Why Did Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Hate Each Other?
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2023
- Exploring the bitter rivalry between RFK and LBJ by looking at their interactions, personalities and histories. From before Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson even met they were destined to hate each other. One was poor, the other was rich. One was quiet, the other was loud. One was compassionate, the other cruel. Both, however, were absolutely determined to have their own way.
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My Dad, who I never ever heard say a unkind word about anyone, met LBJ one weekend in 1965/66, when he was a guest of Governor John Connelly in South TEXAS, and he said that was the most unsavory, unlikeable, foul mouthed, mean charactered human being he'd ever been around....my Dad was a preacher and principal and met tons of people...I never forgot those words...
I love those words. Your daddy sounded like an intelligent man. Both emotionally intelligent as well as mentally.
@@kmsleyang8972 yes he was!!!❤️❤️ he could also be very funny, in a good way lol he loved his kids, nieces and nephews, all kids!! He just knew how to make people laugh on any level😂😂 the world needs people like that!! Miss him everyday❤️❤️❤️
Johnson was like trump….another low life grifter who was a liar and prima Donna charlatan power hungry loser.
I had a history teacher in college that taught a class called "Current Events" but the only subject this professor talked about was Edward Kennedy. This professor said that his main purpose of his career of teaching was to see that Edward Kennedy never became president. Personally, I think that there should have been more hearing from people in Texas who knew Lyndon Johnson's behavior to let it be known of what Johnson's not so "straight forward" intentions really were like.
@@KellyBishop-rg3jx
We all know or should know that LBJ was responsible for JFK’s assassination. Democrats haven’t changed one bit and many run as Republicans ✅.
As Nixon reportedly stated, "Lyndon and I both wanted to be president, only I wasn't willing to kill for it. "
That animal Johnson got his comeuppance
Implicating LBJ in Kennedy's assassination? That's just bogus. Listen to Rob Reiner's podcasts titled Who Killed JFK.
BS
Yeah. As quoted from a personal conversation with Roger Stone.
Yeah Nixon ..... That pinion of moral good 😝😒
My mom was a child of the 60s. She said when they killed JFK it broke her heart but when they killed Bobbie it was really all over.
Shocking..our government capable of executing their(our)own. Wake up..Hoover HATED the Kennedy family. The democrats orchestrated all of this.
I've seen at least one report that RFK said to LBJ shortly after the assassination, "Why did you kill my brother?" I think that must be the reason.
Sounds like BS.
@@danieleyre8913. You can say that it sounds like B.S. But Johnson was Under Investigation for MURDER when he was V. P. And the ONLY WAY TO MAKE IT GO AWAY WAS TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT, BECAUSE AS V.P. HE DIDN'T HAVE THAT POWER. READ SOME BOOKS AND LEARN ABOUT IT
That doesn’t explain his animosity manifested well before the assassination
@@djpalindromewell I'm sure it didn't help.
My grandfather was an avid Republican, but he worked for Bobby Kennedy his first few years out of law school, and never once did he have a bad thing to say about him.
So what
My Democrat mom wouldn't vote for him in. 68 because she thought he would start a different war
Not talking about K...talking about Johnson...nobody could evrrrr fig out what jfk saw inside Johnson either
@@pjj9491 it was to help him in the South and Texas
I’m an arch conservative or Libertarian and might donate to his son’s presidential campaign.
The day JFK was killed, my father said, ‘we will never know the truth, but Johnson is in the mix in some way. He has always been crooked’. I have always remember that.
When Johnson was on plane with his right hand raised next to Jacqueline (on live transmission), I had a fleeting moment of intuition asking myself if that person with his hand on the bible could possibly be the one responsabile for Kennedy's death. This came to me without knowing anything at all about the animosity narrated here.
@maryannbertini7611 Yes. Johnson was heavily involved more than most people can even imagine. I did an indepth research on the Kennedy assassination several hundred hours. And be assured Lyndon B. Johnson colluded to have Kennedy murdered. He was one evil devil.
I was only a little kid when JFK died but remember my mom saying years later that she thought LBJ was somehow involved with his death
I’ve always thought he was something to do with it.
He was right
Old guy here. I once overheard my Dad discussing the JFK assassination with relatives. The quote I recalled him saying, “LBJ called. He wanted his gun back.” I was astounded. But 40 years later, I think he was right.
Yes, nobody had more to gain by Kennedy's death than LBJ. Both Kennedy's. Plus, LBJ had been implicated in being involved in about 10 other murders by one of his own associates involved, including his own sister whom was, in LBJ's mind, tarnishing their name with her actions.
Was the gun made in Israel?
Probably similar generation here but, while not put as well, but that was my dad's theory as well
Your dad, like many others, was dead wrong. LBJ, and the secret service agent who jumped on him, thought he might be a target Oswald's first shot hit a traffic light near LBJ's car. It was partially blocking Oswald's view of JFK. Had he waited 1 or 2 seconds, he would have hit JFK with all 3 shots. It is verified by the Soviet embassy and Cuban consulate in Mexico City that Oswald had offered to kill JFK if they would admit him to Cuba. They didn't want to get involved and risk World War 3. He went ahead anyway. His trial would have been open and shut, had it not been for that fool Ruby.
@@geoffoconnor3487 In this case, pardon the platitude, but two wrongs didn't make a right.
LBJ makes Richard Nixon look like a saint.
To be fair most people look like a st compared to lbj😂
Nixon was a great President, regardless of what anyone thinks of his morals
Knowing what we know now about US politics Watergate was incredibly tame
@@chadwells7562 Nixon was Gandhi compared to Joe Biden, and obviously a much better POTUS.
spoken like a true Republican. LBJ who signed the civil rights acts is worse than corrupt nixon?
I lived through those times. I see LBJ's failed presidency not because of the Kennedy kids but Viet Nam.
AMEN! LBJ, his family, & his oilmen cronies got rich off of Vietnam - with their Bell Helicopter & General Dynamics' stock.
That's it?!?! GS?!
That and the perceived failure to deal with the urban riots.
I can think of more than 58,000 reasons to hate that SOB Johnson
@@larrywmedford6587 At least
My father worked as a capital policeman & rarely said anything negative about about anyone in DC but he referred to LBJ as absolutely vile & he believed he was involved at least in the cover up of JFK’s assassination.
Lots of people did
LJB wisely didn’t run for president
So Nixon won
LBJ was about to be in deep trouble over his shady business deals and may have been thrown off the 1964 JFK ticket. He was a desperate man and I agree with you.
Oh I heard there’s more to the story…,
Kennedy’s death, LBJ & CIA…
I saw a documentary on TV which I have not seen since, but in the documentary they said LBJ once said 'You give me the Presidency , I'll give you the war'.
People can’t just take the truth that it doesn’t take that much to change history. It’s not that difficult to kill somebody. Especially in the US where everybody has access to firearms. All it takes is one desperate looser with a bit of planning and luck. There is probably no big conspiracy. Osswald being a lone perpetrator makes the most sense and fits all the facts best. That doesn’t mean off course there aren’t a ton of people that probably were quite happy about the death of JFK.
It was because Bobby was a decent lawyer, and had seen scum and mafia types for years, and seeing LBJ, he recognized scum.
LBJ probably whacked 1 president and 1 candidate
He did
Are you ok ?
I don’t believe that
And it appears that Bobby Kennedy may have whacked Marilyn Monroe, so there is that.
Politics has always been a dirty business.
And congratulations on making on the FBI's happy list
My mom once told me in the late 50's she was a stewardess on a flight with LBJ on it. She had a very low opinion of him because anytime she asked whether he needed something he waved her off and had his assistant speak to her. She was just doing her job.
Your mother was lucky that LBJ did not get fresh with her. He was a notorious womanizer.
@@ricardo53100 I think LBJ considered her to be a mere servant judging by the way he treated her. She was a beautiful woman. I miss her.
LBJ was Senate Majority Leader at that time, and the 2nd most powerful man in government. He was a busy man.
@@jamesanthony5681 Yeah, being powerfully busy and kind is not a binary choice. A person can be both.
@@MarklovesAngels Yeah, they're not mutually exclusive, but this was a 'wave of the hand'. He didn't say anything nasty or dismissive, and how many busy people have done likewise? Can you honestly say you've never done the same or similar at any point in your life to someone that may have been offended?
JFK was good looking and charismatic, but many men voted for JFK because of his WWII record.
Indeed, he was very courageous. Unlike Johnson who went on a tour of the west coast instead. Eventually working in admin in an australian air force base only after forced to do so to save his policitics career.
I would think RFK hated LBJ because he orchestrated having his brother assassinated.
Not sure he was the orchestrator, but definitely in on it.
I love how Johnson gets credit for passing the Civil Rights Act…a nearly identical act to one he torpedoed during the Eisenhower administration that was championed by Ike and the Republican Party…
Sadly that is politics for you. Quite often this sort of thing happens just so that the same sort of policy can later be passed and claimed credit for by the party that originally sabotaged it.
Absolutely. LBJ took Kennedy's plans for America, kept himself from being indicted in the Bobby Baker scandal and that was going on at the time of thevJFK Assassination
LBJ gotball the glory for passing the many billsvof Jihn Kennedy's
I miss the GOP of Eisenhower days.
@@jonathans.bragdon5934Eisenhower is greatly underrated. He tried warning us about the MIC(deep state).
Both Kennedy's were in Johnson's way.
This analysis ignores JFK’s war hero status completely. He wasn’t just a rich kid.
We used to have to read "Profiles in Courage" in our schools.....👍
That was Johnson’s opinion of him, not of the video author.
He was trash
If JFK hadn't completely disobeyed SOPs re: engine running of PT109, he would never have put him and his men in that situation.
Yes ! This absolutely true ! 👍
I always believed that Bobby Kennedy suspected or knew that LBJ had a hand in John Kennedy's death
There's a recording of Bobby confronting LBJ with, "Why did you have my brother killed?"
I was wondering if that recording is still available and if so do you know how I could listen to it or watch it I'm from Melbourne Australia and am really interested in the Kennedys assassination thank you Sir @@daskommandantkrieger2503
😢 My grandfather grew up with LBJ. In fact, grand daddy is edited out of the childhood photo on the steps of my great granddaddies house, shown in this video.
Grandaddy said Lyndon was a backstabber, and would backstab anybody for no reason at all.
That's all you need to know about who really killed JFK.
He truly was a bum.
Bit more than a backstabber, crook, drunk, sex addict and killer
Yeah
That’s a wild leap - your grandfather being out of an old picture, to that proving LBJ killed JFK. But then wild leaps are what drive conspiracy theories.
I agree
I always felt that LBJ was very much a part of the assassination
There's audio of LBJ discussing the assassination at his library in Austin. It seems to me to support that theory. Plus, there's lots of other circumstantial evidence. It happened in Texas, LBJ had brought a judge along on the trip, etc. It would be nice if the government would release the rest of the files they were supposed to make public ten years ago.
@@jumperpoint The us gov was also part of the murder.
@@jumperpoint LBJ is just a vile guy to begin with, never forget the quote about him saying he'll have, and this is in his own words: "N*gg*r*s voting for the democrat party for the next 200 years."
So hard to believe how just ONE insignificant person can do something to change world wide events on that day. Sure might have had chat about if the worst happened and he was called to step up. I believe secrets from Government probably more of effort to protect President Kennedy personal reputation than hiding his assassination.
The Democrat party is the party of the slaveowners and KKK and other racism.
LBJ was from the South whereas the Kennedys were working for blacks.
Blacks were and are worse off with LBJ policies but would have been better off with the Kennedys.
The Kennedys did a coup similar to what Trump did to the Republican party…
J. Edgar Hoover disliked both Kennedys but he despised Bobby. Up to that time as FBI Director he'd always reported directly to the President even though the AG was actually his boss. JFK changed that and even ordered Hoover to go through Bobby at all times.
The arrogance
@@AB-lq1zdBut they still kept him on. He must have had something on them too.
also, a dedicated hot line was installed between RFK and Hoover. The first time RFK used it, Hoover's secretary intercepted the call (on Hoover's instruction). RFK reamed Hoover out and angrily demanded the hot phone be placed on Hoover's desk and only to be answered by Hoover.
@@patrickmiano7901 The something LBJ had on JFK was photos of JFK in 'compromising' situations with women. (How different than the mores of the Trump era when the president can frolic with pornstars and no-one bats an eye). JFK was reconsidering his choice of LBJ and when the LBJ camp got wind that JFK was thinking of dropping LBJ two men appeared before JFK with sheaves of these sexually compromised photos. LBJ stayed on and, in keeping with his character deficiencies, ushered in the darkest chapter of US history.
That is why Joseph Kennedy, securities manipulator, bootlegger, and adulterer, insisting that Bobby be appointed as Attorney General. He told JFK it was the only "demand" that he had. He wanted a family member between the President and the FBI director.
I hope LBJ is where he belongs right now, for all the untold death and destruction he’s caused to America.
This lends credence to the rumor that LBJ had a hand in Kennedy's asassination.
He didn’t
Not really, that would still be empty speculation that does not in any way conform with the established evidence.
There’s a timeline as to where RFK survived, won the nomination, and succeeded Lyndon Johnson as President. This would have probably been the final nail in the coffin that was LBJs political career, having someone he hated as much as Bobby take over his job and probably be more popular at doing so
I think the coffin being nailed was his approval rating due to Vietnam. It kept getting worse and worse until Johnson himself announced his exit from high political office
Johnson’s political funeral in 1968 would be a RFK president elect, giving the service with Johnson still being warm
Wish RFK lived. Could’ve done a lot of good. Then Sirhan had to do him in.
Would have been a huge blow to LBJ and to Nixon. Both would have been defeated, on the world stage, by a Kennedy twice.
EDIT: Just wanted to clear something up. By saying "huge blow to LBJ and Nixon" I wasn't trying to degrade them and endorse RFK. I was trying to say it would have been personally devastating to LBJ and Nixon as both men had desired the presidency for so long (in fact, it was Johnson's lifelong dream) and they'd already lost to a Kennedy.
@@resyndicated yeah. I mean imagine no Nixon? The country would be at a better state
@@resyndicated RFK would have had trouble getting the nomination. Most of the delegates back then were controlled by the Democrat Party, and they had the infamous Unit Rule. So, your wishful thinking is just that :wishful thinking.
When a British Conservative politician was showing a friend of his around the House of Commons she pointed to the Labour benches opposite and remarked: “So that’s where the enemy sits?” “No” replied the MP. “They’re the opposition. My enemies are sitting all around me.” As a Brit, I’m interested in American politics (ours is just ridiculous at present) and I didn’t know about this rivalry. Fascinating, thank you for sharing.
“…keep your friends close but your enemies closer.” Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), The Godfather, Part II (1974)
@nickycatton7882 I lived through those times. RFK and JFK were well-mannered (for the most part!) Bostonians. LBJ was a loud, crude, rude Texan. (No offense, Texans, I love the Lone Star State and have family in Houston). Johnson and the Kennedys were like oil and water, as different as night and day, couldn't stand each other.😮
Johnson WAS everything vulgar, crude and conniving. There's no separating the squeal from the swine. Like Nixon, the Elder Bush, Clinton, the Bushlet, BHO, Trump and Biden--they ALL ran/or are running criminal enterprises from the Oval Office. Trying to find an honest politician is like trying to find a clean turd in the sewer--can't be done. Probably the last man not to leave the Presidency richer than when he assumed office was good old Democrat Harry Truman way back in 1952. And he declined to seek his party's nomination for a second term.
When ROBERT KENNEDY passed by my city it was real crowded like a parade when LBJ came in nobody paid attention.
Excellent documentary. The best I have heard on LBJ as of yet. Sadly, it is only the tip of the iceberg on that scoundrel! 😡
I grew up back in the DC area back in the 60s. My grandmother worked for the AFL-CIO and worked closely with the Kennedy’s. No one liked LBJ. The only reason he was on the ticket was to carry Texas. He as evil to the core my grandmother said. He ended the democrat party. My grandmother mother disliked him so much , she became a republican.
And everyone forgets LBJ started the welfare program that enslaved poor people by forcing the fathers to leave the homes for the money to be given.
LBJ certainly ended the Democratic party as a party of white supremacy (cf the Dixiecrats) -- all the white supremacists went over the Republicans after LBJ passed all the civil rights legislation.
That's such an odd response to the not liking a president...did she ever say what appealed to her about the Republican party? Nixon wasn't any better....
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson
And that’s really all you need to know about LBJ’s “character.”
Yeah he also openly used the n-word apparently.
Yes and LBJ was disrespectful to everyone around him. He was even more obnoxious when it came to the size of his penis. He was quick to show it to other men around him.
If I could upvote this more than once...
These are harsh facts, but not untrue. They are the unspoken truths of politics. JFK knew this just as well as Johnson did.
He's right about rubber heads. They love welfare and baby sex
Robbie was a man of deep consciousness and convictions just like his brother for mankind's betterment as a world collectively 🌎 ... RIP 🙏 🕊
And very bright as well, from what I remember learning. Iirc the solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis was his idea?
Rfk was a miserable, mean little man. Johnson towered over him. No matter what rfk thought, Johnson was president while Bobby remained a little prick. He was just a mean person with low morals just like jfk and their sinful corrupt father.
It was LBJ that sent us to Vietnam to fight with one arm behind our backs.
We lost that war fair and square
"One arm behind our back" meant atrocity after atrocity, even without including the evils the south vietnamese committed with our blessing.
Thats why i hate that POS!!
There was a LOT to dislike about LBJ, and VERY little if anything to like.
Really, Jim? How about the Civil Rights legislation that LBJ passed within *months* of becoming President, including the Voting Rights Act (1965), Medicare and Medicaid and 100 other pieces of legislation?
Don't forget killing JFK so he could have the big chair. @@jamesanthony5681
An ability to compromise is usually a good thing, even in creepy people.
@@jamesanthony5681 Yes, LBJ was significantly more progressive in civil rights than either of the Kennedys.
@@jamesanthony5681 It’s obviously great that he passed all that important legislation, but he didn’t do it because he was on some noble crusade, he did it for political reasons, so he shouldn’t be celebrated just because the VRA passed during his administration. Bobby was a great man, and LBJ was a racist a-hole.
Everyone KNOWS that RFK blamed Lyndon for his brother's DEATH!!!
I don’t blame Bobby for not liking Lyndon. Did anybody like old Lyndon?
Nonsense. Where and when did RFK blame LBJ for his brother's death? And if so, then why did Bobby (and Teddy) keep quiet and not do anything about it?
@@judithryle2113 Read the 4 Caro books on LBJ and you'll get your answer. Think about this: If nobody liked 'old Lyndon', how was it that got all the Civil Rights legislation passed within *months* of becoming President, something JFK never accomplished in almost 3 years of President?
@@jamesanthony5681what would u expect them to have done? Kill him? say it out loud in the press, killing was not possible, ranting in the press would just be detrimental to any future goals they had... You have to remember Johnson had become president and there was little much they could do..... Still RFK resigned as attorney General during Johnsons tenure and was going to run for president before the shooting that killed him - running for president was probably his way of fighting back (in his way showing Johnson that he could try as much as he wanted to put them down but they would still get back up) ... The Kennedy sons had more virtue (at least as far as murder went) compared to Johnson and maybe that was their undoing in those times.
@@judithryle2113No he didn't. He knew they hated each other but Kennedy needed Johnson to win the election. Johnson hated Robert cuz he thought of him as a spoiled brat completely unqualified to be AG. And he was correct.
1:10 not many people think about the fact that LBJ went from being one of the most powerful men in the US… to VP. Which of course it’s an almost powerless role. Not only he schemed with Hoover to force his way into the VP role, he actually went and cried to JFK about letting him be the VP. The man was criminally insane and was absolutely in on the assassination. That’s why the truth can’t come out. It would cause riots.
There wouldn’t be many riots. We all pretty much either know he was in on it, can prove with paperwork that he planned it or wouldn’t be surprised to learn he was part of it.
No defenders of Johnson left. Theyre dead. Nobody will be surprised. I was in 4th grade when LBJ became president. I knew he was a bad guy cuz my dad - a deep south racist democrat - adored him.
Hoover made himself "invisible" during and after JFK s dead.
@@Luileadolfo Yep.
Haha no one today cares about this part of history much less their own. No one is rioting over this.
The more I hear and read LBJ was a real P.O.S.
Keep in mind Johnson should have been seated in that Limo with JFK instead of Texas Governor John Connally.
After JFK was killed in Dallas, before LBJ took the oath of office, he called Bobby (who was at the White House, not his office at the Justice Dept) to give him the situation and let him know he was about to be sworn in. He didn't have to but he wanted to make clear to Bobby that he was in charge now. It was a small but significant move to demonstrate his authority to a political rival.
i disagree. it was a friendly gesture to ask how he was after his brother died.
He had every reason. People forget that during Ike's presidency, Johnson was senate majority leader and arguably even more powerful than Ike himself. When Kennedy ran for president in 1960, the only reason he was selected was to get the increasing republican south in line, (Texas would've certainly gone to Nixon under any other running mate and Harry Byrd's third party candidacy would have been much stronger without his influence).
The Vice President was and still is a largely ceremonial role, with its duties being delegated to it by the President. No such duties came for Lyndon, with Jack instead opting to seek advice from his family, especially Bobby who fulfilled many of the roles Johnson was supposed to. It was very tough for him to go from the 2nd most powerful man in the country, to some people forgetting he exists.
The story goes LBJ called Bobby (who yes at the White House destroying files ) to ask him about the oath of office.. RFK says he will look into it ..LBJ takes the oath ( which wasn’t necessary) then tells everyone it was RFKs idea …later on during the flight he calls JFK s mom( who also is RFKs mom) and sobs over the phone until lady bird grabs it away from him… whats so concerning about all of this is that this behavior was in 1963. I can only imagine how it is now in those circles of power
When LBJ and Lady Bird were invited to Bobby's home at Hickory Hill, Ethel and the rest of the Kennedy family made sure that the Johnsons were seated at the losers table. It was a small but significant move to demonstrate how the Kennedy family felt about the Johnsons, even calling them Rufus Cornpone (Lyndon) and his Little Pork Chop (Lady Bird) behind their backs. How nice!
@@jamesanthony5681 on both sides it wasn’t respectful or pleasant behind the scenes apparently, and that was many decades ago so imagine how it is now?
The only mistake JFK made; making LBJ his VP.
Do you realize how close the election was even when he picks Johnson to help carry the South ?
Nah jfk wouldn’t have won without him
Then JFK wouldn't have been President. The 1960 election was that close, and LBJ was an expert at stealing elections.
@The_king567 he wouldn't the election of 1960 one of the closest elections
@@emmanuellawyer8562 it was rigged for jfk
Wow LBJ was only 51 in 1960? Wow! He seemed much older than that.
Part of the reason why LBJ managed to get so much legislation passed was because the nation was grieving JFK’s murder & many had felt tremendous guilt & sorrow for their fallen leader.
Absolute *NONSENSE* .
LBJ was a political genius (yes, a GENIUS) who forged relationships with those southern politicians, unlike JFK, and that enabled him (LBJ) to get legislation passed.
uh no.....nice try rewriting history
@@415TCrider I didn't rewrite anything. That's what happened. Never said it was the cause, just a contributing factor.
The reason LBJ succeeded is that he knew all the dirt about the Representatives and Senators. He was also a master negotiator. JFK was a wimp, who caved to the Russians during the Berlin Wall incident, the Cuban missile crisis, and the summit at Vienna. The truth about Cuba is that Khruschev wanted our missiles out of Turkey, so he put missiles into Cuba until we agreed to remove them. To allow JFK to save face, the Russians removed their missiles first, and a few months later, we took ours out of Turkey.
I have to mainly agree with @415TCrider esp. with the "so much legislation" claim (and I'm unclear as to why the nation would feel "guilty" at JFK's death---sad to be sure, but why "guilt?") .
While it is correct that JFK's death had some influnece, this concerns only two legislative provisions, really: the February 1964 tax cut and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of July in the same year, esp. as the assassination was still resonant at that time. (the offical morning period was 30 days).
But the claim also understates LBJ's effectiveness here as those two pieces of legislation had been bottled up by Congress during JFK's tenure--so both were very difficult to pass (and JFK lacked the legislative skill of his Presidential sucessor). Republicans were against the Keynesian-oriented tax cut as fiscally irresponsible (Gee--where did those days go?) and Southern Dixiecrats in the Senate were of course very opposed to the Civil Rights bill--lauching a fillibuster to forstall it (with the aid of one Republican)--and still the case in light of the assassinated President
It was LBJ's own legislative skill that got both passed, first by trimming the federal budget enough (getting it below $100 M) to get acceptance on the tax cut and taking a far more active leadership position on civil rights and using the moral bully pulpit and a sense of urgency compared to the more cautious JFK (including using the latter's death as a form of suasion to be sure)--incl. LBJ's ability to promote Republicans as "The Party of Lincoln" in uniting with Northern Democrats for the bill's passage.
Yet LBJ's major legislative victories with the 89th Congress ("The Fabulous 89th"--from 1965 - 1967, with Democratic supermajorities in both House and Senate)--Voting Rights, Social Security Amendments, incl. Medicare and Medicaid, the Higher Ed., Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, immigration, the FOIA, creating HUD & the Dept, of Transportation, highway beautification, public works and urban development, etc., etc., etc.--are all LBJ's own and hardly owe to a nation still in morning for JFK, which by this point it wasn't.
Johnson was the reason the United States escalated the Vietnam War.
I agree
Yet it was Kennedy's guy, McNamara who was the architect of the war. Don't believe the lies. Kennedy would have been all in on Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin
Still feel LBJ knew of the assassination in Dallas!
Very nice video. Good narration. Good research. Well done.
At SFA University, LBJ was known as “Bull” by his fellow students, short for “Bulls***”. He was a malignant narcissist.
It sounds like he depicted the worst of the DNC today.
I would love to see more videos likes this, I find political rivalries tend to be very interesting.
They’re a bunch of primadonnas trying to fight for power
Doesn’t make it any less entertaining, Disraeli vs Gladstone for example.
Today which side is more adversarial? Biden or Trump? Biden supporters or Trump supporters?
@@nandy1256 Biden doesn’t exactly have supporters, it’s more like Trump Haters against Trump Lovers and I’m honestly not sure if either side is more adversarial than the other but if I had to answer I would say Trump Supporters.
@@iamjohnfarlow
Is it true Trump has cult followers who think they're able to discern clearly the right from wrong of others except for Trump?
My dad, who was part of the White House Press Corps, said he disliked Kennedy because he felt he was a non-caring Playboy, but my dad absolutely despised Johnson and said when he because President, this country got what it deserved. My family who was mobbed-up to the hilt all claimed that Johnson was involved in the Kennedy assassination in some way, and the key was Dallas police Officer JD Tippet--who was about as corrupt as Johnson. They knew said that Oswald was on his way to get a pay out and possibly a protected trip out of town and Tippet was going to kill Oswald and Oswald got the drop on him first.
The Democratic Party is the natural home for the most evil politicians.
yeah, funny how JFK was assassinated in Texas...........?????
Making it up as you go eh?..
I heard a Vietnam vet talk to my mom about 25 years ago he told her that him and a bunch of his army buddy's got together and went down to Johnson grave a peed on it I don't know if it was really true or not but that is real hate.
They deserve Medals of Honor for that!
One can only hope😊
Nixon negotiated behind America's back (promised to get a better deal for S Vietnam's leaders) to keep their buddies there for five more years. Five more years of useless slaughter. Cognitive dissonance.
I'm not sure if this video was long enough to list the reasons LBJ was a hated man by more people than RFK.
Exactly right. I'm sorry but anyone, literally anyone who forces people to listen to him while he's taking a friggin' dump with the door wide open is a nasty, vile individual.
No. This video didn’t have enough time to bring to light all of the misdeeds
LBJ did. From the building of slums and making sure the black American family were just another example of his government. Look very deep into his dealings in the Vietnam war. Scary.
A lot of us hated LBJ when he was President.
damn hippies
why? was u racist and hated his civil right bill? did u hate poor people and hated his great society policies?
You ought to realize that if before the great society, many Americans lived in truly grinding poverty, far worse than modern poverty.
@@drunkslut2355 Vietnam?
@drunkslut Your user name helps me to understand your comment. You wouldn't get it, even if I wrote a response in crayon.
Excellent research, great writing.
Well done!
Very well put together video- thanks for posting!!! ❤
I'm guessing it had something to do with LBJ being a _genuinely evil_ man.
One of the reasons LBJ didn't run again was he knew he would be challenged by RFK and given his low poll numbers due to Vietnam he would likely lose to him he feared.
LBJ was positively the most war-mongering US president. There are released recordings of him ordering the war office to invent incidents so that Johnson could justify increasing the actions in Vietnam.
Nah. He didn't fear RFK at all.
LBJ didn't seek a second term because,
1.Wife Lady Bird told him 4 years earlier, to resign in '68. Johnson listened to his wife; and
2. LBJ's work was done. He passed Civil Rights, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and 100 other bills. He got things DONE; and
3. Vietnam was dragging him down; however, had he run for a 2nd term and told the American people very early on that he was reversing course and pulling the troops out, that America had done its best to bring democracy to Vietnam, then he would have been re-elected. No question in my mind.
Robert Kennedy accomplished nothing compared against LBJ. Why would Johnson fear him?
So true and I would add LBJ's enormous ego couldn't deal with losing.... especially to RFK
That is not true. First of all, even if Bobby had lived, he would not have received the Democratic nomination in 1968. At that time, only about 15% of the delegates were elected in primaries. The rest were chosen by party bosses, and LBJ was chief boss of the Democratic Party. He would have moved heaven and earth to prevent Kennedy's nomination. If LBJ had decided to go forward, he would have been nominated, and he would have given Nixon a run for his money in November, and might have won. The reason LBJ did not run is that he was not well, and he feared dying in office. Indeed, he died on January 22, 1973, which was only two days after the term of office would have concluded. He would have died sooner if he had endured the stress of the presidency for another term.
@@jamesanthony5681 Another factor to consider is that Bobby Kennedy was an opportunist. He did not enter the race until LBJ's poorer-than-expected finish in the New Hampshire primary, and Bobby smelled blood in the water. Bobby advocated withdrawal from Vietnam, but conveniently failed to mention that LBJ was merely following the policy that Bobby's brother, JFK, and JFK's advisers, had recommended in the first place.
LBJ was very crooked and crude.
The democrats were responsible for the Vietnam war...period. Greatest sin from this party. They lied, sent needless kids to their death..then disregarded them when survivors came home
This is an excellent dissertation. I learned a lot.
I will always to this day believe that LBJ had a hand in both Kennedy Assassinations!!!
100%
I always thought Johnson was involved and I was just a young kid when it happened.
Never.
So did lots of Americans
LBJ wasn't the only one that hated the Kennedys. All the Texas people were in that camp and my theory is that it was Bush Sr. connected with the CIA that orchestrated it for the benefit of LBJ.
If someone kills your brother, and eventually yourself, of course you're going to hate them.
I remember my dad mimicking Johnson, when I was a kid, saying: "I want to make this crystal clear..."
I remember Johnson well. His idiotic micromanagement of Vietnam where he had to approve of even an attack on an outhouse in downtown Hanoi lost us the war. I'm certain he was behind JFK's assassination too. He was ruthless enough to do it.
I was one of 50,000 boy scouts who saw him speak at the National Jamboree in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1963.
His chopper landed by the stage in the huge amphitheater, half-a-dozen secret-service guys jumped out, and swept the audience with their rifles, the whole time LBJ spoke... "My fellow Americans, it makes me proud, blah-blah- blah "
I don't think he planned it, that was the CIA, but he knew about it and certainly approved of it.
Lots of whispers concerning that point of view. He was implicated in quite a few murders. He was very "fortunate" in that a lot of people (including some of his family) that had dirty info on Johnson ended up dead including a bloke that was shot five times and the verdict was suicide. Only in America mate.
He did it. If he wasn't VP, JFK wouldn't have been hit.
Is it true that during a heated argument between RFK and LBJ that Bobbie said to Lyndon “ why did you have my brother killed?”
Very interesting bit of Anerican history and well presented. 👍
This is an Excellent and balanced assessment, the best I've ever heard about the LBJ RFK Fued. Also, Robert Caro who is a phenomenal researcher was referenced several times. Great work here.
LBJ told his mistress, the day before the murder of JFK, quote: After tomorrow I won't have to worry about those Kennedy's anymore! (The nice version) Source: AN INTERVIEW WITH HIS MISTRESS.
LBJ referred to them as the Irish Mafia. Like Nixon said, LBJ never liked being number 2
I don't know about you guys, but I am eager to see Resyndicated have a collaboration with Mr. Beat.
Me too
And Vlogging through History!
@@Helloredtiger333 true
Please no
@@heretic117why not?
You have to wonder why anyone would continue to work for a government that killed their beloved. It’s sick and it’s sad.
I read somewhere, that while JFK went to war (PT-109) that the closest that LBJ got to the action was waving at the ships that left California ( while He was wearing 2nd Lieutenant uniforms?)
I remember the Kennedy Brothers were going to replace LBJ in 64. They referred to him as Uncle Cornpone.
It is interesting to note that the Draft Lottery began under LBJ on December 1, 1969. And Nixon ended the war.
LOL -- Nixon was elected in 1968 -- it was under Nixon that there was a lottery (basically the Republicans were angry that college students -- who had draft deferments --were protesting the war, so Nixon took the draft deferment away from them by putting in the lottery.
Nixon expanded the war for almost four years until he could secure a ceasefire between the Vietnamese sides right before the '72 election, and he fully intended to re-commit American troops if the fighting resumed on a large scale, which was inevitable. The Senate blocked American re-entry, and then Nixon went down.
@@danielwesterlund1905 gee thanks, I always go on a Lefty's word of Nixon's intention- which never manifested itself. Wash your hands before you handle the lefty crystal ball. Democrats are the party of war. Your simple misstatement of facts tell me you lack a level of honesty and are tainted by political bigotry.- The Paris Peace accord was signed 1/27/73, so he had 3 years. And the peak of US military deployment was April 1969, 543,000 in country, and Nixon began drawing down after his Jan 1970 inauguration. So go throw your lies and bs at Creepy Joe.
My wife and her family are friends with one of Johnson's illegitimate daughters. She has a wife and a winery, I believe, near Nappa California. She looks exactly like her father, it's uncanny.
Videos like this are rare. And in this medium, this was well done.
Supposedly, LBJ made several uncomplimentary remarks about Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. on several occasions prior to the 1960 election and RFK never forgave him.
Joe Kennedy Sr. was a pretty unsavory guy so LBJ wasn't exactly wrong.
Well, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr was a horrible person. Appeasing the Nazis, antisemitism, all that stuff.
@@budwyzer77True, but LBJ was pretty much a scumbag himself.
I know that RFK was no angel, however, LBJ was a low-down dirty rat of a person. All LBJ cared about was power and he would do anything to get it or keep it.
He did not run for re-election..
Fascinating. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing
I watched one documentary that LBJ and RFK were like “two cats” hissing at each other. From a Kennedy advisor once said about the two.
In my opinion I think LBJ had something to do with President Kennedy.
One reason that LBJ hated RFK was because he was the embodiment of someone who went through life never having to earn anything, surrounded by a golden safety net. Even when he ran for Senate, Bobby had to depend on Uncle Rufus to come in and get him over the finish line. To LBJ, Bobby could be seen as a progressive hero without risking anything personally or politically. For example, it burned LBJ that Bobby could be seen as a hero of the poor when Bobby himself had been born into aristocracy. In LBJ’s mind, Bobby did photo ops at sharecroppers homes…Lyndon actually signed the bills that gave the sharecroppers access to education, food, and equal housing.
I would love to see a video on Joe McCarthy and his friendship with JFK.
And the guy most certainly had a hand in the conspiracy that murdered his brother.
You have zero proof of this, so quit peddling unfounded conspiracy theories.
Nonsense. And quit using bad grammar.
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Isn't it interesting that both of LBJ's major rivals were murdered?
No.
Isn't it interesting that pigs can't fly?
And isn't it interesting that Jackie Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald had a mutual friend ?
Not surprising at all.
@@jamesanthony5681 read LBJ Mastermind of the Kennedy Assasination by Phillip R Nelson if want to know the real LBJ
@@leospring6264 I read the 4 Caro books on LBJ. You can't do better than them. I don't believe Johnson had anything to do with JFK'S assassination. Zero hard evidence that LBJ was involved in any way, shape or form. None. John F Kennedy was the victim of a lone assassin and that's difficult for conspiracy people to accept.
It isn’t a coincidence
RFK stood next to LBJ at a urinal and never got over the embarrassment.
I respect and like them both, especially RFK.
A better question would be why anyone ever liked Johnson.
His good looks and sparkling personality?
Anyone who picks up a beagle by his ears deserves to be hated. 😡
@@robertdesantis6205 I had a beagle when he did that. -What a jackass.
Why? He got things done. Civil Rights Legislation passed. Medicare. Medicaid. Voting Rights Act. A 100 other bills. Ring any bells?
@@jamesanthony5681 Viet Nam war lies and the death of thousands of American kids forced to die by his administration.
Excellent, excellent, excellent. I've read all of Robert Caro's books on LBJ and your presentation of the Kennedy-Johnson feud is true and accurate to the books. New subscriber here.
Not sure if this is true, but in describing Gerald Ford who had a habit of falling down stairs, Johnson said that he couldn’t “fart and chew gum at the same time” which his aides cleaned up as” walk and chew gum at the same time”.
Excellent Presentation
Could this all explain the supposed wink Johnson gave after the death of JFK?
George HW Bush was
probably the only man
in the USA who could
not remember where
he was/what he was
doing when JFK was
assassinated
Great analysis, glad you dont have annoying background music either, its perfect 👌🏻
Well done!
Hoover blackmailed the Kennedy's to run Johnson on the ticket
RFK was brilliant, he doesn't get enough credit for successful resolution of Cuban Missile Crisis. As for the position of Attorney General, he was qualified for that position.
Brilliant? How so?
RFK organized the details of the Bay of Pigs invasion (Kennedy was clearly in over his head), and that idiotic plan resulted in the
Soviets placing nuclear missiles in Cuba for the following reasons: 1. A deterrent against future invasions; and 2. To balance the placement of nuclear missiles around the world. USA had missiles in Turkey aimed at the USSR.
The Kennedy bothers got the USA into that mess, and the world got lucky in Oct/62. Google the name Vasili Arkhipov. He's the reason you're alive today, and Arkhipov should have received 20 Nobel prizes.
Watch the link below where David Brinkley talks about RFK and Bay of Pigs.
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I’m pretty sure RFK was the one who wanted to invade Cuba (which could have caused World War III) during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The so called cuban missile crisis was brought on by installing nukes on the russian border with Turkey!
(Of coarse that little FACT
was keep a secret for some time to the american public)
Who ok'ed that???
Making russia look like the aggressor when really the u.s.was!
You should make a video on the John Adams and Thomas Jefferson rivalry.
george washington
Isnt it odd how the most broken people end up in power.
Not at all! An honest man can’t make it up the ladder ,because he has a conscience!
John Kennedy was right about Vietnam, but Johnson escalated that War Beyond Reason and I've always wondered was Johnson involved in JFK s assassination?.
And, where was JFK's whiz kid McNamara while it was being escalated? LBJ should have deep sixed him and others who were "Kennedy people' as soon as he could but...
Because he knew he sold out his brother and was complicit in his murder.
Bingo
Nonsense.
Facts. You can’t argue with facts
Bobby mellowed after jfk death, but a lot more people hated bobby than jfk early on, and those enemies did in jfk
Great vid!
Fascinating story. I was a teenager in the late sixties and as such didn’t have much interest in politics or the back stabbing within.
Sorry, what's fascinating??
Great video! It’s interesting to dive into rivalries that are often forgotten. You’ve already touched upon the Jackson/Clay rivalry (w/ Adams too) and of course there’s the Hamilton and Jefferson divide. I’m sure there are others worth looking into.
Also, just a suggestion, maybe a video on presidential candidates who failed? It would be interesting to see individuals like William Jennings Bryan stacked up against other candidates.
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, JFK and Richard Nixon.
William Jennings Bryan: An Amazing American!