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Best thing about this is the incredible sources that were used:

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October 3, 1960 -one of the most fateful days in the lives of both Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy. Kennedy defeated Johnson's bid for the Democratic nomination and went on to run for the presidency. Johnson received the consolation prize and was Kennedy's running mate in the bid to take the White House. The odd collusion produced the winning ticket. Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States and Lyndon Johnson became his Vice President.

Lyndon Johnson didn't leave any memoirs about the stressful relationship he shared with Kennedy while he was Vice President. Kennedy planned to write his when he retired... Regardless, the secrecy and deceit that Johnson and cohorts maintained and promoted in the deliberate effort to mask the truth, cannot credibly cover up the inevitable tension produced by two personalities as different as Johnson and Kennedy. Ted Sorensen, White House adviser and Special Council to the President (1961-64) aptly described the stark contrast in the following terms: "It is hard to imagine a man more different from Kennedy than Lyndon Johnson. His success in the ways of Capitol Hill had made him cunning where JFK was candid, secretive instead of open, preferring the process of manoeuvre to the substance of decision."1 As Kennedy's term progressed, he "grew more and more concerned about what would happen if LBJ ever became President."2




Sorensen-bashers revel in the claim that the contrast between Kennedy and Johnson was more imagined than real. They like to promote the claim that the sole interest of the so-called "Kennedy loyalists" was to paint a larger than life image of President Kennedy. But Ted Sorensen is first and foremost, an intelligent, competent historian, and the historical record regarding the stark contrast between Kennedy and Johnson is absolutely indisputable. There is indeed no legitimate way to dispute the simple fact that Kennedy and Johnson drifted further and further apart as the Kennedy administration progressed. In particular, Johnson retreated behind a wall of silence while Kennedy became more and more convinced that secrecy discouraged freedom, damaged credibility and challenged democratic ideals. Seeking to apply the belief that freedom and peace demanded accommodation rather than confrontation, Kennedy began to forge a foreign policy that challenged the impending lunacy of the Cold War. In the eyes of paranoid zealots, the real "lunacy" was the openness that Kennedy encouraged. The Cold War had defined an unchallengeable course of action and anyone who questioned the direction of the journey was fiercely opposed. At the start of his Administration, Kennedy rode the ideological Cold War tide and blindly approved what has been often branded the ill-timed and ill-planned invasion of Cuba. In actual fact, the hopeless plan to launch a successful invasion through a band of Cuban revolutionary exiles, was neither ill-fated, nor ill-planned. In the face of disclosure, it did not take a military genius to determine that the plan was doomed from the start. But zealots within Kennedy's administration had sought to coax the President into declaring an all-out military assault on Cuba and had deliberately lied to President Kennedy who had made it clear that the Bay of Pigs operation "must be carried through without any combat action by the USA military forces". The real significance behind the Bay of Pigs is not the so-called miscalculation, but the manipulation or the deceptive intelligence which caused Kennedy to go along with the scheme. CIA Director Allan Dulles conceded the manipulative effort to commit Kennedy to war over Cuba when he said:

We felt that when the chips were down -when the crisis arose in reality, any action required for success would be authorized rather than permit the enterprise to fail.3

The plan to provoke a Cuban invasion failed. Kennedy refused to let the "enterprise" dictate policy and Allan Dulles was promptly fired. And so, while the President had approved an invasion by Cuban revolutionary exiles, he had rejected a Cold War scheme to "Americanize" the military effort.
Ironically, the aborted Bay of Pigs invasion, the most often cited embarrassment of the Kennedy administration, is often used to promote the claim that Kennedy was a reckless Cold Warrior. However, when all the facts are carefully scrutinized, the aborted Bay of Pigs invasion reflected Kennedy's determination to reject mindless Cold War politics and assumptions. The facts and the consequences are absolutely clear; the plot to coax the invasion that zealots had crafted failed, Kennedy accepted full responsibility for the aborted invasion and developed a deep and abiding distrust towards all mindless, military, foreign policy schemes that threatened to suck America to war. In particular, the obsessive zeal to destroy communism was ultimately behind every fiasco, from the Bay of Pigs, to the mindless commitment of American combat troops in Vietnam.
Kennedy despised the secrecy and the deception of Cold War politics and challenged all extreme points of view. The sharp contrast between the openness he sought to promote and the secretive deceptions that Johnson routinely practised is absolutely astounding. Lyndon Johnson was a defiant character who resented every authority except his own, and the manipulative, artful dodger routinely masterminded schemes in secrecy in order to pre-empt thoughtful opposition. The behind-the-scenes operator who pulled strings to consolidate power was clearly anything but a conciliatory negotiator of the Kennedy substance and style. Even as a young man, Johnson mirrored the character traits that guided his political career in Washington. The hunger for power, the extreme defiance and the drive to use and manipulate everyone around him were lifelong traits which dictated the phenomenal achievements as well as the phenomenal blunders of Lyndon Johnson. And in the last analysis, the arrogance, the defiance, the vanity and the deception that motivated Lyndon Johnson produced a tell-tale trail of reliable evidence which ultimately exposes the truth behind elaborate deceptions. Indeed, when the public relations schemes which obscure the stark contrast between history and propaganda are exposed, deliberate misrepresentations collapse and simple facts, like the secretive motivation which claimed the life of President Kennedy, become glaringly obvious.
It is difficult, if not impossible to define a circumstance where the dominant will of Lyndon Johnson did not ultimately triumph. When he graduated from high school, he defiantly rejected a parental life-long wish to have a son attend college and traded the opportunity to receive an education for a year of odd jobs -he picked fruit, washed dishes, waited on tables and worked on a road gang driving bulldozers. In the end, it was the toil of paving heat-drenched Texas county highways for a dollar a day, that prompted Lyndon Johnson to attend San Marcos College in 1927. At San Marcos, campus politics were exclusively controlled by an "in crowd" of athletes known as the Black Stars. Johnson sought to join the Black Stars, but his bid to become a member was rejected. Widely known as "the biggest liar on campus" and having deservingly earned the nick-name "Bullshit Johnson", the future President did not exactly develop the knack to open doors on the strength of his credibility. Regardless, Johnson's relentless determination to control the political climate at San Marcos ultimately prevailed. When a rival political group, the White Stars, was formed, Johnson promptly set his sights on the effort to join the new, less popular organization. The White Stars also rejected "O1 Bull" but Johnson was too persistent to be denied. He befriended three quiet country boys who thought that he was entertaining, and after repeatedly submitting his name for nomination, the White Stars finally granted him membership. Members began to feel sorry for him, and according to the co-founder; "What difference did it make? I mean the White Stars weren't supposed to be any big deal." To most, the White Stars were just another opportunity to meet girls. But to Lyndon Johnson, the secretive organization was a vehicle which satisfied his drive to cultivate power. Indeed before long, Johnson singlehandedly turned the otherwise obscure organization, the White Stars, into the dominant political force on campus. The success of White Star political candidates was essentially due to the determination and the tireless campaigning of Lyndon Johnson, whose "greatest forte was to look a man in the eye and do a convincing job of selling him his viewpoint. In one-on-one salesmanship, Lyndon was the best." When political tact and aggressive campaigning was not enough, Johnson created elaborate plots to defeat meritorious political rivals like Medie Kyle, "a voracious reader, and a brilliant student who received in reality the A's that Johnson only said he received..." Legitimate tactics did not survive behind-the-scenes manipulations that targeted and destroyed Johnson's political opponents. When fellow student Medie Kyle threatened Johnson's political aspirations, Johnson simply created a regulation that disqualified Kyle's candidacy, and he had worked behind Kyle's back so secretively that his involvement was not even suspected. Indeed Johnson, who cheerfully greeted him on campus, sustained the impression that he and Kyle were the best of friends. As long as the fact that Lyndon Johnson had deliberately disqualified a worthy political opponent was not publicly promoted, it did not appear to matter.

This work is impressively documented:

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What a propagandist Johnson was !

"There's only one sure way of getting favourable stories from reporters and that is to keep their daily bread-the information, the stories, the plans, and the details they need for their work-in your hands, so that you can give it out when and to whom you want. Even then nothing's guaranteed, but at least you've got the chance to bargain.22 "

The guy made Bush look like an amateur !

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Big font up there.

Latherty

Thats some of the biggest font I've seen for a while....
Must be saying something real important, with font like that.

Nerdo

I can only assume. Maybe someone else can read it and get back to us.

Think for myself

Amazing. That much space taken up and it was still not worth reading. How do I know? I read it and now I am lamenting the lost 5 minutes of my life that were utterly wasted.

Tick, on irony

Yea, well genious is hard to beat, but, at least we try.

Nerdo

I figured my retinas wouldn't be able to take the strain of reading that...so I avoided it.