LBJ on blacks
A reader writes:
From SBPDL:
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200
years.” Lyndon
Baines Johnson about the Great
Society plan.
This quote alone should be enough to turn the tide but it
never will happen.
LA replies:
Assuming Johnson said it (it’s attributed to him
in Ronald Kessler’s Inside the White House), it’s a quintessential LBJ
statement. But to speak fairly (that is, as it would be seen if we were not
living in a liberal world), Johnson’s use of the N word was not anti-black. He
used that kind of vulgar language about everyone (e.g. “I’ve got his
pecker in my pocket”), and it just happens that “nigger” is the vulgar word for
blacks.
Reader replies:
I’ve been reading lots of Faulkner in the past month.
“Nigger” filled his pages.
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Dean Ericson writes:
It’s always refreshing, when it’s not too depressing, to see
sinister motives frankly stated. Usually they go around cloaked in sickening,
righteous hooey. Remember how there always used to come a time, in a movie or a
book, when the villain has the hero in his clutches and, just before dropping
the hammer on him, boastfully explains to the hero his entire diabolical plot
and its motive. The audience listens with cathartic horror as evil drops the
mask and frankly reveals itself for what it is.
Think of Ellsworth Toohey in The Fountainhead, when, after
years of promoting second-rater Peter Keating’s architectural career he
confesses to Keating that his real motive is to destroy excellence because
excellent men cannot be ruled, and that what he’s actually lusting after is the
power to rule over men. “What do you want, Ellsworth?” “Power, Petey.” Keating
is sickened and horrified but the audience is edified as to the nature of evil.
So here we have Lyndon Johnson confessing frankly his own
lust for power, and his means, in part, of acquiring it by taking advantage of
blacks’ weaknesses. The quote doesn’t go on in explicit detail, but we can
surmise that it entails, among other things, giving blacks government cheese to
have them eating out of his hand and giving them jobs on the government
plantation to create an army of African slaves happily voting Democratic for
200 years.
Too bad there wasn’t a hero who, after listening to
Johnson’s confession, managed to hit a button on Johnson’s desk that released a
trapdoor dropping the s.o.b. into a pool of sharks. That’s how righteous moral
cleansing worked, in movies and in books, in the not-so-long-ago.
Paul K. writes:
One of the instances of Johnson demonstrating his cynicism
about liberalism was related by Joseph Califano, who was his Special Assistant
for Domestic Affairs. In a recent op-ed piece for the
New York Times, Califano describes Johnson’s reaction when liberals voted
against raising the debt ceiling to express their opposition to the Vietnam
War”
Johnson was furious. “There’s plenty of money for domestic
programs,” he told me. “Tell them we’re prepared to put big public housing
projects right in the middle of their districts to show their constituents how
much money is available for domestic programs. Maybe that’ll change their
minds.”
I believe that then, as now, people understood that housing
projects contained large populations of underclass blacks. Clearly Johnson
understood that no one wanted to live near them and the threat of that was an
effective weapon in his arsenal.
Paul M. writes:
I grew up in Washington DC during the 1960s, and “nigger”
was not a particularly vulgar term at that time. Whites used it amongst
themselves frequently and casually, and while it certainly wasn’t a compliment,
using the term didn’t imply that you harbored an extreme level of animosity
towards blacks, either. The term “colored people” was used in mixed company, or
when one was trying to sound more formal.
An analogy today might be “Mexican” vs. “Latino” or
“Hispanic.” Some whites still refer to any Central American as a “Mexican” when
talking to other whites. It’s meant to be somewhat derogatory , but few people
will ostracize you for using it.
January 10
Vincent Chiarello writes:
Anyone familiar with Robert Caro’s devastating
biography of LBJ, Means of Ascent, knows that Johnson was filled with
the hates and prejudices, some real, some imagined, that never left him
throughout his life. All of what Caro, a Pulitzer Prize winner of the biography
of Robert Moses, wrote about Johnson’s hubris and ability to seek revenge were
never refuted by Johnson’s supporters. Instead, Caro was chided by that group
for allowing publication while LBJ’s wife and children were still alive. One
wonders if such latitude would have been granted to Richard M. Nixon.
But if Johnson could feel some sympathy toward the poor
Mexicans in southern Texas, he was no fan of the black residents of that area.
He was less than adulatory toward the behavior and actions of Rev. King,
something I know from an event that happened more than forty years ago.
During my first assignment overseas to a South American
country, I paid the customary visit to various heads of section, including the
Legal Attaché, who is normally an FBI Agent. Over the next few weeks, our
conversational topics expanded, and during one discussion of the rioting that
had taken place in the U.S., he brought up the subject of Rev. King. Let it be
said that few people, myself included, at that time knew of King’s philandering
and the plagiarism of his doctoral dissertation. The Legal Attaché spoke at
some length that when Johnson wanted to be amused, “he would play the tapes of
telephone conversations,” obtained by the FBI, between King and the women he
frequented. And LBJ’s choice of words to describe King’s political involvement
were less than complimentary, too.
The irony here is that the “Great Society” of Johnson, who
clearly despised King, set in motion not only the placing of the monstrosity
that now regales all visitors to our nation’s dysfunctional capital: the
enormous statue of King, whose features remind me of those of Pharaoh, but also
the affirmative action hoax that have weakened our nation’s educational
institutions, and, in some definite way, the election of Obama.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
was the president of the Lyndon B.
Johnson administration, a member of the Burning Tree Club, W. DeVier
Pierson was his special counsel, Lynda
Bird Johnson was his daughter, and Robert
A. Caro was his biographer.
Note: John A. Boehner is
a member of the Burning Tree Club,
the house leader for the Republican
establishment, and a speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Richard
M. Nixon was a member of the Burning
Tree Club, the president of the Richard
M. Nixon administration, and an honorary member of the Bohemian Club.
George
H.W. Bush is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, the president of the George
H.W. Bush administration, and a member of the Bohemian Club.
W. DeVier Pierson
is a member of the Burning Tree Club,
a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think tank), and was Lyndon B. Johnson’s special counsel.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Urban Institute (think
tank), ProPublica, the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the
Sundance Institute, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Roosevelt Institute.
Henry A. Kissinger is a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Belizean_Grove
is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a member of the Belizean
Grove, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Jack Valenti was a
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and a member of the Burning
Tree Club.
Ann
McLaughlin Korologos was the chair emeritus for the Aspen Institute (think tank), a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and is married to Tom C. Korologos.
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a director at ProPublica, and was an honorary trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Robert A. Caro is
a member of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, an advisory board member for ProPublica, and Lyndon B.
Johnson’s biographer.
Tom C. Korologos
is married to Ann McLaughlin Korologos,
a member of the Burning Tree Club,
and the chairman for TCK International,
LLC.
TCK
International, LLC is the lobby firm for Al Jazeera.
DLA
Piper was the lobby firm for Al
Jazeera.
Tom Daschle
was a senior policy adviser at DLA Piper,
a nominee for the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary for the Barack Obama administration, is a trustee at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, and a
2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
U.S.
Department of Health Education & Welfare was the predecessor agency for
the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
Joseph A.
Califano Jr. was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Health Education & Welfare, a trustee at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, the
founder of the National Center on
Addiction and Substance Abuse, and a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank).
James
Dimon is a director at the National
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, and a director at the United Negro College Fund.
Luci Baines
Johnson is a trustee at the Lyndon
Baines Johnson Foundation, and Lyndon
B. Johnson’s daughter.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. was a trustee at the Lyndon
Baines Johnson Foundation, is a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, a friend of Linda
Johnson Rice, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Linda Johnson
Rice is a friend of Valerie B.
Jarrett, a director at the United
Negro College Fund, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Mellody L. Hobson
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, was a trustee at the Sundance
Institute, and Bill Moyers
officiated her 2013 wedding.
Geoffrey K. Sands
was a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
and a director at the Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Patricia E.
Mitchell is the vice chair for the Sundance
Institute, and was the president & CEO for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Bill
Moyers officiated Mellody L. Hobson’s
2013 wedding, was Lyndon B. Johnson’s
special assistant & press secretary, the host of Now With Bill Moyers, and is the host of Bill Moyers Journal.
Now With
Bill Moyers was a Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS) program.
Bill Moyers
Journal was a Public Broadcasting
Service (PBS) program.
African
American Lives was a Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS) program.
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. is the host of African
American Lives, a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a director at ProPublica, and was an honorary trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Robert
A. Caro is a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, an advisory board member for ProPublica, and Lyndon B. Johnson’s biographer.
Ann
McLaughlin Korologos was the chair emeritus for the Aspen Institute (think tank), a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and is married to Tom C. Korologos.
Robert
H. Malott was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a board member for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Donald
A. Baer is a director at the Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS), and a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank).
Afsaneh M. Beschloss
is a director at the Public Broadcasting
Service (PBS), and a trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a
trustee at the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, a friend of Linda
Johnson Rice, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Linda Johnson
Rice is a friend of Valerie B.
Jarrett, a director at the United
Negro College Fund, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and contributed $125,000 of Nobel Prize money to the United Negro College Fund.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and was the chairman for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Carnegie
Corporation of New York funded study that led to creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
David A. Hamburg
is the president emeritus for the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
a member of the Bretton Woods Committee,
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a member of the Bretton
Woods Committee, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a life trustee at the
Urban Institute (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a
trustee at the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the Urban
Institute (think tank), the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the United
Negro College Fund.
Larry R. Faulkner
was a trustee at the Lyndon Baines
Johnson Foundation, and is a trustee at the Southern Methodist University.
Laura
Bush is a trustee at the Southern
Methodist University, and married to George
W. Bush.
George
W. Bush is married to Laura Bush,
and George H.W. Bush’s son.
George
H.W. Bush is George W. Bush’s father,
and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
Lyndon B. Johnson
was a member of the Burning Tree Club,
the president of the Lyndon B. Johnson
administration, and Luci Baines
Johnson’s father.
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was a member of the Burning
Tree Club, the president for the Franklin
Delano Roosevelt administration, and his granddaughter is Laura Delano Roosevelt.
Laura Delano
Roosevelt is Franklin Delano
Roosevelt’s granddaughter, and a governor at the Roosevelt Institute.
Ben
F. Barnes is a director at the Roosevelt
Institute, and a trustee at the Lyndon
Baines Johnson Foundation.
Luci Baines
Johnson is a trustee at the Lyndon
Baines Johnson Foundation, and Lyndon
B. Johnson’s daughter.
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