#LyndonJohnson

[saramackenzie1982]

Today is another anniversary: signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Afford, beginning the end of US involvement in Vietnam. This isn't going to explain the event, but more to say to remember everyday. My father's uncle and his dear friend went to Vietnam. My husband was in the Middle East. They came home to heckling and harassment. Don't be that protester that calls them a baby k*ller. Just because they fought in a war you don't believe in, doesn't make you a justice warrior to get in their face about their MOS and assignments. Don't protest military funerals. Stop being disrespectful. Welcome them home. Honor and remember. #NotAnotherAnniversary #HistoryLesson #ParisPeaceAccords #VietnamWar #LyndonJohnson #RichardNixon #AmericanPolitics #ICameHomeToNothing #MilitaryVeteran #POWMIA #Empathy #Gratitude #VeteranWife #NeverForget https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7bZHhplMz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[stevegronka]

#Repost @q_sent_us with @get_repost ・・・ #Repost • @xservative A very iconic photo where the one guys winking to the next president after JFK assassination with JFK's wife in the foreground still wearing the dress with her husband's blood on it on the way to the inauguration. #Repost @the_paint_on_anon #hisnamewassethrich #clintonbodycount 🇺🇸WWG1WGA🇺🇸 🇺🇸 @realdonaldtrump 🇺🇸 #SaveAmerica #wwg1wga 🇺🇸 WakeUpAmerica 🇺🇸 #FactsMatter 🇺🇸 #TheGreatAwakening 🇺🇸 #SheepNoMore 🇺🇸 #JohnFKennedy #JFK #johnfkennedyjr #assassination #treason #LyndonJohnson #LyndonBainesJohnson #illuminati #OneWorldGovernment #FederalReserve #UN #UnitedNations #IMF #InternationalMonetaryFund #worldbank https://www.instagram.com/p/B7TeRFHF9LH/?igshid=bs13mojyl3o6

[ivovynckier]

I was finally able to find Oliver Stone’s (@officialoliverstone) new documentary on DVD - thanks to a German edition. “JFK Revisited” doesn’t discuss ALL the fishy elements you find in the Warren Report, just the new material that was discovered in the latest years. (If you want a full overview of this complex case, watch Stone’s movie “JFK” from 1991. It belongs on your shortlist of best movies ever made!) I’ve read dozens of books on the subject - the ones written by sane investigators, not the crazy conspiracy stuff where umbrellas shoot flechettes in Dealey Plaza and presidential corpses are switched at Dallas’ airport Love Field but still discovered new material. It’s uncanny to hear Lyndon Johnson (“LBJ”) and a member of the Warren Commission say over the phone that the magic bullet theory was poppycock because that’s the very lemon they sold to the public… Once again, the press has ignored the documentary but don’t let that bother you. Watch this gem and decide for yourselves! #oliverstone #jfk #jfkrevisited #documentary #movie #movies #film #films #president #potus #coldwar #CIA #lbj #lyndonjohnson #conspiracy #jfkmurder #dallas #murder #crime #dvd #dvds #dvdcollection #dvdcollector #texas #dealeyplaza @officialoliverstone (at Dealey Plaza) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbnMLSaKJc0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[djactionslacks]

An evening with Wildman James is guaranteed to be filled with precious historic artifacts. Thanks for fun times @mrmaeda! #LyndonJohnson #vinylcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnl2km9BVSL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v5gjchuf3tw3

[omuseum]

#DYK LBJ is H's favorite president. Check out this Lyndon B. Johnson signed inaugural letter at O Museum in The Mansion.

[progressiveparty]

A lesson about Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden for progressives in doubt

If you think about the history, LBJ was a surprising progressive standard bearer. Biden will be, too. He was a vice president of a charismatic president adored by liberals. He had a long record in the Senate, with a history of savvy deal-making that was seen as an asset to a less experienced younger president, a newcomer to Washington. And as he ran for the presidency in his own right, he was distrusted by a left newly ascendant in their party. That distrust was born of a record on race that seemed anachronistic to a younger generation. That description of Lyndon Johnson could easily be used for Joe Biden. And in that symmetry is a lesson for liberals. Because as president, Johnson would have the most effective progressive record on race and class of any Democratic president in the past 80 years. The foundational principles of modern liberalism — civil rights and greater economic equality — took further strides during Johnson’s presidency than any since the New Deal. But ironically enough, as he assumed power and ran on his own for the presidency, his presidency was feared by liberals. When President John Kennedy died, civil rights leaders like Roger Wilkins and James Farmer openly fretted that a Southern senator with a questionable record would be a step back in civil rights. Instead, much to the surprise of liberals of his day, Johnson used his unrivaled experience in Congress to shape and ultimately pass liberal touchstones like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a bill that had festered in the Kennedy administration. A centrist, if not conservative for his day, Johnson had the sway and power to push conservative Democrats in his own party to accede to it. It was during his campaign for the presidency that Johnson developed the ideas behind the Great Society — legislation that would fuel the war on poverty. Universal programs like Medicare and anti-poverty programs like Medicaid and support for poor schools, through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, were all passed after Johnson was reelected. How exactly was Johnson able to pass the Great Society legislation and the Voting Rights Act? Of course, he was a savvy deal-maker. But the key to these legislative victories was the size of his election victory. Johnson beat Barry Goldwater by 61% to 39% with 486 electoral votes to Goldwater’s 52. One of the greatest landslide victories in American history. He had the mandate to pass his agenda because of the nature of his victory. It was a mandate that led to the most significant expansion of health care in our country’s history. The second-largest expansion was the Affordable Care Act. Of course, Johnson’s mandate was driven not just by the death of Kennedy but also by the extreme nature of Goldwater’s campaign. Goldwater wanted Social Security to be optional, but Goldwater, like Donald Trump, stood firmly against the country’s forward movement on race, opposing the Civil Rights Act that Johnson just had passed in 1964. And Johnson campaigned hard against Goldwater’s extremism and successfully argued he was the mainstream candidate. This Piece Originally Appeared in www.app.com Read the full article

[philippecombaz]

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[historyatnih]

I think our archivist likes this photo because of the story.  On August 9, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson was bending down to talk to a boy who recently received two new heart valves at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. When background noise created by the assembled dignitaries prevented the President from hearing the sounds of these valves, Johnson stood up and demanded “Quiet!” Suddenly, the clicking of the valves was immediately audible to all.

From left to right: Surgeon General Luther Terry, Senator Lister Hill, President Johnson and the patient, Dr. Andrew Morrow, and Dr. Donald Fredrickson. Other people are unidentified.

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[yourstreetbedford]

In 1967 today, #lyndonjohnson nominated #thurgoodmarshall for the #supremecourt ... he would become one of the greatest jurists and judges our country has had.... www.bedfordstmarketing.com #hcalumni #stamforddowntown #civilwarhistory #ushistory #businessowner #entrepreneur #business #smallbusiness #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurlife #success #marketing #motivation #startup #hustle #entrepreneurs #digitalmarketing #smallbusinessowner #branding #entrepreneurlifestyle #onlinebusiness #socialmediamarketing #mindset #socialmedia #inspiration #instagood (at Bedford Street Marketing) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bypu_KTJemx/?igshid=kyelnqwh9i96

[ritware1850]

#Repost @skorpioking18.3 ・・・ 🤔 Yes! He really said this. Look it up. #LyndonJohnson #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Manipulation Fight the #bigotry #racists #hate #whitesupremacy #domesticterrorism #KKK #charlottesville #Virginia #america #policelivesmatter #bluelivesmatter #charlottesville #whitenationalist #blacklivesmatter #kkk #bluebloods #terrorists #whiteterrorism #whiteterrorist #neonazi #whitesupremacists #whitelivesmatter #blacklivesmatter #BoycottTheNFL #trump #colinkaepernick

[stevegronka]

There you go Democrat/Socialist/Communists, this is an example of the new normal that you are trying to get decent people to accept!!! All who condone, endorse, promote, and support lawlessness and savage behavior are degenerates as bad as it gets. Racism #race #racism #color #black #brown #yellow #red #white #caucasion #BLM #blacklivesmatter #alllivesmatter #human #racist #alsharpton #louisfarrakhan #obama #biden #clinton #lyndonjohnson #MargaretSanger #naacp #kkk #civilrights #humanrights https://www.instagram.com/p/CEoojZ_FFCR/?igshid=ctrko4avh5jp

[franksynowicz-blog]

USAP36 #LyndonBJohnson#LBJ#LyndonJohnson#Johnson#digitalart#newmedia#computerart#franksynowicz#digitalartist#cyberart#surreal42#surrealart#contemporaryart#president#thetaxcollection#uspresidents#presidentsoftheunitedstatesofamerica#Americanpresidents#presidentsoftheusa (at Downtown LA Art Walk)

[sinetos]

I greet you as the shapers of American society. #LyndonJohnson #Lyndon #Johnson #quote #sinetos #quotes (at Santorini caldera) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsNvNe_g0WC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b2p5me31qj2u

[gazetteweekly]

NRA SILENT AS AMIR LOCKE SLAIN BY POLICE FOR HAVING A GUN HE LEGALLY OWNED

THE FIRST GUN control organization in the United States was formed after the Civil War by white Southerners bothered by the fact that enslaved people were now free, entitled to vote, and arming themselves to defend that freedom. The group called itself the Ku Klux Klan and organized for the first time in 1866. They were often made up of local leaders like sheriffs and judges, and would use the force of law to disarm Black communities before rampaging through them.

“Before these midnight marauders made attacks upon peaceful citizens, there were very many instances in the South where the sheriff of the county had preceded them and taken away the arms of their victims,” said Rep. Benjamin Butler in 1871, pushing for passage of laws aimed at taking down the Klan. “This was especially noticeable in Union County, where all the Negro population were disarmed by the sheriff only a few months ago under the order of the judge…; and then, the sheriff having disarmed the citizens, the five hundred masked men rode at nights and murdered and otherwise maltreated the ten persons who were in jail in that county.”

The so-called Black Codes in the South, pushed by the Klan, included laws that specifically banned Black people from owning guns. When federal law intervened, states and localities would tweak the laws to ban the kind of cheap models that were affordable to both poor Black and white people, and would set up other legal red tape, similar to poll taxes, making it technically legal to own a gun but functionally impossible. The white terrorists of the South outnumbered the freedmen, but they were only able to overwhelm them with violence after they’d first disarmed the people they’d then attack.

The second push for gun control came about a century later, again in the wake of Black people arming up in self defense. After the Black Panthers began openly carrying firearms, Don Mulford, a conservative Republican, pushed a bill banning open carry, specifically aimed at the Black Panthers, with the support of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense marched on the state Capitol to protest the laws.

Shortly after, the Mulford Act passed with, as Reason magazine reported, the support of the National Rifle Association. “I am sure you are aware that I am very grateful to the National Rifle Association for its help in making my gun control bill, AB 1591, a workable piece of legislation, yet protecting the Constitutional rights of citizens,” Mulford wrote in a letter.

The NRA was founded in 1871 by former Union officers, and for years was largely a hunters’ organization and social club that lobbied on the side. Its evolution into a more political organization came with the rise of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. It followed its support of California’s new law with opposition to President Lyndon Johnson’s national gun control legislation in 1968. For the next several decades, it pursued a bipartisan strategy, relying on its lock on both parties to stop legislation in its tracks, but culturally began drifting further to the right. Over the past decade, the NRA became a major force in culture war, evolving into as much a pro-police organization as a pro-gun group.

In 2016, officers pulled Philando Castile over for a broken tail light in the St. Paul suburbs in Minnesota. He was a licensed gun owner and told the officer he was carrying; he was gunned down anyway. The NRA, however, stayed conspicuously silent even under public pressure. More than a year later, after the officer was acquitted, then-NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch went on CNN and acknowledged the killing as a “tragedy” and “awful.”

“There are a lot of variables in this particular case, and there were a lot of things that I wish would have been done differently,” Loesch said.

It’s not as if the NRA doesn’t support a right to armed self-defense. The group spent years lobbying state legislatures to implement so-called Stand Your Ground laws. When George Zimmerman leaned on such a law in Florida after killing Trayvon Martin, the NRA called such statutes a “human right.”

In 2018, E.J. Bradford, a young, Black Army veteran with a license to carry, was in a mall when gunshots broke out. He drew his weapon — standing his ground — and cops instantly shot him dead and later blamed him for “brandishing” his weapon. The NRA stayed silent.

In March 2020, Louisville, Kentucky, police smashed their way into the apartment of Kenneth Walker. He was with Breonna Taylor and thought her ex-boyfriend had broken in, so he ran to get his gun, which he was legally permitted to own. Police shot him, and also shot and killed Taylor. The NRA was silent.

Last Wednesday, police in the Twin Cities again executed a no-knock warrant, smashing their way into an apartment in the dead of night. Amir Locke was asleep on the couch. Scared for his life and no doubt dazed from being woken up by intruders, he fumbled for his weapon, which he was legally allowed to carry. In seconds, police shot and killed him. To its credit, the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus released a statement demanding an investigation.

“The NRA has not commented — we have a longstanding policy of not commenting on ongoing investigations,” Amy Hunter, an NRA spokesperson, told The Intercept.

In late 2012, after the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA was faced with a strategic choice: Recognize that lax gun laws had gone too far and find some reasonable compromise, or dig in. The NRA decided to make its stand, blaming mental health care and video games for the shooting. “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun,” NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre famously said.

Who the NRA decides to stand up for — whose life matters, and whose doesn’t — lets us know what LaPierre meant by good.

[yums-ville]

Put This On: LBJ Buys Pants

In 1964, Lyndon Johnson needed pants, so he called the Haggar clothing company and asked for some. The call was recorded (like all White House calls at the time), and has since become the stuff of legend. Johnson’s anatomically specific directions to Mr. Haggar are some of the most intimate words we’ve ever heard from the mouth of a President. We at Put This On took the historic original audio and gave it to animator Tawd Dorenfeld, who created this majestic fantasia of bungholiana.

Enjoy this special treat from Put This On: LBJ Orders Pants. Then share it with a friend who loves pants. putthison.com polymorphproductions.com/

[sgerbman]

This is a good article about a problem most people don’t even realize still exists, lack of access to the Internet. In rural Appalachia, options are few, unreliable and expensive. 

I have thought this for a while, that if the Congress of today had been in charge back in the 1930s and 1940s, rural America would still be living without electricity and would be told it was all their fault. Lyndon Johnson was a crook and probably a terrible human being, but he grasped that private companies would never bear the expense of running lines to rural areas because it wasn’t cost effective. Johnson used the power of government to bring electricity to his beloved hill country of Texas.There is a scene in Robert Caro’s biography in which a family who had been out all day came home and thought their house was on fire because the power came on while they were out. Can you even imagine how bright it must have been, lit up in the night like that? 

Access to the Internet today is as vital as electrification was almost 100 years ago. The good news in the article above is that there are serious, bipartisan efforts to solve this problem for Tennesseans, at least. It’s not as simple as telling people who have lived in the same place for generations to pick up and move. I want as much of the unique culture of my state as possible to survive, and that includes letting people live in the mountains if they want to. They got electricity. We can get them reliable broadband. It’s not just for Netflix after all.