The Kennedys were out to utterly destroy Lyndon Johnson in November 1963 and LBJ was highly agitated about this

[Robert Morrow]

The Kennedys were working a two-track program to not merely drop Lyndon Johnson from the 1964 Democratic ticket, but to permanently politically destroy Lyndon Johnson. LBJ knew all about this was was highly agitated and upset about this. This was all coming to a head in November, 1963.

The sources below are LBJ aides Horace Busby, George Reedy, John Connally along with Burkett van Kirk, James Wagenvoord and the National Review's Phil Brennan. Evelyn Lincoln, JFK's secretary of 12 years, also said Johnson was going to be dropped.

Publicly in fall of 1963, John Kennedy said he was going to keep LBJ on the ticket. JFK said this at the same time Robert Kennedy was orchestrating the "Destroy LBJ" program. After Evelyn Lincoln's book came out in the 1960s, aides to Robert Kennedy denied that JFK was going to drop Johnson. The Kennedys were spreading this lie because they thought it served the political interests of RFK. The reason Jackie Kennedy sued William Manchester was that she and other Kennedy aides had said so many negative things about LBJ that she thought it might be politically embarrassing to Robert Kennedy as well.

Robert Kennedy, in his oral history, I think he denied that Johnson was going to be dropped. RFK then referenced that there were media stories that were appearing about Lyndon Johnson in the fall of 1963. Sly Robert Kennedy makes a point of not telling the reader that it was in fact Robert Kennedy himself who was fomenting these negative national stories about Lyndon Johnson!!

Of course, both Robert Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy immediately suspected Lyndon Johnson as a top perp in the JFK assassination as did Evelyn Lincoln.

LBJ top aide Horace Busby implies strongly that Lyndon Johnson was acutely aware  by Nov. 4, 1963 that the Kennedys had sent a SWAT team of over **FORTY** national reporters to Texas to utterly destroy him  https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/lyndon-johnson-was-acutely-aware-by-nov.html  I wonder how LBJ would have reacted?

Burkett van Kirk (GOP Senate Rules Committee counsel) and James Wagenvoord (Life Magazine assistant editor) prove the Kennedys were out to destroy LBJ in November of 1963 http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/senate-counsel-burkett-van-kirk-and.html

George Reedy (1982): Lyndon Johnson was OBSESSED with the idea that RFK was out to destroy him w/ Bobby Baker scandal in fall 1963 (which he was) http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-scary-mental-instabilities-of.html

National Review’s Phil Brennan knew in real time all about the Kennedys’ ongoing plan to destroy LBJ with the media in fall of 1963: https://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Some-Relevant-Facts-About/2003/11/18/id/677423/

Some Relevant Facts About the JFK Assassination

By Phil Brennan for NewsMax on Nov 18, 2003

["Some Relevant Facts About the JFK Assassination," Phil Brennan, NewsMax, 11-18-2003]

 http://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Some-Relevant-Facts-About/2003/11/18/id/677423/

 Also: http://home.earthlink.net/~sixthfloor/brennen.htm

Phil Brennan
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003

There's an explosive new book that lays out a very detailed - and 
persuasive - case for the probability that the late President Lyndon Baines 
Johnson was responsible for the assassination of President John F. 
Kennedy.

I say persuasive because the author, Barr McClellan, was one of LBJ's top
lawyers, and he provides a lot of information hitherto unknown to the general 
public - much more of which he says is buried in secret documents long 
withheld from the American people.

"The American public has waited forty years to hear the truth about the JFK assassination," McClellan says. "For government agencies to withhold critical evidence and not cooperate with the [1998 investigation conducted by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB)] is a form of obstruction of justice. Under the requirements of the Freedom of InformationAct, the public should be granted access to these documents."

According to McClellan and Doug Horne, a former ARRB investigator, hundreds of relevant documents were withheld from the 1998 investigation into the JFK assassination. They believe that these materials are now in the possession of the National Archives, relocated from sealed files previously controlled by the CIA and FBI.

McClellan also asked for a formal review of the evidence in his book, "Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.," which establishes a direct connection between LBJ and an individual involved with the assassination and cover-up.

"At this time we need to see what else is missing and what else would be helpful to presenting the entire truth," McClellan continued. "The Senate 
Judiciary Committee and the Department of Justice could make the request of the National Archives and should do so."

Now, in normal circumstance I would tend to view this latest explanation of who was behind the killing of JFK as exactly that - just another theory among dozens. But the circumstances are not normal. Poll after poll establishes that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the official verdict of the Warren Commission is simply not borne out by what little is known publicly about the case.

McClellan's new book adds to those facts and names a second suspect he says was a longtime assassin for Lyndon Johnson, whom he portrays as ... 
well, as being homicidal whenever he or his many concealed interests were 
threatened.

Add to that the incredible inconsistencies in the FBI and Secret Service 
investigations, which reek with the stench of cover-up, and one can't escape the conclusion that if LBJ did nothing else in dealing with the aftermath of the assassination, he sure as hell clamped a lid on any evidence that contradicted the official finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman acting solely on his own initiative.

I report all of this as a prelude to revealing what I know about the matter but have never before written about - in the beginning, because I had a wife and seven children to protect, and since, because I had no reason to revisit the matter.

Let's start with this: McClellan and others before him have discussed the fact that LBJ faced some pretty awful prospects, including not only being dumped from the 1964 ticket but also spending a long, long time in the slammer as a result of his role in the rapidly expanding Bobby Baker case - something few have speculated about because the full facts were never revealed by the media, which didn't want to know, or report, the truth.

Sometime in early 1963 I was approached by a young lady with whom I had worked on Nixon's 1960 campaign staff. She asked me if I would meet with her fiancé, who was in great difficulty - and in danger of being murdered.

At the time I was on the staff of the House Republican Policy Committee, and one of my assignments was to keep my bosses up to date on what was 
going on behind the scenes in the Cold War, analyzing intelligence that 
came our way and otherwise engaging in a never-ending clandestine, back-
alley war with the Democrat majority.

I was also writing a Washington column for Bill Buckley's National Review magazine under the cover name Cato, a fact known only to the top GOP House leadership, which allowed me to do the column as long as I didn't use my byline or write it on government time.

Moreover, in my Cato column I had recently broken the story about the Billie Sol Estes scandal, which involved Estes' crony, Lyndon Johnson. 
The young lady knew all that, and that's why she came to me. I agreed to meet with her fiancé, a South Carolinian named Ralph Hill. We met at the Market Inn, had a couple of martinis, and Hill told me his tale of woe.

He had come to Washington some time before and was steered to a fellow South Carolinian, one Bobby Baker, the powerful secretary of the Senate and a very close associate of Vice President Lyndon Johnson.

To make a long story short, Baker advised Hill to go into the vending machine business and promised him he'd arrange to get some major defense contractors to install the machines, which vended soft drinks, sandwiches, cigarettes and the like.

There was only one catch - Baker wanted under-the-table payoffs for his part in setting up what would be a very lucrative business opportunity with tens of thousands of potential customers who worked in defense plants.

True to his word, Baker got a number of defense contractors to agree to allow Hill the exclusive right to install his vending machines on their premises. It was an opportunity to print money by the barrel, and with those golden contracts in hand, Hill was able to go to the bank and borrow all the funds he needed to buy the vending machines and go into business. For a while he prospered - as did Baker.

But whatever he was paying Baker was not enough to satisfy the man who, for all intents and purposes, had the Senate under his thumb. He saw that the members of the Democrat majority got whatever they wanted - money, bimbos, LBJ's help, you name it. They were all in his pocket.

He could arrange multimillion-dollar contracts for the defense industry or take them away if he wanted. He was LBJ's guy and was all-powerful and a very dangerous man to have as an enemy, a fact Ralph Hill learned when Baker put the bite on him for bigger payoffs.

The problem for Hill was that he had big payments to make on the loans he'd taken out to buy the equipment and set himself up in business, had some pretty steep overhead, and simply didn't have enough left over to 
boost his payments to Baker.

He tried to explain that fact of life to Baker, but the secretary of the United States Senate wasn't having any. He simply repeated his demands and threatened Hill that if he didn't pay up he'd see that Hill lost all those juicy defense plant contracts.

Bad went to worse, Baker made good on his threats, and Hill was facing bankruptcy. Moreover, it was made known to him that if he didn't simply fold his tent and go off without making trouble for Baker, he might meet with an unfortunate - and probably fatal - accident.

But Hill was facing bankruptcy and the loss of everything he had, and he simply would not give up. He was fighting for his life. And he had the guts to hang in there.

He asked me to help him. But I was completely a creature of the House side of Capitol Hill - the Senate side was foreign territory and, I hate to admit it, I didn't even have the vaguest idea of who this Bobby Baker, the Senate's imperial potentate, was.

I told Hill that his only way out was to expose Baker publicly, to get the story out - once it was public, Baker could not afford to retaliate. I advised Hill to file suit against Baker, laying out all the sordid details in the complaint, and once h had served Baker, to give me the complaint papers and I'd see that the media on the Hill got their hands on copies.

He did and I did - and I now found myself a potential target, not only of Baker'sbut of the media as well, but that's another story. I was able to get only two reporters to write the story - the late Clark Mohlenhoff, one of the best investigative reporters in Washington, and one other whose name I don't recall.

For the most part, the Washington press corps kept the lid on the story - until the late Bob Humphrey, then the GOP Senate leadership's spokesman, an incredibly gifted strategist and a mentor, asked me to tell the story to the late Delaware Republican Sen. John Williams, a crusader for good government and a crackerjack of an investigator.

Sen. Williams asked me to introduce him to Hill and I did. They got together with some Senate investigators for the GOP minority and Hill told them the whole story, including the part played by Vice President Johnson. Williams got his committee to launch an investigation and the lid came off.

A few days later, the attorney general, Bobby Kennedy, called five of
Washington's top reporters into his office and told them it was now open season on Lyndon Johnson. It's OK, he told them, to go after the story they were ignoring out of deference to the administration.

And from that point on until the events in Dallas, Lyndon Baines Johnson's future looked as if it included a sudden end to his political career and a few years in the slammer. The Kennedys had their knives out and sharpened for him and were determined to draw his political blood - all of it.

In the Senate, the investigation into the Baker case was moving quickly ahead. Even the Democrats were cooperating, thanks to the Kennedys, and an awful lot of really bad stuff was being revealed - until Nov. 22, 1963.

By Nov. 23, all Democrat cooperation suddenly stopped. Lyndon would serve a term and a half in the White House instead of the slammer, the Baker investigation would peter out and Bobby Baker would serve a short sentence and go free. Dallas accomplished all of that.

Sometimes I wonder: If I had not met Hill and convinced him to go public with the story, and the Bobby Baker case and Lyndon's part in it had not come out as a result, would Dallas not have happened? I don't like to think about that.

And that's why I am convinced that McClellan is on to something. I hope he persists. There's an incredible amount of sordid government corruption that needs to be aired in public. As McClellan says, it's about time that the 
American people learned the truth about the death of John Fitzgerald 
Kennedy.

And a lot more.* * * * * *

Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and 
helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska 
Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee 
of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com.

Edited April 30 by Robert Morrow

[Robert Morrow]

Newsweek’s Ben Bradlee, a close friend of JFK: Newsweek on 11-22-63 had already physically printed an article on the Bobby Baker scandal and its connections to LBJ:

QUOTE

Ben Bradlee was in the lobby of the National Press Building when he heard the news that John F. Kennedy had been shot. He returned to his office in Newsweek: "Colleagues were crowded around the ticker, dazed, watching the deadly bursts of unbelievable, wrenching news, worsening every few seconds... And then, so suddenly, he was dead. Life changed, forever, in the middle of a nice day, at the end of a good week, in a wonderful year of what looked like an extraordinary decade of promise. It would take months before we would begin to understand how, but the inevitability of wrenching change was plain as tears."

Kennedy had died on a Friday. Bradlee claims that the journal's main article about the Bobby Baker scandal and its links with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson had already been printed: "Fridays are the beginning of the end of a week in the life of a news magazine. The covers have long since been printed, waiting for the rest of the book. All the features - the back of the book-have been edited and typeset. The leads of the news sections are being written, edited, rewritten, and rewritten again. The printed cover of the impending scandal involving Bobby Baker, LBJ's protégé, was scrapped. The entire magazine went out the window and we began all over again."

QUOTE

http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbradleeB.htm

Drew Pearson was going to drop a Bunker Buster Bomb column on Lyndon Johnson on Sunday, November 24th with a focus on LBJ’s ties to Bobby Baker and also LBJ’s involvement with the TFX fighter jet scandal 

          Drew Pearson’s column by 1969 was syndicated in over 600 papers with a readership of 60 million people. Pearson also had a weekly radio show “Washington-Merry-Go-Round” that was nationally syndicated. Just before the JFK assassination Pearson was going to drop a bunker buster bomb column on LBJ that would have exploded in Sunday papers on doorsteps all over the East Coast by 7AM Eastern time, or within 43 hours of the JFK assassination.

 Information on Drew Pearson: http://www.library.american.edu/pearson/biography.html

 QUOTE

           “On the afternoon of Thursday, November 21, less than twenty-four hours before the assassination, Pearson met with Bobby Baker in Washington. It was their first face-to-face conversation, and the Senate-aide-turned-lobbyist had dirt to share. “Bobby confirmed the fact that the president had been mixed up with a lot of women,” Pearson wrote in his personal diary. One of Kennedy’s women- a prominent aide to Jacqueline Kennedy- “had her bed wired for sound by her landlady when Jack was sleeping with her,” the columnist wrote.

          Johnson was in Pearson’s crosshairs in the Baker story. That very Sunday- November 24- Pearson’s column was due to target the vice president over his financial ties to the lobbyist. In his diary, Pearson wrote that it would be “quite a devastating story” involving Johnson, Baker, and possible corruption in a $7 billion fighter-jet contract handed to General Dynamics, a Texas firm.”

 UNQUOTE

 [Philip Shenon, A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of The Kennedy Assassination, pp. 43-44]

Edited April 30 by Robert Morrow

[Robert Morrow]

Note: I do not know if this Drew Pearson expose of Lyndon Johnson actually ran in the Sunday papers of 11/24/1963.

I think this was immediately spiked over the weekend of 11-24 to 11-24 after LBJ became president. While LBJ was president, Drew Pearson become of the LBJ's leading media sychophants and LBJ would manipulate Pearson by pretending that he might appoint him as Secretary of State.

This is the kind of column on LBJ that was about to coming spewing out in the national media just a few days after the JFK assassination. The key point is: the Kennedys were fomenting LBJ national media exposes such as the one below.

Drew Pearson – Merry-Go-Round, Release Saturday Nov. 23, 1963

The Lead topic was Lyndon Johnson’s ties to the highly controversial TFX Contract which went to LBJ’s buddy Henry Crown of General Dynamics. The general counsel of General Dynamics Albert E. Jenner was named as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission and he focused on the biography of Oswald, somehow missing that Oswald was a CIA operative and FBI informant.

 https://web.archive.org/web/20140913035336/http://dspace.wrlc.org/doc/bitstream/2041/50074/b18f08-1123xdisplay.pdf - using the Internet Wayback Machine

 FROM BELL-MCCLURE SYNDICATE DREW PEARSON MERRY-GO-ROUND, RELEASE SAT,, NOV, 23, 1963 JACK ANDERSON ON WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND (COPYRIGHT, 1963, BY BELLIMCCLURE SYNDICATE)

JACK ANDERSON SAYS: LYNDON JOHNSON LURKS IN BACKGROUND OF TFX CONTRACT; BOBBY BAKER KNOWS WHERE A LOT OF TFX SKELETONS ARE BURIED; SEN, MCCLELLAN MAY DIG DEEPER,

  (EDITOR'S NOTE: WHILE DREW PEARSON IS IN TEXAS, THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND IS WRITTEN BY HIS ASSOCIATE,JACK ANDERSON,!

WASHINGTON--IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHETHER SEN, JOHN MCCLELLAN, D-ARK,, REALLY T R I E S T O FIND OUT HOW MUCH BOBBY BAKER KNOWS ABOUT THE TFX CONTROVERSY,

THE STERN SENATE INVESTIGATIONS CHAIRMAN HAS PROMISED TO LOOK INTO PUBLISHED REPORTS THAT BAKER THREATENED TO EXPOSE SOME TFX SKULDUGGERY IF HIS OWN GET-RICH-QUICK ACTIVITIES ARE SCRUTINIZED TOO CLOSELY,

MCCLELLAN'S INVESTIGATORS WILL HAVE QUITE A TRAIL TO FOLLOW. BUT IF THEY FOLLOW IT CAREFULLY IT WILL TAKE THEM THROUGH THE QUORUM CLUB, WHICH BOBBY FOUNDED, AND LEAD THEM IN THE DIRECTION OF VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON

LONG BEFORE THE TFX CONTRACT WAS AWARDED TO GENERAL DYNAMICS, THE LOBBYISTS AND CONTRACTORS HAD BEGUN PULLING AND TUGGING ON EVERY POSSIBWE POLITICAL STRING TO LAND THIS BIGGEST MILITARY CONTRACT OF THE KENNEDY A D M I N I S T R A T I O N $59 600~000~000~

GENERAL DYNAMICS' BOARD CHAIRMAN, HENRY CROWN, SLIPPED AROUND WASHINGTON BUTTONHOLING POLITICIANS HE KNEW ONE WAS LYNDON JOHNSON, CROWN, WHO CONTRIBUTED MONEY TO EISENHOWER AND NIXON IN 1952 AND 1956 WHEN THEY WERE CERTAIN TO WIN, HEDGED HIS POLITICAL BETS IN 1960 BY PUTTING MONEY ON BOTH SIDES, HE ALSO TOOK PAINS TO PUT $1,000 BEHIND LBJ'S CAMPAIGN FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION,

  THE VICE PRESIDENT HAD FRIENDS AT GENERAL DYNAMICS' FTe WORTH PLANT AND WAS ANXIOUS TO HAVE THE CONTRACT GO TO TEXAS, (MORE)

M G R - RELEASE SAT,gNOV,23d-PAGE 2:

MEANWHILE, JACK RETTALIATA, VICE PRESIDENT OF GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT, A CO-CONTRACTOR WITH GD, FOR MEN OF INFLUENCE, QUORUM CLUB AND RFTTALIATA PICKED UP THE TAB FOR AT LEAST ONE PRIVATE DRINKING PARTY AT THE Q CLUB ON SEPT, 26, 1962, THIS WAS TWO MONTHS WAS ALSO SLAPPING BACKS AND BUYING DRINKS SOME OF THE PARTIES TOOK PLACE AT BOBBY'S BEFORE THE TFX CONTRACT WAS SIGNED,

--MILITARY OVERRULED

IT WAS A JOINT PROPOSAL FROM GENERAL DYNAMICS AND GRUMMAN AGREEING TO WORK TOGETHER ON THE TFX FIGHTER PLANE THAT FINALLY WON THE CONTRACT, IN AWARDLAG IT, THE PENTAGONP S CI1!.ILIAN CHIfFS OVERRU!XD THE MILITARY REVIEW BOAIiDS WIITCI! HAD UN~NIMOI~SLY RECOMMENDED BOEING

JOHNSON'S BACKSTAGE ROLE IN THE DECISION ISN'T KNOWN, EXCEPT THAT HE ONCE SPOKE TO SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE E'JGENE ZUCKERT ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE CONTRACT, BUT INSIDE THE PENTAGON, THE TFX BECAME KNOWN IRONICALLY AS THE LBJ, THIS MAY BE UNFAIR TO THE VICE PRESIDENT,

THIS MUCH IS KNOWN:

 --GRUMMAN'S RETTALIATA FURNISHED THE VICE PRESIDENT WITH A "DEMONSTRATION PLANE" FOR AT LEAST ONE FREE FLIGHT TO TEXAS, HAS FLOWN FREQUENTLY IN GRUMMAN GULFSTREAM EXECUTIVE PLANES9 BUT JOHNSON RETTALIATA INSISTED TO THIS COLUMN THAT THE ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE WITH AN AIR CHARTER SERVICE,

--RETTALIATA WAS IN FREQUENT TOUCH WITH VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S OFFICE, SPECIFICALLY WITH HIS ASSISTANT WALTER JENKINS, WHO CLAIMED TO THIS COLUMN THAT RETTALIATA'S VISITS AND PHONE CALLS HAD DEALT WITH THE GULFSTREAM AIRPLANE, NOT THE TFX CONTRACT,

--MATTY MATTHEWS, CHIEF MONEY RAISER FOR THE SENATE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, FORMERLY WAS ON GRUMMAN'S PAYROLL, MATTHEWS WAS I GRUMMAN THAT HE AT THE QUORUM LEADING DEMOCRATS THE PLANE WAS NOT ONLY CLOSE TO BOBBY BAKER, BUT SO IN LOVE WIT MOUNTED A PICTURE OF THE GULFSTREAM ABOVE THE BAR CLUB, HE ALSO ARRANGED FOR THE GULFSTREAM TO FLY AROUND THE COUNTRY, BUT SWORE TO THIS COLUMN THAT ALWAYS PROPERLY CHARTERED,

--RETTALIATA ALSO WAS IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH DICK OCCUPIES THE MOST SECRET OFFICE AT TKE DEMOCRATIC MAGUIRE WHO NATIONAL COMMITTEE AND ARRANGES GOVERNMENT FAVORS FOR POLITICAL CONTRIBUTORS, MAGUIRE'S MAIL AND PHONE CALLS ARE CAREFULLY SCREENED BY TRUSTED AIDES, (MORE )

M G R RELEASE SAT,, NOV, 23 0.. PAGE 3:

--A REPORTED $50,000 WORTH OF TICKETS ALLEGEDLY WERE PURCHASED BY GRUMMAN OFFICIALS AND THEIR FRIENDS FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S $I,000-A0 PLATE DINNER LAST JANUARY, THIS TOOK PLACE TWO MONTHS AFTER THE AWARD OF THE TFX CONTRACT. RETTALIATA DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE DINNER CONTRIBUTIONS, BUT A LETTER SIGNED BY HIM HAS NOW COME TO LIGHT URGING GRUMMAN SUBCONTRACTORS TO BUY ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NASSAU COUNTY DEMOCRATS' JOURNAL. THIS WAS DISTRIBUTED AT A LOCAL $1OO=APLATE DINNER.

NO DOUBT BOBBY BAKER COULD TELL SENATE SLEUTHS EVEN MORE ABOUT THE TFX DEAL,

 --EXPENSIVE PAPER COMMITTEE-- OHIO'S VETERAN CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL FEIGHAN QUIETLY COLLECTED ENOUGH PROXIES FROM HIS COLLEAGUES RECENTLY TO ELECT HIMSELF CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY POLICY, WHICH PREVIOUSLY HAD EXISTED ONLY ON PAPER. IT WAS SO ETHEREAL THAT IT TURNED ITS $20,000 APPROPRIATION BACK TO THE TREASURY EACH YEAR. AS CHAIRMAN, FEIGHAN QUICKLY FOUND A USE FOR THE $20,000* KE APPOINTED HIS ASSISTANT, EDWARD O'CONNOR, AS STAFF DIRECTOR AND TRIPLED HIS SALARY FROM $532.43 USE STAMPS, STATIONERY, AND MISCELLANEOUS, TO $1,573075 PER MONTH. THIS WILL UP NEARLY $19,000 OF THE APPROPRIATION, LEAVING ANOTHER $1,000 FOR SINCE THE COMMITTEE HAS NO OFFICES, O'CONNOR REMAINS IN FEIGHAN'S OFFICE DOING THE SAME WORK HE USED TO DO BUT COLLECTING THREE TIMES MORE MONEY, O'CONNOR INSISTED TO THIS COLUMN, HOWEVER, THAT HE IS DEVOTING HIMSELF TO IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY (CAP IN> MATTERS AND THAT HE HOPES TO WHEEDLE MORE MONEY OUT OF CONGRESS TO REACTIVATE THE COMMITTEE 0 (END M G R, SAT., NOV, 23, 1963)

[Robert Morrow]

Journalist Alfed Steinberg: Lyndon Johnson was so concerned about the Kennedys dropping him from the 1964 Democratic ticket that he developed severe stomach pains

QUOTE

A midwestern Senator who travelled with Johnson on a fall fundraising affair for Senator Thomas Dodd remarked to his colleagues that Johnson had remarked lugubriously during their New England visit that “I am going to be out for a second term. Jack has another man in mind for Vice President.” So concerned was Johnson over what he believed would be his political doom that he developed severe stomach pains.

UNQUOTE

[Alfred Steinberg, Sam Johnson’s Boy, p. 589]

Lyndon Johnson told Robert Novak in summer 1962 that the Kennedys were losing the cold war against the Soviet Union, losing to conservatives in Congress and that Robert Kennedy was planning to dump him off the 1964 Democratic ticket.

Robert Novak later married Geraldine, a secretary to LBJ

           Notice how Johnson is telling Novak in the summer of 1962 how the Kennedy Administration was "losing" the cold war to the Russians. This is before the fall, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. I imagine Johnson was using these same arguments with the generals, the Texas oil men and the military intelligence in the lead up to the JFK assassination.

         Robert Novak:

 QUOTE

           "After a Texas-style cookout, LBJ reclined, nearly prone, by the swimming pool. It was just the two of us drinking Scotch, and he spoke with a candor he never bestowed on me before or after. He felt the Kennedy administration was in serious trouble, losing the cold war to the Soviet Union and losing the legislative war to conservatives in Congress. He said that he had done everything the Kennedys had wanted, including foreign missions that only guaranteed him bad publicity.

          He was repaid with insults and humiliation, especially from the attorney general. Johnson  was sure Bobby Kennedy was plotting to dump him in 1964. "But I'm going to fool them," he said. "I'm going to pack it in after the term ends and go home to Texas." That would have been a huge scoop, but I knew Johnson was just blowing off steam.

          As for going back to Texas, the political environment there was hardly more congenial for LBJ than it was in Washington. Johnson's protege, John B. Connally, had just won the Democratic nomination for governor of Texas, which still all but guaranteed election in Texas. As secretary of the Navy, Connally had been the highest Kennedy administration official bearing the LBJ brand.

           But campaigning for governor, Connally removed the brand. With JFK and LBJ both unpopular in Texas, Connally ran against the administration he had just left, and won. Talking about Big John in that summer evening in 1962 led Johnson into self-pity. "John has turned my picture to the wall," LBJ told me. "You know I would never turn his picture to the wall."

 QUOTE

 [Robert Novak, The Prince of Darkness, pp. 90-91]

 

Lyndon Johnson told Liz and Leslie Carpenter in the fall of 1963 that he was get off the 1964 Democratic ticket before the Kennedys could kick him off of it. Liz Carpenter was a longtime LBJ partisan who became Lady Bird’s press secretary in the White House 

(LBJ’s “right hand man” Bobby Baker had resigned as Secretary of the Senate on 10/7/63)

 QUOTE

 But denying any intent to dump Johnson was good politics. There is no doubt that if scandal sank the vice president, not a tear would have been shed in the White House. More important, Johnson believed the Kennedys wanted him off the ticket. Shortly after the Baker scandal broke, Johnson had dinner with friends, including Liz and Leslie Carpenter. Johnson's car took the couple home and Johnson rode with them. "Park in the driveway and let's talk a few minutes," Johnson said. "I think I'm going to announce that I'm not going to run again for vice president so that I can get off that ticket before they try to knock me off. What I would like to do is go back to Texas and be president of Southwest Texas State Teachers College."

 UNQUOTE

 [Randall Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, p. 414, Leslie Carpenter oral history]

[Kevin Balch]

On 4/30/2024 at 10:30 AM, Robert Morrow said:

But campaigning for governor, Connally removed the brand. With JFK and LBJ both unpopular in Texas, Connally ran against the administration he had just left, and won. Talking about Big John in that summer evening in 1962 led Johnson into self-pity. "John has turned my picture to the wall," LBJ told me. "You know I would never turn his picture to the wall."

This would argue against Connolly urging JFK to visit Texas. I have seen some sources say the purpose of the trip was actually to raise money in Texas rather than mend the LBJ-Yarborough split.

Did LBJ ever comment on Connolly joining the Nixon cabinet? I have heard recording of a a Connolly-Johnson phone call from 1967 which discussed the JFK assassination.

[Robert Morrow]

https://home.treasury.gov/about/history/prior-secretaries/john-b-connally-1971-1972 

The purpose of the Texas Trip was to put a bullet into JFK's head and Lyndon Johnson orchestrated this. He (LBJ) lured JFK to Texas by using Cong. Albert Thomas to plead with JFK to come to a dinner honoring him in Houston.

Cong. Albert Thomas was the one winking at LBJ just after the JFK assassination.

CONG. ALBERT THOMAS WAS A COLLEGE ROOMMATE OF BROWN AND ROOT'S GEORGE BROWN WHO WAS LBJ'S GREATEST LIFETIME SUGAR DADDY, ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER HERMAN BROWN. In 1963, CIA-connected George Brown worked for Halliburton which had bought out Brown and Root in 1962. One of LBJ's first statements after becoming president was "I've got to sell my goddamn Halliburton stock" - see Russ Baker's book Family of Secrets for that.

Both Connally and Yarborough, who hated each other, deny that the purpose of the Texas trip was to "heal a rift" in the Democratic party. That is just a bucket of horsefeathers.

Just as saying that LBJ was placed on the Demo ticket to win Texas for JFK is a bucket of horsefeathers. The Kennedys did not want LBJ and Lyndon Johnson blackmailed his way onto the Democratic ticket precisely because relations with the Kennedys were so acidic.

I don't know what LBJ publicly said about John Connally joining Nixon's cabinet, but I think he was probably very happy about it.

Also, VIETNAM WAR ADDICT LYNDON JOHNSON WAS FOR RICHARD NIXON TO BEAT HUBERT HUMPHREY AND LBJ WAS FOR NIXON TO BEAT MCGOVERN.  Now, LBJ did not *publicly* say that but his nonsupport and undermining of both HHH and McGovern are the proof in the puddy. Clark Clifford said LYNDON JOHNSON WANTED NIXON TO WIN!

Remember anything you hear on an LBJ tape is something that LBJ knows he is being taped saying and LBJ would destroy or not record any conversation which he desired.

From JFK's point of view, the Texas trip was to raise money and also keep the rapidly fading fiction that Kennedy actually wanted LBJ on the ticket when in fact the Kennedys were in high gear systematically destroying Johnson.