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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: flickerful who wrote (7840)	2/20/1998 12:03:00 PM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

<< by the way, robert caro's book is nothing short of brilliant, and i found very readable. >> Flick, What is the title? Thanks. G. W.

To: flickerful who wrote (7840)	2/20/1998 12:08:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

>>ummm, careful, here...please. I am. Glad you asked because I wrote most of it down! Here it is: From LBJ Part I: (more or less exact quotes in order and in time) To LBJ, the Job of VP was humiliating. Bobby hated LBJ and LBJ hated Bobby. LBJ learned that the Kennedys were going to dump him in 1964, he had given up everything for nothing. LBJ said "My future is behind me". Narrator: And then Dallas. Part II: Scene of RFK announcing for President Again: Bobby hated LBJ and LBJ hated Bobby. Lyndon feared that historians would portray him as "the mistake" between the two Kennedys, the now beloved JFK and his younger brother And then Bobby was dead To my best recollection that's the way it was presented. Watch it and see - it was a very startling juxtapositioning of LBJ motive and Kennedy death. That had to be intentional. >>by the way, robert caro's book is nothing short of brilliant, and i found very readable. Since you read Caro and he is considered "the" LBJ authority, it's interesting to note what was left out of the PBS show over the past two nights: - How LBJ became a multimillionaire. Docu said LadyBird bought radio station, Caro showed LBJ extorted station from prior owner and CBS. Later he got the TV stations too. - LBJ's phonied war record. - How LBJ stole the 1948 Senate election from Coke Stevenson. Caro showed that Stevenson was a totally honest and beloved man who felt that his integrity would prevail over Johnson's corruption. The Docu allowed "historian" Dalleck to say Stevenson was a racist - he was not. Stevenson was a Jeffersonian democrat who believed in economy of government. LBJ was a true racist whose greater opportunism trumped that later in his public career. There's much more as you know. I just want to warn anyone out there that loves the ideal of democracy, that while Means of Ascent is great history, the eventual triumph of evil over good, of Johnson over Stevenson, will make you want to cry. Especially noteworthy is the extent that Texas newspapers were in LBJ's pocket - they felt no obligation to tell their readers the truth and acted just the opposite. Still, no one believed for a minute that Stevenson would lose and to this day no one can believe for a minute that Johnson did not steal that election. Watch out: tonight, Nixon's the One!