Albert Doyle Wrote:I think LBJ had foreknowledge because of the game of musical chairs he tried to play in the limousine.

Magda Hassan Wrote:The Presidency is just an office a person can hold. It has limited power but much prestige. The powerful don't mind who holds office as long as they don't interfere. Window dressing. Curtains. That this was LBJ's biggest ambition says how cheap and easily pleased he was not to mention a man of limited imagination and no vision. Meanwhile behind the curtains others were involved in events to remove the main obstacle to their continued expansion of power. Was LBJ a Mastermind? No. Was he powerful? Only in the small fishpond of Texas he might have had some leverage. Was he useful? Yes. Especially after the fact. Did he benefit? You bet. But he was happy enough with the shiny things that made is ego full. But what ever he got it was from someone else's work and they got a lot more than LBJ ever could imagine. All he had to do was play his role. But it was some one else who wrote that script and directing.