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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust watched the LBJ bio, All The Way, again. Everyone should
Watch this movie. Here was a man determined to do the right thing no matter the cost. Maybe some so called dems can be reminded what we're supposed to be about.
CurtEastPoint
(18,549 posts)onecaliberal
(32,483 posts)Skink
(10,122 posts)There is something like 70 phone lines in the mid sized house. He had 3 televisions in most of the rooms so he could monitor the networks.
stopbush
(24,376 posts)And for his hard work, LBJ gets smeared by the assassination nuts as having been involved in JFK's murder.
Lance Bass esquire
(671 posts)I was a toddler when this was going down. One of my favorite Presidents of all time.
onecaliberal
(32,483 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I highly recommend reading it, seeing it and pestering HBO to film it.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)of a couple friends. It was only later that I was able to appreciate him for the man he was. I didn't realize he was the most Liberal Democratic President we would see for over half a century.
Whenever someone says, "Politics ain't bean bag!, I think of LBJ.
http://thejohnsonpost.blogspot.com/2009/08/johnson-treatment.html
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)It covers the period in Johnson's career from Kennedy's assassination through the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, and it makes a very interesting read in terms of seeing how Johnson used his political skill to get those laws passed.
WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)...LBJ was one of the dirtiest politicians in American political history. Still love him though.
onecaliberal
(32,483 posts)WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)...i love LBJ. However, early in his political career, he was known to do whatever it took to win. This was particularly true during his years in Texas politics.
Having said that, he was one of the great Democratic public servants. There was no one like him.
MinM
(2,650 posts)There's no secret that LBJ and the Kennedy Brothers didn't always play nice as Bill Moyers alludes to in the setup to this conversation between RFK and LBJ...
LBJ does sound sincere though when he tells Bobby that his input on Vietnam was welcomed. Of course Lyndon could afford to be magnanimous now that he held a position of power over RFK.
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