I read the book, "Path to Power." It's amazing how racist he was his entire life. Insecure, poverty stricken, obsessed, egotistical, and racist. The book is titled, "path to power" because his entire life was focused on gaining power and prestige, something he did not have growing up as a poor, skinny, loser in rural Texas.
The fact that "In 1968, Johnson announced he would not run for reelection" could be proof that he may have been given a different fate than what the news reported as a heart attack. Anyone who knows LBJ knows he would never surrender power, nor would he "not try" to retain power. During his first senatorial run in Texas, he went door to door for months straight, driving all day, not eating (didn't have the money), and just shaking hands. He'd drive all over texas for those votes. He eventually would lose (to voter fraud, with FDR joked with him about), but his stamina for power remained unchanged. He always wanted more, and would do whatever it takes, including destroying his body, for more power.
He did have some good in him in his young adult years, but overall he was not a good person. Voted against the Civil Rights act in the early 1900's when he first became senator before the War. People don't realize that Democrats have been racist since the dawn of the party, the history books tell us. To me this is the greatest proof of "there was never a party flip." Democrats have always been the party of racism. And LBJ being a democrat in the early 1900s all the way into the 70's just disproves the lie of a party switch.
I read the book, "Path to Power." It's amazing how racist he was his entire life. Insecure, poverty stricken, obsessed, egotistical, and racist.
He did have some good in him in his young adult years, but overall he was not a good person. Voted against the Civil Rights act in the early 1900's when he first became senator before the War. People don't realize that Democrats have been racist since the dawn of the party, the history books tell us. To me this is the greatest proof of "there was never a party flip." Democrats have always been the party of racism. And LBJ being a democrat in the early 1900s all the way into the 70's just disproves the lie of a party switch.