Senator Yarborough

[Michael Clark]

On 5/30/2012 at 5:28 AM, John Simkin said:

Ralph Yarborough was on the left-wing of the Democratic Party in 1963. Yarborough was the only member of the Senate representing a former Confederate state to vote for every significant piece of civil rights legislation. This included the Civil Rights Act (1957) and Civil Rights Act (1960). LBJ therefore hated Yarborough and this is why he made so much fuss about where he sat in the motorcade.

Yarborough continued to be a strong critic of LBJ after he became president. This was especially true of his foreign policy.

http://www.spartacus...Kyarborough.htm

I also brought up this subject in August, 2005 (without any response):

http://educationforu...?showtopic=4780

This extract is very interesting:

Hugh Aynesworth, JFK: Breaking the News (2003)

Liberal Ralph Yarborough, for example, detested centrists such as Connally and Johnson-and with some reason. The governor and the vice president were never seen doing the senator any favors. Just the opposite. On this trip they seemed determined to put Yarborough in his place.

Connally was scheduled to host a private reception for JFK at the governor's mansion in Austin that Friday night: Yarborough was absent from the guest list.

Yarborough's response to that snub: "I want everybody to join hands in harmony for the greatest welcome to the President and Mrs. Kennedy in the history of Texas."

Then: "Governor Connally is so terribly uneducated governmentally, how could you expect anything else?"

On Thursday afternoon in Houston, Yarborough had defied Kennedy by refusing to ride in the same car with LBJ. He chose instead to be seen with Congressman Albert Thomas. In San Antonio that morning, Secret Service Agent Rufus Youngblood was gently nudging the senator toward Johnson's limo when Yarborough saw Congressman Henry Gonzalez, a political blood brother, and bolted toward him. "Can I ride with you, Henry?" he asked.

That evening, employees at Houston's Rice Hotel heard JFK and LBJ arguing over Yarborough in the presidential suite. Kennedy reportedly informed Johnson in strong terms that he felt Yarborough - who had much better poll numbers in Texas than Kennedy - was being mistreated, and the president was unhappy about that.

Updating John’s links..

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKyarborough.htm

https://spartacus-educational.com/USAcivilrights.htm

https://spartacus-educational.com/USAcivil60.htm

https://spartacus-educational.com/USAcivil57.htm

[Joseph McBride]

Yarborough told me Youngblood was never in the back seat. He scoffed

at the idea that a large man could be amidst them, since it was crowded

already with himself, LBJ, and Lady Bird. It appears that Specter may have

fudged this a bit, deliberately.