01-10-2012, 08:59 AM
Albert
At 38:40 Caro says in all his research into LBJ's papers, diaries, people who knew him he found not the slightest hint that LBJ had anything to do with the assassination.
Are we to be comforted that a professional politician didn't leave a smoking gun, that the national security apparatus didn't leave any smoking guns?
I personally don't think that enormous slug had anything to do with the vital work of eliminating the roadblock to the Vietnam War, but I wouldn't rely upon a lack of evidentiary substance in the surviving record.
Our late friend (who died November 22, 2007) related to Caro in a two-page letter the curious visit to the Boston financial house in the summer of 1963 by an irate Eliot Janeway hissing a prepared speech about the dangerous man this Kennedy was.
Eliot Janeway, first among sponsors of the presidential bid of the slug, yet it was apparently just chopped liver to the so-great biographer.
I wouldn't for a moment place a thimbleful of value in any disclaimer by this man regarding his rice bowl's guilt or innocence.
As for Caro's subtext regarding assassination, he's clearing Lyndon; beyond that, nothing.
Which makes Caro utterly worthless.
Caro becomes a critic reviewing Our American Cousin.
At 38:40 Caro says in all his research into LBJ's papers, diaries, people who knew him he found not the slightest hint that LBJ had anything to do with the assassination.
Are we to be comforted that a professional politician didn't leave a smoking gun, that the national security apparatus didn't leave any smoking guns?
I personally don't think that enormous slug had anything to do with the vital work of eliminating the roadblock to the Vietnam War, but I wouldn't rely upon a lack of evidentiary substance in the surviving record.
Our late friend (who died November 22, 2007) related to Caro in a two-page letter the curious visit to the Boston financial house in the summer of 1963 by an irate Eliot Janeway hissing a prepared speech about the dangerous man this Kennedy was.
Eliot Janeway, first among sponsors of the presidential bid of the slug, yet it was apparently just chopped liver to the so-great biographer.
I wouldn't for a moment place a thimbleful of value in any disclaimer by this man regarding his rice bowl's guilt or innocence.
As for Caro's subtext regarding assassination, he's clearing Lyndon; beyond that, nothing.
Which makes Caro utterly worthless.
Caro becomes a critic reviewing Our American Cousin.