27-05-2013, 10:45 AM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Adele Edisen Wrote:Jan,
To assume that Lyndon Johnson was involved in any way in the assassination is based on false beliefs.
Adele
IMO, Johnson spent the hours and days after the assassination trying to shut down the plotters' attempt to blame Castro and the KGB and start World War III. They had spent a lot of time setting up a pro-Castro patsy, staging the Mexico City incident, etc. Who knows what kind of frantic phone calls were being made to get the Joint Chiefs and the CIA to stand down from their Operation Northwoods plan?
But he had to give them a consolation prize. So LBJ told the Joint Chiefs at a Christmas party in December, "Just let me get elected, and then you can have your war." (Vietnam: A History p326, Stanley Karnow)
Hi, Tracy,
Yes, that he did. I believe he also said of the CIA that they were running a "Murder, Incorporated." He knew what they were doing. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were ready to carpet-bomb China and the Soviet Union, even before the aassassination, and invade Cuba..
Let us also remember that every president after Kennedy, excepting the two members of the Bush family, had to fear their own assassinations, even today. Certainly Johnson himself, who was a stronger Democrat than Kennedy was and more prone to dissatisfy the Wall Street elements, many of whom were linked to the plot by Wall Street to overthrow Franklin Delano Roosevelt thirty years before. He shifted attention away from Castro and the Soviet Union "communists" did-it plan of the CIA, because they wanted WAR there! He was under constant heavy pressure all through the 1960s to keep the Vietnam War going, and he wanted out of it. Did you know that he wanted to tell the American people in 1967 that he would not run for re-election in 1968? That's in Busby's book. He did not do it because Bobby Kennedy had not yet made up his mind to run, and Eugene McCarthy was not considered by him a strong candidate, so he waited until March 31, 1968 (the title of the book by Busby), which was two weeks after Bobby Kennedy said he was running for presidemt. It's important to understand this about LBJ. He was a strong Democratic Party man. Many of his decisions were not self-seeking ones. He wanted the best candidate possible. Yes, he disagreed with Bobby, about the Vietnam War, but he also knew that Bobby could end it. He knew he was the best possible one and so he had waited months before he stepped down, when Bobby was going to run.
Adele