Humorous side note. Rep L.B. Johnson was in bed with Halliburton!

[FDRrocks]

*This isn't libel directed at LBJ, I have no interest in slandering a dead man for something so minute. I just found it interesting.*

Stumbled across this in a book:

...Lydon Johnson, who was endangered by an Internal Revenue Service investigation into the substantial and and allegedly illegal campaign contributions of Johnson's sponsor, Herman Brown, through Brown and Root, Inc.

So I did a quick search and got this: Guide to the Brown & Root / George R. Brown Executive Files, 1937-1978

In December 1962 the Halliburton Company of Dallas purchased Brown and Root, which continues to operate under its own name. Halliburton's significant acquisition of Brown and Root of Houston in 1962 gained for the company the sort of subsudiaries that heretofore had been missing: industrial and marine engineering and construction firms. At the time of acquisition Brown and Root had annual revenues of $5.5 billion

George R. Brown served as a director of the Halliburton Company, Armco Steel Corporation, Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Trans-World Airlines, Southland Paper Company, First City Bancorporation, and Highland Oil Company. He served on important commissions for presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson...

If this isn't GD material I apologize.

edit, woops in title

[Nlighten1]

1. It would seem that...

all roads lead back to Haliburton.

[starroute]

2. It gets a lot twistier than that

For one thing, the LBJ relationship with Brown and Root went back to World War II.

Who then did Lyndon Johnson represent? According to his challenger, only the wealthiest and most influential members of the congressman’s inner circle benefitted from his efforts. For Herman Brown, prominent contractor and co-owner of the massive Brown & Root construction firm, he had pursued and secured numerous profitable wartime contracts. While average constituents had grappled with shortages and government controls during the war, Brown had grown even wealthier building military facilities at taxpayers’ expense. Alvin Wirtz, Johnson's mentor, attorney for both Brown & Root and Humble Oil and Refining Company, and chief counsel of the LCRA, had soaked the river authority for almost $90,000 in legal fees while the congressman stood silently watching.

http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us/lpatrick/his2341/Waging_War_With_Regulars.html

Notice the name of Humble Oil in there? Well, here's the really strange stuff:

In 1961, shortly after George Bush moved to Houston, his company joined a consortium with Dresser Industries and General Dynamics to bid on the "Mohole Project," which was awarded to Brown & Root.

In 1950 Dresser Industries had relocated its headquarters to Dallas with a large branch office in Houston--the center of the oil and gas industry. Before the 1961 Mohole bid, Dresser had rejected the opportunity to acquire Brown & Root, whose chairman, Herman Brown, was the organizer of Houston's own political action committee.

Herman's brother, George R. Brown, was for many years head of the Rice Institute board of governors and was Lyndon Johnson's biggest contributor and fund-raiser.

The Rice board controlled the assets and companies of Howard Hughes, not the least important of which was the patent for the three-cone rolling cutter rock bit. The Rice board members were also intimately involved with the management of Houston-based Humble Oil, a company whose connections with the Rockefeller Standard Oil empire were difficult to hide, especially after Humble co-founder and chairman W. S. Farish became chairman of Jersey Standard prior to World War II.

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=39&contentid=45


In other words, the Browns were both pals of LBJ *and* intimately connected with the Bush/Dresser Industries/Humble Oil/W.S. Farish axis. (Farish was the pal of the Bush family who got into trouble in 1942 for not only doing business with the Nazis but supplying them with patents for artificial rubber which were not revealed to the U.S. government.)

I've been puzzling my head over all this for a while, and it still makes no sense to me whatsoever. All I can conclude is that Texas is a very strange place.

[FDRrocks]

3. FDR seems to concur..

I got this from a book on FDR, in the same paragraph it had

Roosevelt argued to Morgenthau that it was customary in Texas for businessmen to make illegal contributions

[catzies]

5. Isn't Humble Oil part of the Hunt family empire?

:shrug:

[seventhson]

4. THIS is why Oliver Stone believed LBJ may have been IN on the JFK hit

On the other hand LBJ would not have had to be in the loop to still be the beneficiary of the coup.

LBJ tapes indicate he did not believe the Warren Commission but it may be inferred from the tapes that he did not have any knowledge of the plot. He may have suspected that his friends were behind it and this may have been one reason his conscious made him drop out of the 1968 presidential race and to stop the bombing of Vietnam.

[mrbill]

6. lbj and brown & root go way back

It was 1937, and the Mansfield Dam project (then called the Marshall Ford dam) was in limbo. Brown & Root, which had been a small Belton-based road-building company, was working on the dam even though Congress had not approved the $10 million project. Even worse, the project was illegal because the Bureau of Reclamation, which was overseeing the project, didn't own the land on which the dam was being built -- a minor fact that under federal law should have prevented the project from getting under way. But Herman Brown pressed on. He had received $5 million and was betting that he could get the federal approval and funding needed to finish the project. But he needed Johnson -- then a newly elected Congressman -- to get it. Johnson delivered. In July of 1937, with the backing of President Franklin Roosevelt, who made it clear he was doing it for "Congressman Johnson," the authorization and funding was approved.


http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-28-00/austin_pols_feature2.html