[Doctor Raoul]

Fulbright = Bomb Throwing Liberal Democrat

There are several points in the interview where HHH as LBJ using "liberal" and "liberal Democrats" as pejoratives.

[NativeNewYorker]

The Southern Manifesto.

[RaceBannon]

have you got a copy of the SOUTHERN MANIFESTO and the signatories?

[Doctor Raoul]

Here's a moral exercise for today's liberal Democrats:

SEE Bill Clinton presenting the Medal of Freedom to Bill Fullbright, but HEAR LBJ's words, "Boys, you've got some boys over here that you're sleeping with day in and day out, like Bill Fulbright, but I wasn't there when they signed that Southern Manifesto. I said no, and your hero said yes. Now how do you justify that?"

And they ask yourselves, "Now how do you justify that?"

[plain talk]

Yeah, Johnson was a shrewd man and wanted to get blacks the right to vote - so they'd vote democrat.

Johnson used to tell me just simply this: "Let me tell you something, Hubert, [about] all this civil rights talk. The thing that we've got to do is get those blacks the right to vote. When they've got that vote power there will be no more of this segregation around here." He said, "That's what will shape up all these people in Congress, because they've got the swing vote." And he said, "Now you fellows are trying to get them public accommodations. You want them to ride in a bus"--and he'd go over all the little things--"but what they need is the vote. That's what I'm going to get them. I'm going to get them the vote power. When they get the vote power, they got the power. You wait and see. In any state where the blacks have got the vote power, you'll see their senators are much more willing to listen to their requests."


More info about LBJ and his strategy on Civil Rights legislature at http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/caro/excerpt.html:

Lyndon Johnson was, in fact, using that word a lot in the Democratic cloakroom that Summer. “Be ready to take up the goddamned nigra bill again,” he told one of the southern senators, Sam Ervin of North Carolina. Walking over to a group of southerners, he told them there was no choice but to take it up, and to pass at least part of it. “I’m on your side, not theirs,” he told them. “But be practical. We’ve got to give the goddamned n------ something.” “Listen,” he told James Eastland of Mississippi, who was anxious to adjourn for the year, “we might as well face it. We’re not gonna be able to get out of here until we’ve got some kind of n----- bill.”

Johnson’s voting record—a record twenty years long, dating back to his arrival in the House of Representatives in 1937 and continuing up to that very day—was consistent with the accent and the word. During those twenty years, he had never supported civil rights legislation—any civil rights legislation. In Senate and House alike, his record was an unbroken one of votes against every civil rights bill that had ever come to a vote: against voting rights bills; against bills that would have struck at job discrimination and at segregation in other areas of American life; even against bills that would have protected blacks from lynching. His first speech in the Senate—a ringing defense of the filibuster that was a key southern tactic—had opened with the words “We of the South,” and thereafter, as this book will demonstrate, he had been not merely a member of the Senate’s southern anti–civil rights bloc, but an active member...

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

This is exactly the point. The RATS may in the end be proven stupid to lift the scab of racism in government, because the historical record is FAR more unfriendly to RATS then to Republicans. Sure, Nixon probably said some things in 1968 to attract Wallace voters, and there are the Willie Horton ads in the 1988 elections. The Republicans are not without their skeletons. But the hand of racial oppression in the country has been by and large, a democratic one, and more and more stories like this one are bound to come out which will corroborate this position. We'll see how this all ends up for "sheets" Byrd, he may ultimately end up tarred by this racial tar baby.

I think the RATS have started to believe their own propaganda. Slick willie and aunt hillie have been prattling on and on about the "black voter suppression" which only exists in their vivid imaginations (like the black churches clinton supposedly saw being burned while growing up that didn't, in fact, exist). But the REAL black voter suppression was aided and abetted by RATS like Fullbright, Byrd, Russell and others. Just shows that RATS "think" with their emotions and not with their brains, and frequently engage in history rewriting on a massive scale. And so this racial McCarthyism may end up boomeranging against them in ways they cannot even imagine.

[sneakypete]

Fulbright = Bomb Throwing Liberal Democrat

Fulbright=traitor,and most likely the source of leaks to the North Vietnamese about operations to rescue American POW's in Viet Nam. As the Dim chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee,he was above official suspiscion.