13-05-2012, 09:01 AM
Albert Doyle Wrote:I'm not sure that the Great Society makes Lyndon's gangster murders in Texas go away. Adele, aren't you kind of making my point for me? (Is this a case Texas myopia?) There's a lot of Texans who think George Bush was a great American president too.
What gangster murders in Texas are you talking about? Where is the evidence? What is the evidence? The facts, not opinions or fantasies. Please don't repeat names of sleazy authors - I've read them, too.
Lyndon Johnson tried to keep John Kennedy from visiting Dallas because of possible embarrassing acts from the extreme right-wingers and militants there. The Democratic Party ticket of 1960 did not do well in Dallas. Henry B. Gonzalez, a highly respected Texas Congressman, also warned Kennedy and his staff to avoid Dallas, and there were others who did the same. These people knew what types of people lived in Dallas, and they had experienced their hatred. I have provided references to this information in many previous postings, and am getting tired of repeating the information over and over. If you don't want to know, then it's not my problem anymore, but yours.
Those who want to believe that Lyndon Johnson had something to do with the assassination of President Kennedy, as far as I am concerned, can go on and continue with their beliefs and enjoy themselves, but these beliefs cannot solve the crime of the murder of John Kennedy.
Lyndon Johnson is considered to be a transformative and progressive president by historians. I doubt that biographers, such as Caro and others, are conspiring, as you had said, "to sweeten" the story for any reason.
Adele