05-01-2011, 05:55 PM
LBJ would much rather have his progressive enemy Sen. Ralph Yarborough in the death limo than Jackie, who he was trying to space out of a misplaced sense of "honor" (which, of course LBJ had none). -- Robert Morrow
I find this fact very interesting, but everyone will have to decide for themselves if this was why they wanted Senator Yarborough to ride with JFK or not.
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In 1964, Yarborough again won the primary without a runoff and went on to general election victory with 56.2 percent in LBJ's 1964 Democratic landslide. His Republican Party (GOP) opponent was future president George H. W. Bush who attacked Yarborough as a left-wing demagogue and for his vote in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yarborough denounced Bush as an extremist to the right of that year's GOP nominee for president Barry M. Goldwater and as a rich easterner and a carpetbagger trying to buy a Senate seat. It has since been learned that then Governor Connally was covertly aiding Bush instead of party nominee Yarborough against President Johnson's wishes by teaching the techniques of split ticket voting. In that same election, Connally easily defeated Bush's ticket-mate, Jack Crichton, a Dallas oil and natural gas industrialist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Yarborough
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Also there is this:
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As the Republican candidate who had done well in the losing cause against LBJ and Ralph Yarborough, Bush had good "name recognition" and rather easily won the House seat in a contest with Houston's Democratic district attorney, Frank Briscoe - who made the mistake of calling his opponent a carpetbagger in a district full of carpetbaggers.
http://www.enotalone.com/article/6739.html
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And this quote from the "George Bus - The Unauthorized Biography":
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Bush's unsuccessful attempt in 1964 to unseat Texas Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough is a matter of fundamental interest to anyone seeking to probe the wellsprings of Bush's actual political thinking. In a society which knows nothing of its own recent history, the events of a quarter century ago might be classed as remote and irrelevant. But as we review the profile of the Bush Senate campaign of 1964, what we see coming alive is the characteristic mentality that rules the Oval Office today. The main traits are all there: the overriding obession with the race issue, exemplified in Bush's bitter rejection of the civil rights bill before the Congress during those months; the genocidal bluster in foreign affairs, with proposals for nuclear bombardment of Vietnam, an invasion of Cuba, and a rejection of negotiations for the return of the Panama Canal; the autonomic reflex for union-busting expressed in the rhetoric of "right to work"; the paean to free enterprise at the expense of farmers and the disadvantaged, with all of this packaged in a slick, demagogic television and advertising effort.
http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-b...he-senate/
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Could the reason they wanted Yarborough in the limo be that they knew George Bush was going to run against him for his seat in 1964?
I find this fact very interesting, but everyone will have to decide for themselves if this was why they wanted Senator Yarborough to ride with JFK or not.
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In 1964, Yarborough again won the primary without a runoff and went on to general election victory with 56.2 percent in LBJ's 1964 Democratic landslide. His Republican Party (GOP) opponent was future president George H. W. Bush who attacked Yarborough as a left-wing demagogue and for his vote in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yarborough denounced Bush as an extremist to the right of that year's GOP nominee for president Barry M. Goldwater and as a rich easterner and a carpetbagger trying to buy a Senate seat. It has since been learned that then Governor Connally was covertly aiding Bush instead of party nominee Yarborough against President Johnson's wishes by teaching the techniques of split ticket voting. In that same election, Connally easily defeated Bush's ticket-mate, Jack Crichton, a Dallas oil and natural gas industrialist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Yarborough
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Also there is this:
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As the Republican candidate who had done well in the losing cause against LBJ and Ralph Yarborough, Bush had good "name recognition" and rather easily won the House seat in a contest with Houston's Democratic district attorney, Frank Briscoe - who made the mistake of calling his opponent a carpetbagger in a district full of carpetbaggers.
http://www.enotalone.com/article/6739.html
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And this quote from the "George Bus - The Unauthorized Biography":
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Bush's unsuccessful attempt in 1964 to unseat Texas Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough is a matter of fundamental interest to anyone seeking to probe the wellsprings of Bush's actual political thinking. In a society which knows nothing of its own recent history, the events of a quarter century ago might be classed as remote and irrelevant. But as we review the profile of the Bush Senate campaign of 1964, what we see coming alive is the characteristic mentality that rules the Oval Office today. The main traits are all there: the overriding obession with the race issue, exemplified in Bush's bitter rejection of the civil rights bill before the Congress during those months; the genocidal bluster in foreign affairs, with proposals for nuclear bombardment of Vietnam, an invasion of Cuba, and a rejection of negotiations for the return of the Panama Canal; the autonomic reflex for union-busting expressed in the rhetoric of "right to work"; the paean to free enterprise at the expense of farmers and the disadvantaged, with all of this packaged in a slick, demagogic television and advertising effort.
http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-b...he-senate/
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Could the reason they wanted Yarborough in the limo be that they knew George Bush was going to run against him for his seat in 1964?