02-09-2010, 07:49 PM
Gil, I need to find the documentarysource for a video clip you posted on You Tube: "Johnson wants Jackie to ride with him"
It was a clip of JFK's good friend Florida Senator George Smathers, talking about a conversation he had with JFK just before JFK went to Dallas, Smathers reports this this blockbuster nugget:
JFK: “Gee, I really hate to go to Texas. I gotta go to Texas next week and its just a pain in the rear end and I just don’t want to go, I wish I could get out of it.
George Smathers: I said “Well, what’s the problem?”
JFK: “Well, you know how Lyndon is, Johnson wants Jackie to ride with him, and all these fights were going on…. I hate to go into all that mess and I hate to go and I wish I could think of a way to get out of it.”
It was a clip of JFK's good friend Florida Senator George Smathers, talking about a conversation he had with JFK just before JFK went to Dallas, Smathers reports this this blockbuster nugget:
JFK: “Gee, I really hate to go to Texas. I gotta go to Texas next week and its just a pain in the rear end and I just don’t want to go, I wish I could get out of it.
George Smathers: I said “Well, what’s the problem?”
JFK: “Well, you know how Lyndon is, Johnson wants Jackie to ride with him, and all these fights were going on…. I hate to go into all that mess and I hate to go and I wish I could think of a way to get out of it.”