LBJ's criminal financial activities - 1937 to 1963

[Douglas Caddy]

Lyndon Johnson’s Criminal Financial Activities – 1937 to 1963

 

https://lbjthemasterofdeceit.com/2020/08/04/lyndon-johnsons-criminal-financial-activities-1937-to-1963/

[Joe Bauer]

5 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said:

Lyndon Johnson’s Criminal Financial Activities – 1937 to 1963

 

https://lbjthemasterofdeceit.com/2020/08/04/lyndon-johnsons-criminal-financial-activities-1937-to-1963/

That contemporaneous paradigm eventually extended to the early biographies of LBJ, mostly because those early biographies were done with Johnson’s blessing, by long-time friends like Harry Provence, whose Waco newspaper was one of his biggest supporters.  Others would follow, including Merle Miller and of course Doris Kearns, whose book does not mention Mr. Estes.  Nor is it mentioned in most other biographies written about Lyndon Johnson.  But, were it not for his involvement, the Billie Sol Estes scandal would have never been reported outside of Texas.

The reason the Estes scandal has been ignored by most of LBJ’s biographers, including the famed Robert Caro – who often claims to “turn every page” in his research – is because it is more than merely a “hot potato.”  It’s more like a bombshell.  Rather than being just another case of mishandling “campaign contributions,” it quickly and inexorably leads to multiple murders ordered by Lyndon Johnson according to Estes himself and others who knew them.  Thus, with not a single mention of the name Billie Sol Estes in his four lengthy volumes, the most acclaimed biographer of Lyndon Johnson evidently missed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of newspaper or magazine articles in what was a ubiquitous national scandal in 1962, with LBJ right in the middle of it. 

[Ron Bulman]

Not to digress from the fact LBJ was corrupt but Caro was likely a CIA a mockingbird himself, jmo. 

https://www.bing.com/search?q=robert+caro+lbj&form=PRUSEN&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&msnews=1&rec_search=1&refig=fd4bb6dd305d45a29a75ca2c34386f8a&sp=-1&ghc=1&pq=robert+caro+lbj&sc=8-15&qs=n&sk=&cvid=fd4bb6dd305d45a29a75ca2c34386f8a 

Edited August 18, 2020 by Ron Bulman

[Ron Bulman]

18 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

Not to digress from the fact LBJ was corrupt but Caro was likely a CIA a mockingbird himself, jmo. 

https://www.bing.com/search?q=robert+caro+lbj&form=PRUSEN&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&msnews=1&rec_search=1&refig=fd4bb6dd305d45a29a75ca2c34386f8a&sp=-1&ghc=1&pq=robert+caro+lbj&sc=8-15&qs=n&sk=&cvid=fd4bb6dd305d45a29a75ca2c34386f8a 

An aside, posted for reading myself tomorrow.

https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/lyndon-johnson-robert-caro-affairs-misogyny.html