Lyndon Johnson

Lyndon Johnson   (Teacher)
Born	Lyndon Baines Johnson 1908-08-27 Stonewall, Texas, U.S.
Died	1973-01-22 (Age 64) near Stonewall, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	Texas State University
Religion	Reformed
Children	• Lynda Bird • Luci Baines
Spouse	Lady Bird Taylor
Founder of	The Warren Commission
Member of	JFK/Assassination/Perpetrators, US/Deep state
Party	Democratic
Subpage	•Lyndon Johnson/Body count •Lyndon Johnson/Presidency
Generally agreed to have been heavily involved in the plot to assassinate his predecessor, JFK.  US President In office November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969 Employer US Government Deputy Hubert Humphrey Preceded by JFK Succeeded by Richard Nixon An ambitious psychopath who is generally agreed to have played a significant or possibly leading role in organising the assassination of JFK. He established the Warren Commission to cover up the JFK assassination. He reversed JFK's decision to reduce troop numbers in Vietnam and instead escalated the war.  US Vice President In office January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963 Employer US Government Suspected to have blackmailed his way into the vice presidency so he could become president when JFK was assassinated.  Senate Majority Leader In office January 3, 1955 - January 3, 1961  Senate Minority Leader In office January 3, 1953 - January 3, 1955  Senate Majority Whip In office January 3, 1951 - January 3, 1953  United States Senator from Texas In office January 3, 1949 - January 3, 1961  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 10th district In office April 10, 1937 - January 3, 1949 Succeeded by Homer Thornberry

JFK Assassination

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LBJ insists upon being sworn in just hours after the JFK assassination.

The 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), Lyndon Johnson is generally reckoned to have been the deeply involved with the JFK Assassination, and was named as such by the deathbed confession of CIA agent E. Howard Hunt.

President Kennedy was reluctant to choose LBJ as his vice president, but felt forced to select him as vice president.

LBJ put together the Warren Commission charged with investigating the assassination.

Mark Gorton alleges that LBJ "had his own personal hit man, Mac Wallace, who had been killing people for a decade to keep LBJ’s crimes from being exposed."

Madeleine Duncan Brown's testimony

Lyndon Johnson's had a longtime mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown. She named LBJ as a key organiser of the JFK assassination, although her testimony is doubted by some, including JFK researcher Joan Mellen, who has stated that her evidence is unreliable and deceitful.

Vietnam War

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LBJ stoked war fever by characterizing North Vietnam’s attacks on the Maddox – and the later attack on the Maddox and the Turner Joy – as "unprovoked aggression." A very different picture is revealed by a phone conversation he had on August 3 with his Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, which the latter secretly recorded:

"OK. Here’s what we did. We [were] within their 12-mile limit, and that’s a matter that hasn’t been settled. But there have been some covert operations in that area that we have been carrying on – blowing up some bridges and things of that kind, roads, and so forth. So I imagine they wanted to put a stop to it. So they come out there and fire and we respond immediately with five-inch guns from the destroyer and with planes overhead. And we cripple them up – knock one of them out and cripple the other two. And then we go right back where we were with that destroyer [the Maddox], and with another one [the Turner Joy], plus plenty of planes standing by. And that’s where we are now."
LBJ - 1964-08-03

Dr. William Pepper quotes Colonel John Downey, LBJ's briefing officer during the Vietnam War as stating that LBJ stated that he couldn't stop the war in Vietnam because "my friends are making too much money".

 

A Quote by Lyndon Johnson

Page	Quote	Date	Source
"Gulf of Tonkin Incident"	“OK. Here’s what we did. We [were] within their 12-mile limit, and that’s a matter that hasn’t been settled. But there have been some covert operations in that area that we have been carrying on – blowing up some bridges and things of that kind, roads, and so forth. So I imagine they wanted to put a stop to it. So they come out there and fire and we respond immediately with five-inch guns from the destroyer and with planes overhead. And we cripple them up – knock one of them out and cripple the other two. And then we go right back where we were with that destroyer [the Maddox], and with another one [the Turner Joy], plus plenty of planes standing by. And that’s where we are now.”	3 August 1964	Nuclear Risk

 

Appointments by Lyndon Johnson

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
John H. Reed	National Transportation Safety Board/Chairman	1966	1976
Walt Rostow	United States National Security Advisor	1 April 1966	20 January 1969
Jack Valenti	Special Assistant to the President	22 November 1963	1 June 1966	Liaison with the news media during President John F. Kennedy and VP Lyndon B. Johnson's November 22, 1963 visit to Dallas, Texas, then under LBJ.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Freedom of Information Act	“It appears that Freedom of Information (hereinafter FOI) laws have never been loved by their parents. When US President Lyndon Johnson signed the world's first FOI Act into law in 1966, he was so keen not to be associated with it that – uniquely among modern Presidential enactions – there was no photographer present to capture the historic moment. It is fitting that Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, who gave the UK its own FOI Act, has since attempted to disassociate himself from the law he presented to the Queen for Royal Assent in 2000.”	Garrick Alder	2017

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