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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.” |
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Add comment December 8th, 2008
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Newly released White House tapes REVEAL that Lyndon Johnson considered Richard Nixon treasonous for sabotaging peace efforts in Vietnam to advance his own bid for the presidency.
Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois seemed to agree with Johnson on that point.
4 comments July 10th, 2008
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This story, which I’ve run across in several places on the Internet, represents a harbinger of our current presidential campaign season:
In 1948, during his first race for the U.S. Senate, Lyndon Johnson was running about 10 points behind, with only nine days to go. He was sunk in despair. He was desperate. And it was just before noon on a Monday, they say, when he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to call a press conference for just before lunch on a slow news day and accuse his high-riding opponent, a pig farmer, of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children.
His campaign manager was shocked. “We can’t say that, Lyndon,” he supposedly said. “You know it’s not true.”
“Of course it’s not true!” Johnson barked at him. “But let’s make the bastard deny it!”
Add comment June 16th, 2008
Perhaps the most famous presidential campaign commercial in history was the one for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 in which the not-so-subtle message was that Republican challenger Barry Goldwater might start a nuclear war.
The “Daisy Girl” ad, as it was known, aired only once — on NBC, during the movie “David and Bathsheba” on Sept. 7 of that year. But countless millions of Americans have seen it in documentaries and news reports over the past 44 years.
The creator of the spot, Tony Schwartz, DIED Sunday at the age of 84.
Here’s the famous ad:
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