I bet Jeb Bush didn't see this book in his home when he was growing up. My parents had two copies of it in our house.
WTF is wrong with this guy?
Heard on Glenn Beck today that ol’ Jebbie gets $$$ from Common Core testing. Disgusting to think he profits from the downfall of the American education system.
Please...NO MORE BUSHES Please
I bet Jeb Bush didn't see this book in his home when he was growing up. My parents had two copies of it in our house.
OMG, LBJ totally destroyed this country.
Now we know what will be waiting for us if we were so foolish to vote for JB.
This guy must have a brain tumor or something.....
This does not even make sense.
Besides being a liberal boondoggle, LBJ left office in disgrace after presiding over the worst conducted war in US history, with the nation torn apart.
The other thing he did was push civil rights legislation through, so is Jeb planning on some huge civil rights push for illegals?
I can’t even imagine anyone of either party citing LBJ as a role model president. He left the country in shambles.
He would pull his basset hounds’ ears?
Bm...
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52 of 56 people found the following review helpful
A Devastating Diatribe
By Kurt Harding VINE VOICE on May 31, 2003
Format: Paperback
It would be an understatement to say that author Haley does not like Lyndon Baines Johnson. And despite the fact that his book is an unrelenting tirade against all things Lyndon, it provides a useful service in reminding the reader of how Johnson trampled and double-crossed friend and foe alike in his single-minded lust for power.
I am fairly conservative politically, but I am open-minded enough to recognize and oppose corruption whether practiced by liberals or conservatives. In my lifetime, Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton have been shining examples of the worst impulses in American presidential politics in which greed and lust for either power or money ended up overshadowing any of their real achievements.
Haley shows that Johnson was a man of few real principles, neither liberal nor conservative, but rather a man who usually always wanted to know which way the wind was blowing before taking a stand on any important issue. Johnson was a man who used all his powers of persuasion and veiled threats to get what he wanted and woe unto anyone who stood in his way. He was a man who knew and used the old adage “It’s not what you know, but who you know” to Machiavellian extremes. But he was also a man of sometimes great political courage who would rarely give an inch once he took a stand. He hated those who opposed him, nursed resentments, and wreaked revenge on those who crossed him in the least as most of his enemies and many of his friends learned to their sorrow. From the earliest days, he was involved with corrupt Texas politicians from the local to the state level and swam in the seas of corporate corruption with the likes of the infamous swindler Billy Sol Estes and others of his stripe.
So Jebbie would be a corrupt bully and thug pushing through a radical and destructive leftist agenda.
LBJ was a absolutely horrible president and any one who wishes to emulate him is really, really out of touch with reality.
What an idiot. Get lost. Go away.
Okay, thanks for letting me know. Goodbye, Mr. Bush.
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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.
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
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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”?