Posted on 05/15/2014 2:03:41 PM PDT by george76
What an idiot. Get lost. Go away.
Okay, thanks for letting me know. Goodbye, Mr. Bush.
http://www.amazon.com/A-Texan-Looks-at-Lyndon/dp/1568490097
37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
You have been warned
By Randall Ivey on July 31, 2000
Format: Paperback
Haley wrote this book (and published it himself) in 1964 basically as a campaign tract for Barry Goldwater. In the intervening years it has become a classic of its kind,a philippic, to use M.E. Bradford’s term, tracing the illegitimate rise to power of Lyndon Baines Johnson. If you’re politically naive, this book will grown hair on your chest. It’s an unblinking, fearless portrait of Johnson’s wheeling dealing and underhanded methods to achieve the power, prestige, and money he craved all his life. Haley names all the names and lays out facts and figures for the reader to make up his mind. And the reader winds up shaking his head in utter astonishment. The best part of the book is that detailing Johnson’s eventual election to the U.S. Senate in a contest with former Gov. Coke Stevenson. The election was clearly Stevenson’s, but through the machinations of George Parr, the notorious Duke of Duval County, the results were turned around in LBJ’s favor. Investigators later found that among those voting in the primary were people who didn’t live in the county anymore and people who weren’t alive at all. But the results stood.
Oh please don’t run! Aside from what we have now, LBJ was about the worst president we ever had.
Ah Geez.
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Seriously? Lyndon Johnson’s presidency is what made me register as a Republican.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Texans are still looking at Lyndon, August 8, 2013
By southtexas boy “texas speed reader” (corpus christi, texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Texan Looks at Lyndon (Paperback)
I have read this book no fewer than 10 times. I actually worked for a family that was very close to Lyndon and were the recipients of untold wealth because of it. As tax payers, my parents paid for the perks that Lyndon garnished for himself and others. The Kwajalein Island project which should have cost 6 million dollars was awarded to a firm who employed Lyndon’s brother. with the help of then Secretary of the Navy, Texan John Connally, this contract was awarded on a cost plus basis. This eventually cost the tax payers of this Country 16 million dollars. I hesitate to provide specifics about this event. After I read this book and others on the subject, it made me keenly aware of what our distinguished politicians will resort to. A lot of people around Johnson had a tendency to die at an early age or under suspicious circumstances. Just a little scary. It makes you wonder about our current group of political leaders. Can or will they resort to the same activity as Johnson and his “good ole boys”?
Maybe he meant Andrew Johnson.
If so, Obama might want to call off his Dallas motorcade in November 2015. But don’t you be telling him.
He has been in the Florida sun too long.
What is that guy smoking? LBJ was one of the most corrupt men in politics and that is as saying something.
Maybe Bush hopes for a war like Vietnam too.
So this Bush, too, would be using false flags to herd the sheeple. Got it.
Either that or drop trou and take a dump in front of reporters.
Practice voter fraud, mock Blacks behind their backs and to their faces, start money wasting programs, show is penis to anyone he thought he could shock and screw interns as often as Clinton. Is that what you’re shooting for Jeb, you idiot?
What was he thinking? That would be like if some hopeful Democrat announced they planned to govern like Richard Nixon.
Exactly!
OH %#&@ NO!!!!
What a friggin' BUFFOON!
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