal,
00:39:48 --> 00:39:50 - and they were shutting off
00:39:51 --> 00:39:54 - Roosevelt's ability to grow it any further.
00:39:55 --> 00:39:57 - That's why he had to pivot to war.
00:39:57 --> 00:39:58 - I have a whole episode on this.
00:40:00 --> 00:40:02 - So during this time when so many Democrats,
00:40:03 --> 00:40:04 - particularly in the South,
00:40:05 --> 00:40:06 - which would include Texas,
00:40:07 --> 00:40:08 - are kind of abandoning
00:40:08 --> 00:40:10 - f b FDR,
00:40:10 --> 00:40:13 - not the party, but FDR and the New
00:40:13 --> 00:40:13 - Deal,
00:40:14 --> 00:40:18 - Johnson is taking one vote after another, standing
00:40:18 --> 00:40:20 - tall for Roosevelt. And Roosevelt,
00:40:21 --> 00:40:22 - by now,
00:40:23 --> 00:40:26 - is he's put his, fixer who has also
00:40:26 --> 00:40:26 - had
00:40:27 --> 00:40:29 - a couple of guest appearances on hour of
00:40:29 --> 00:40:29 - decision.
00:40:30 --> 00:40:31 - Tommy the Cork
00:40:31 --> 00:40:32 - Kerkorian
00:40:33 --> 00:40:35 - is now taking care of some of Johnson's
00:40:36 --> 00:40:36 - needs,
00:40:37 --> 00:40:38 - the big fixer. He's the man
00:40:40 --> 00:40:41 - in the new deal, folks.
00:40:42 --> 00:40:44 - Look him up. Tommy the Cork Kerkorian.
00:40:46 --> 00:40:48 - And so Johnson is in.
00:40:49 --> 00:40:50 - He is in
00:40:50 --> 00:40:52 - with Franklin Delano Roosevelt
00:40:52 --> 00:40:53 - completely
00:40:54 --> 00:40:55 - by the time
00:40:55 --> 00:40:57 - he is, himself
00:40:57 --> 00:40:59 - been elected to Congress.
00:41:01 --> 00:41:03 - LBJ's talents and connections, as well as his
00:41:03 --> 00:41:04 - cheerleading,
00:41:06 --> 00:41:08 - caught the eye of the great master Franklin
00:41:08 --> 00:41:10 - Delano Roosevelt early on.
00:41:11 --> 00:41:14 - Historian Thomas Fleming recites an incident where Johnson
00:41:14 --> 00:41:16 - is sitting with Roosevelt
00:41:16 --> 00:41:17 - in the Oval Office,
00:41:19 --> 00:41:21 - and FDR is talking on the phone improbably
00:41:23 --> 00:41:24 - to the recently
00:41:24 --> 00:41:25 - sacked,
00:41:26 --> 00:41:27 - fired,
00:41:28 --> 00:41:29 - and very unhappy
00:41:29 --> 00:41:32 - former ambassador to The United Kingdom.
00:41:33 --> 00:41:36 - That man was named Joseph p Kennedy, folks.
00:41:36 --> 00:41:36 - That's JFK's
00:41:37 --> 00:41:37 - dad.
00:41:38 --> 00:41:41 - So Johnson's sitting in the Oval while Roosevelt
00:41:42 --> 00:41:43 - is talking
00:41:43 --> 00:41:45 - to Joe Kennedy.
00:41:46 --> 00:41:47 - And, of course, Roosevelt,
00:41:48 --> 00:41:49 - being the master,
00:41:50 --> 00:41:51 - politician he
00:41:51 --> 00:41:52 - is, is flattering
00:41:53 --> 00:41:53 - Kennedy,
00:41:55 --> 00:41:57 - trying to smooth the ruffled feathers, inviting him
00:41:57 --> 00:41:58 - to dinner.
00:41:59 --> 00:41:59 - But,
00:42:01 --> 00:42:03 - Roosevelt's looking over at Johnson
00:42:05 --> 00:42:08 - and running his finger under his throat like,
00:42:08 --> 00:42:11 - I'm gonna cut this guy's throat while he's
00:42:11 --> 00:42:13 - talking so nice to him.
00:42:15 --> 00:42:16 - And at dinner,
00:42:18 --> 00:42:20 - Roosevelt charmed Kennedy asking him to give a
00:42:20 --> 00:42:21 - radio address
00:42:21 --> 00:42:24 - to boost FDR's 1940
00:42:24 --> 00:42:24 - campaign,
00:42:25 --> 00:42:27 - particularly in the Irish areas,
00:42:28 --> 00:42:31 - Boston, other areas where the Irish were key.
00:42:31 --> 00:42:34 - Just as I have said in previous episodes,
00:42:34 --> 00:42:37 - the Jewish vote, the urban Jewish vote, very
00:42:37 --> 00:42:37 - key
00:42:38 --> 00:42:40 - to FDR, very key to Truman.
00:42:41 --> 00:42:44 - Irish vote, 100% the same way.
00:42:45 --> 00:42:46 - Not all the financial
00:42:47 --> 00:42:49 - aspects, but just the raw vote and
00:42:49 --> 00:42:50 - the precinct
00:42:51 --> 00:42:52 - workers,
00:42:52 --> 00:42:53 - the machines
00:42:54 --> 00:42:56 - in these various cities.
00:42:56 --> 00:42:59 - So he's asking Kennedy, a leading
00:42:59 --> 00:43:00 - Irish Catholic
00:43:02 --> 00:43:03 - who was sacked
00:43:04 --> 00:43:05 - as a ambassador,
00:43:05 --> 00:43:07 - but asking him to nonetheless boost
00:43:08 --> 00:43:09 - Roosevelt's 40 campaign.
00:43:12 --> 00:43:16 - Roosevelt dangled the possibility of giving his support
00:43:16 --> 00:43:18 - to Kennedy for president in the next election,
00:43:19 --> 00:43:19 - of course,
00:43:20 --> 00:43:20 - if he complied,
00:43:21 --> 00:43:23 - and Kennedy did comply.
00:43:24 --> 00:43:26 - While Roosevelt double crossed him by ensuring he
00:43:26 --> 00:43:29 - would be a pariah in the Democratic Party
00:43:29 --> 00:43:30 - circles
00:43:30 --> 00:43:32 - from that time forward, and that has to
00:43:32 --> 00:43:33 - do with Kennedy's
00:43:33 --> 00:43:35 - stand against World War two.
00:43:36 --> 00:43:38 - We've talked about that in other episodes. But
00:43:38 --> 00:43:39 - the point is here,
00:43:39 --> 00:43:42 - Roosevelt has got Johnson sitting there, and he's
00:43:42 --> 00:43:43 - very openly
00:43:43 --> 00:43:44 - working
00:43:45 --> 00:43:45 - and lying
00:43:46 --> 00:43:49 - to Kennedy in front of Johnson. That's how
00:43:49 --> 00:43:50 - much Johnson is already
00:43:51 --> 00:43:53 - in the inner circle of FDR.
00:44:03 --> 00:44:05 - Level of trust in the secretive,
00:44:05 --> 00:44:06 - patronage
00:44:06 --> 00:44:07 - dispensing
00:44:07 --> 00:44:08 - young
00:44:08 --> 00:44:08 - congressman.
00:44:09 --> 00:44:12 - Johnson admired and appreciated Roosevelt's duplicity
00:44:13 --> 00:44:16 - displayed in recognition of his own
00:44:17 --> 00:44:18 - depth of cunning
00:44:19 --> 00:44:20 - and future
00:44:20 --> 00:44:21 - usefulness.
00:44:23 --> 00:44:24 - Coming of aids politically
00:44:25 --> 00:44:26 - at the rise of federally
00:44:27 --> 00:44:29 - dependent defense industries
00:44:29 --> 00:44:32 - and federally regulated and subsidized
00:44:32 --> 00:44:33 - energy companies,
00:44:35 --> 00:44:38 - a phenomena that lifted West Texas into great
00:44:38 --> 00:44:39 - wealth,
00:44:40 --> 00:44:41 - Johnson became
00:44:41 --> 00:44:42 - a master
00:44:43 --> 00:44:44 - of political fundraising.
00:44:46 --> 00:44:48 - Only some of it was legal.
00:44:49 --> 00:44:51 - Lyndon Johnson embodied
00:44:51 --> 00:44:54 - everything opponents of the New Deal feared about
00:44:54 --> 00:44:55 - the growing regulatory
00:44:56 --> 00:44:56 - and money
00:44:57 --> 00:44:57 - distributing
00:44:58 --> 00:44:59 - state.
00:44:59 --> 00:45:02 - He was an amoral figure who flourished on
00:45:02 --> 00:45:03 - a new landscape
00:45:04 --> 00:45:05 - a businesses
00:45:05 --> 00:45:06 - preoccupied
00:45:06 --> 00:45:07 - with electing
00:45:08 --> 00:45:09 - and catering to
00:45:10 --> 00:45:13 - the officials who dispense favors and protection
00:45:14 --> 00:45:14 - to them.
00:45:15 --> 00:45:17 - Just what I was talking about,
00:45:18 --> 00:45:20 - the corruption of socialism.
00:45:21 --> 00:45:24 - Johnson was soon controlling campaign contributions
00:45:24 --> 00:45:25 - as well as crooked
00:45:26 --> 00:45:26 - boat totals
00:45:27 --> 00:45:30 - that would go to other client officials,
00:45:31 --> 00:45:32 - multiplying
00:45:32 --> 00:45:33 - the effect
00:45:33 --> 00:45:35 - of his power base.
00:45:36 --> 00:45:37 - So Johnson is very methodically
00:45:39 --> 00:45:42 - using the largest of the New Deal, using
00:45:42 --> 00:45:44 - the fact that he could get Roosevelt to
00:45:44 --> 00:45:45 - do his bidding
00:45:46 --> 00:45:49 - to build this power base in Texas.
00:45:49 --> 00:45:51 - Johnson would deploy the full extent of this
00:45:51 --> 00:45:53 - power base in a futile attempt to win
00:45:53 --> 00:45:56 - a US senate seat in 1941,
00:45:57 --> 00:45:57 - but
00:45:58 --> 00:46:00 - relationships were developed.
00:46:00 --> 00:46:02 - Principal funders up for the effort
00:46:03 --> 00:46:06 - and every Johnson electoral effort thereafter
00:46:07 --> 00:46:07 - was an emerging
00:46:08 --> 00:46:11 - corporate giant in Texas, one who benefited tremendously
00:46:12 --> 00:46:14 - from the doors open to them in the
00:46:14 --> 00:46:15 - corridors
00:46:15 --> 00:46:16 - of power
00:46:16 --> 00:46:18 - by Lyndon Johnson.
00:46:19 --> 00:46:23 - The biographer Robert Caro tells us, quote, Brown
00:46:23 --> 00:46:24 - and Root
00:46:25 --> 00:46:25 - became,
00:46:26 --> 00:46:27 - thanks to Johnson,
00:46:27 --> 00:46:28 - an industrial colossus,
00:46:29 --> 00:46:31 - one of the largest construction companies
00:46:32 --> 00:46:33 - and shipbuilding companies
00:46:34 --> 00:46:35 - and pipeline companies
00:46:36 --> 00:46:37 - in the world.
00:46:38 --> 00:46:42 - The holder of Johnson Arrange government contracts and
00:46:42 --> 00:46:42 - receiver
00:46:43 --> 00:46:45 - of Johnson Arrange government favors
00:46:46 --> 00:46:47 - amounting to billions
00:46:48 --> 00:46:50 - of $19.40
00:46:50 --> 00:46:50 - dollars.
00:46:52 --> 00:46:56 - Schwab George, Brown and his fierce brother Herman
00:46:56 --> 00:46:57 - became, in return,
00:46:57 --> 00:46:59 - the principal financiers
00:47:00 --> 00:47:01 - of Johnson's rise
00:47:02 --> 00:47:02 - to power,
00:47:03 --> 00:47:04 - unquote.
00:47:05 --> 00:47:07 - Johnson would bring an unprecedented
00:47:07 --> 00:47:09 - amount of campaign money into the nineteen forty
00:47:09 --> 00:47:12 - one Texas senate race, but he came up
00:47:12 --> 00:47:12 - short
00:47:13 --> 00:47:15 - by less than 1
00:47:15 --> 00:47:16 - votes.
00:47:16 --> 00:47:18 - He held on to his house seat, but
00:47:18 --> 00:47:19 - would have to fend off
00:47:19 --> 00:47:21 - a major investigation
00:47:22 --> 00:47:24 - by the IRS into Brown and Root and
00:47:24 --> 00:47:27 - how he so lavishly funded his own
00:47:27 --> 00:47:28 - campaign.
00:47:29 --> 00:47:32 - After his defeat and Pearl Harbor attack, congressman
00:47:32 --> 00:47:33 - Lyndon Johnson enlisted,
00:47:34 --> 00:47:36 - and FDR sent him immediately
00:47:36 --> 00:47:38 - on a fact finding mission
00:47:39 --> 00:47:40 - to Asia.
00:47:40 --> 00:47:42 - And Johnson was a very fortuitous
00:47:42 --> 00:47:43 - fact finder
00:47:44 --> 00:47:47 - because while he occasionally skirted combat zones,
00:47:49 --> 00:47:52 - he was given the silver star, the third
00:47:52 --> 00:47:54 - highest medal, and he wore a silver star
00:47:54 --> 00:47:55 - pin the rest of his life
00:47:56 --> 00:47:57 - on his suit coats
00:47:58 --> 00:48:01 - or be a fact finder on a few
00:48:01 --> 00:48:03 - missions that touched the combat zone.
00:48:06 --> 00:48:09 - There have been speculation among historians that Art
00:48:09 --> 00:48:09 - MacArthur,
00:48:10 --> 00:48:13 - who pinned it on him, Douglas MacArthur himself,
00:48:14 --> 00:48:17 - awarded FDR's trusted congressman the medal in a
00:48:17 --> 00:48:17 - bargain.
00:48:18 --> 00:48:20 - Johnson reported back to the commander in chief
00:48:20 --> 00:48:23 - that there was an urgent need for a
00:48:23 --> 00:48:25 - new level of weapons and supply support
00:48:26 --> 00:48:27 - for MacArthur,
00:48:28 --> 00:48:31 - something that MacArthur had failed to get on
00:48:31 --> 00:48:31 - his own
00:48:33 --> 00:48:34 - in that situation.
00:48:36 --> 00:48:38 - So you're getting the flavor here, folks,
00:48:38 --> 00:48:40 - A flavor of the depth,
00:48:41 --> 00:48:42 - the absolute
00:48:43 --> 00:48:43 - depth
00:48:44 --> 00:48:47 - of corruption we are talking about here
00:48:47 --> 00:48:48 - with Lyndon Johnson.
00:48:50 --> 00:48:53 - And we go on to his election in
00:48:53 --> 00:48:54 - 1948.
00:48:54 --> 00:48:55 - Actually, I may save that
00:48:56 --> 00:48:57 - for next week.
00:48:58 --> 00:48:59 - But Johnson,
00:48:59 --> 00:49:00 - corrupt elections,
00:49:02 --> 00:49:02 - women,
00:49:04 --> 00:49:04 - booze,
00:49:06 --> 00:49:07 - payoffs,
00:49:09 --> 00:49:11 - the whole gamut, folks. The whole gamut, but
00:49:11 --> 00:49:13 - all of it in a very
00:49:13 --> 00:49:14 - calculated
00:49:16 --> 00:49:16 - acquisition
00:49:17 --> 00:49:18 - of power,
00:49:18 --> 00:49:19 - much different
00:49:21 --> 00:49:23 - than the corrupt activities of John f Kennedy
00:49:23 --> 00:49:25 - as we are going to find out.
00:49:26 --> 00:49:29 - You are listening to Hour of Decision on
00:49:29 --> 00:49:31 - Liberty News Radio. My name is Lou Moore,
00:49:31 --> 00:49:33 - and I will talk to you again
00:49:34 --> 00:49:35 - next week.