President Lyndon Johnson

Lyndon Johnson became President after the shooting of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. When a world leaders is assassinated, the first question should be: WHO GAINS THE MOST. In this case, Johnson gained the most by becoming President.

Johnson forced the Kennedys to give him the second position as Vice President when he failed to win the nomination as his party's Presidential candidate.

Johnson had presidential ambitions in 1960

Senator Lyndon Johnson had Presidential ambitions in 1960 but he failed to win his party's nomination. The Democratic party nominee was John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was FORCED to offer the Vice Presidential position to Johnson and the 1960 Democratic ticket featured Kennedy-Johnson.

While he ran for Vice President with John F. Kennedy, Johnson also sought a third term in the U.S. Senate. Johnson had the Texas law changed to allow him to run for 2 offices at the same time....If Kennedy lost, Johnson would still have his Senate seat, and another chance at the Presidency.

President Kennedy sent Lyndon on missions to 33 countries during the 35 months that he was Vice President. Most of the chores were ceremonials and funerals (you die, I fly) and the primary intent was to keep him out of Washington and away from any decision making in the government....This greatly infuriated Lyndon who was used to browbeating Senators and running the Senate.

The Kennedys HATED Lyndon Johnson!!

The Kennedys hated Lyndon Johnson. He was the LAST person in the world that Jack Kennedy would choose for his Vice President.

Kennedy's personal secretary for 12 years was named Evelyn Lincoln. Here is a report about the Johnson blackmail:

During the 1960 campaign, according to Mrs. Lincoln, Kennedy discovered how vulnerable his womanizing had made him. Sexual blackmail, she said, had long been part of Lyndon Johnson's modus operandi—abetted by Edgar. "J. Edgar Hoover," Lincoln said, "gave Johnson the information about various congressmen and senators so that Johnson could go to X senator and say, `How about this little deal you have with this woman?' and so forth. That's how he kept them in line. He used his IOUs with them as what he hoped was his road to the presidency. He had this trivia to use, because he had Hoover in his corner. And he thought that the members of Congress would go out there and put him over at the Convention. But then Kennedy beat him at the Convention. And well, after that Hoover and Johnson and their group were able to push Johnson on Kennedy.
"LBJ," said Lincoln, "had been using all the information Hoover could find on Kennedy—during the campaign, even before the Convention. And Hoover was in on the pressure on Kennedy at the Convention." (Summers, Official and Confidential, p. 272).

According to Lincoln, Kennedy had definite plans to drop Johnson for the Vice Presidency in 1964, and replace him with Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina.

The Box 13 scandal—stuffing the ballot box!!

Before 1913, the Constitution mandated that U.S. senators be APPOINTED by the states.

This was the best and wisest system, as it eliminated voting FRAUD and a candidate for the Senate did not have to be rich in order to pay for an election campaign. The 17th Amendment changed all that, and allowed for the direct election of senators.

In 1948, Democrat Lyndon Johnson ran for the U.S. Senate. His opponent was a very popular ex-governor of Texas named Coke R. Stevenson.

With 7 years experience as governor, Coke Stevenson was the ideal candidate to represent his state in the U.S. Senate.

Johnson was definitely going to lose to the popular Texas ex-governor, so his cronies stuffed the ballot box in Jim Wells Country:

For the rest of the week, as the drama of the new vote totals and the startling change in the election results unfolded, Thomas stayed in Alice, carefully watching developments. He remained as the lawyer on the ground, incognito in casual clothes, able to tell Clark what was happening. They could then decide what needed to be done. Thomas was then ready to do it. Prompt destruction of the ballots and the voting lists was the unstated mandate.
At Election Central on Friday morning as soon as the doors opened, the new results were called in. Thomas was listening in Alice as Austin was notified of the results for Jim Wells County. The results for each precinct and county in Duval Country were not changed except for that one, Box 13 in Jim Wells County. The total for Johnson had been reported as 765. The formal report advised that, because of an error on the number seven, it needed to be changed to a nine. Thomas had the illegal ballots to back up the new total.
When the final results were in that day, with some minor changes in a few other precincts statewide, Johnson was ahead by eighty-seven votes.
Outrage was immediate and widespread. Everyone knew what had happened. Stevenson took charge and went to work. He just had to prove Johnson's lies. (McClellan, Blood, Money & Power, p. 91).

Coke Stevenson appealed the case all the way to the Supreme Court but to no avail. "Lyin" Lyndon as many Texans now called him, had stolen the election and was on his way to the U.S. Senate!!

"Lyin" Lyndon and his mistress!!

Lyndon was definitely ambitious and ruthless in obtaining his goals. He obviously had his eyes on the Presidency but he had no qualms about taking a mistress or mistresses!!

One of LBJ's mistresses was a married woman named Madeline Duncan Brown. Madeleine's husband—James Glynn Brown—a Marine Corps veteran, went crazy after returning from World War II and was committed to an asylum....Madeleine met her future lover at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, just after his Senate "victory."

They began an affair and she soon became pregnant. Johnson advised her to get an abortion, but she refused, because abortion was illegal in Texas at that time. The result was a boy named Mark Stephen, born in Dec. 1949.

Johnson's rôle in the assassination of President Kennedy

When a world leaders is assassinated, the first question should be: WHO GAINS THE MOST. In this case, Johnson gained the most by becoming President.

Lyndon Johnson met with some of the conspirators the night before the murder of the President. Here is a report from eyewitness Madeleine Brown:

On Thursday night, Nov. 21, 1963, the last evening prior to Camelot's demise, I attended a social at Clint Murchison's home. It was my understanding that the event was scheduled as a tribute honoring his long time friend, J. Edgar Hoover, whom Murchison had first met decades earlier through President William Howard Taft, and Hoover's companion and assistant, Clyde Tolson.
The impressive guest list included John J. McCloy, Richard Nixon, George Brown, R.L. Thornton, H.L. Hunt, and a host of others from the 8F group.
The jovial party was just breaking up when Lyndon made an unscheduled visit. I was most surprised by his appearance, since Jesse had not mentioned anything about Lyndon's coming to Clint's. With Lyndon's hectic schedule, I never dreamed he could attend the big party. After all, he had arrived in Dallas on Tuesday to attend the Pepsi-Cola convention.
Tension filled the room upon his arrival. The group immediately went behind closed doors. A short time later Lyndon, anxious and red-faced, reappeared.
I knew how secretively Lyndon operated. Therefore, I said nothing ... not even that I was happy to see him. Squeezing my hand so hard it felt crushed from the pressure, he spoke with a grating whisper—a quiet growl into my ear not a love message, but one I'll always remember: "After tomorrow those goddamn Kennedys will never embarrass me again—that's no threat—that's a promise."
I visibly trembled. He said nothing else, but was off in a flash to join a party at Pat Kirkwood's "Cellar Door," an after-hours night club in Fort Worth. (Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning, p. 166).

Vice President Johnson took the oath of office on a Roman missal!!

After the assassination of President Kennedy, and before even his body had grown cold in death, Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One.

Instead of a Bible, Johnson took the oath of office on a Roman Catholic missal—a book containing all the prayers and responses necessary for celebrating the mass throughout the year.

Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President by Judge Sarah T. Hughes just hours after the assassination. Judge Hughes brought a small Bible for the swearing in ceremony, but it was substituted for a Roman Missal (Mass book) that was found on the plane. . . .This was a completely illegal act as the President of the Unites States must take the oath of office with his hand on the Bible before he is the lawful President.... President Lincoln and President Truman kissed the Bible when they were sworn in!! Here is a report by free lance journalist and writer Nerin E. Gun:

We must wait for Mrs Kennedy," said Lyndon Johnson. "She is bringing her husband's coffin."
Someone commented that Mrs Kennedy's presence at the ceremony would in a way confirm the continuity of the régime; she would, so to speak, "legitimise" the new president.
At 2:18 p.m. Jacqueline Kennedy arrived. Three Secret Service men, and some soldiers, carried the coffin to the back of the plane— but still in the passenger cabin. Jacqueline sat down beside it.
When Johnson took the Oath, Army Captain Cecil Stoughton, official photographer at the White House, recorded the scene on a special 50 mm camera. He took nine photos. Three journalists boarded the plane, as representing the world press.
Jacqueline was on Johnson's left, as the latter repeated the Constitutional formula after Judge Hughes. The woman judge was trembling; she did not use the Bible she had brought with her, but a small Catholic Missal, found in the plane near Kennedy's bed.
Johnson gently kissed Jacqueline on the cheek, then his wife. Then he said firmly: "Now let's take the plane back to Washington (Gun, Red Roses from Texas, p. 183).

Johnson said that he never felt better on the day of Kennedy's assassination:

On Air Force One, Johnson had taken the oath of office from judge Sarah T. Hughes. The photos clearly show a solemn new president beside the still shocked widow undertaking his new job with deep regret, all as he should. Then, as he completed the oath and officially assumed the mantle of president, he could not contain himself. The last photo in the series shows him with his face turned, the back left side of his face deeply creased with a big smile, apparently winking at longtime colleague Congressman Albert Thomas, who was there as a witness. The congressman winked back, and Lady Bird smiled. As he would later candidly say, on that day "I never felt better. (McClellan, Blood, Money and Power, p. 212).

President Johnson made J. Edgar Hoover FBI director for life!!

J. Edgar Hoover was FBI director since 1924. The FBI—Federal Bureau of Islam, was founded in 1908 by Charles Joseph Bonaparte—grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte!!

Hoover was the most feared man in Washington because he kept secret files on ALMOST everybody....He had direct access to every President . . . until the Kennedy administration.

President Kennedy made his brother, Robert Kennedy, Attorney General. That made him Hoover's boss and he made Hoover obey the chain of command, which went from the President, through the Attorney General, to Director of the FBI.

In 1942, the Johnsons bought a house directly across the street from Hoover and his BOYFRIEND Clyde Tolson:

"The (radio) station was not the only purchase Lady Bird made in 1942. By then, she also owned a house in Washington, a two-story, brick colonial at 4129 Thirtieth Place, a few blocks off Connecticut Avenue in northwest Washington. The house had an attic, a basement, and a large porch in the backyard that overlooked an enormous garden, which Lady Bird eventually covered with zinnias and peonies. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, lived directly across the street." (Russell, Lady Bird, p. 148).

You can be absolutely sure that had President Kennedy lived, J. Edgar Hoover would be out the door at age 70.

Before Hoover reached the mandatory retirement age of seventy on January 1, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson staged a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden to announce his waiver of retirement: "J. Edgar Hoover is a hero to millions of decent citizens and an anathema to evil men. No other American, now or in our past, has served the cause of justice so faithfully and so well.
"J. Edgar Hoover has served the government since 1917. He has served nine presidents and this Sunday he celebrates his fortieth year as director of the FBI. Under his guiding hand, the FBI has become the greatest investigative body in history.
"Edgar, the law says that you must retire next January when you reach your seventieth birthday and I know you wouldn't want to break the law. But the nation cannot afford to lose you. Therefore, by virtue of an act pursuant to the authority vested in the President, I have today signed an Executive Order exempting you from compulsory retirement for an indefinite period of time. (Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning, p. 141).

The timely death of President Johnson

Because of massive protests against the Vietnam War, Johnson decided not to run for President in 1968. Robert Kennedy, the brother of Jack, was conveniently liquidated and that left the door wide open for Republican Richard Nixon.

In January 1969, Johnson retired to his ranch in Texas. Johnson did have medical problems due to the stress of the Presidency, but he was as tough as Texas rawhide, and retirement should have greatly improved his health.

He knew too much however, and with the drama of Rockefeller for President unfolding before his very eyes, he might inadvertently say something. That is why he had a very timely demise . . . because dead men tell no tales:

The 65 year old Johnson suffered a fatal heart attack on Jan. 22, 1973, while resting at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas. Two days later, he was given a state funeral in Washington City and Austin, Texas, before internment in the family cemetery on the LBJ ranch.

The timely death of President Johnson's son, Mark Stephen.

Many, many people connected with the assassination of President Kennedy died mysteriously. Madeleine Duncan Brown and her son had a very nasty traffic accident in 1967, and it left her with staggering medical bills. Her son, Mark Stephen, decided to sue the Johnson estate for 10 million dollars:

Here is a quote from the book: Texas in the Morning:

Then on June 18, 1987, Steven flied a $10.5 million suit against Lady Bird, claiming that Lady Bird, Jesse Kellam and Jerome Ragsdale had conspired to deny him his birthright and his fair share of Lyndon's inheritance.
"In a public forum, sooner or later, the truth comes out," Steven said, "That's what is important to me. I want my last name changed to Johnson, the way it should be."
Steven prepared to take the state bar exam in order to legally represent himself in his own lawsuit. It would be his first case, in fact, and he felt his success would be overwhelming. Steven was totally unlike his famous father where ambition and morals were involved. He had aspired to be an attorney from an early age. He hoped to write legislation one day that would revoke the double racial standard and improve Texas laws on a variety of progressive issues. He would have achieved this, I believe, had he lived.
I tried to discourage Steven from filing his lawsuit in Dallas County. The political arena there was influenced by the affluent echelons of the social register-who highly admire and respect Lady Bird Johnson. (Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning, p. 228).

Before the case went to court, Stephen Mark was arrested by the Navy as a deserter and spent many months at Corpus Christi Texas Naval Air Station, where all kinds of medical tests were done on him. When his mother finally had him rescued, his lawsuit was dismissed on grounds that he failed to appear for his court date!!

I still shed tears over the military's barbaric treatment of my son. It is difficult to believe that anyone deserved this kind of inhuman brutality, especially a man who was the son of the late President, Lyndon Johnson.
After forty-eight hours of unsuccessful attempts to reach Admiral Taylor of the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, I finally made contact with one of the staff's top medical officers, a man who appeared to be somewhat sympathetic, who told me he would order a full investigation. He also agreed to release Steven so that my son could return home a few days before Christmas.
Instead, they transferred him to the Army's Brooks General Hospital in San Antonio, where his father's records were stored. There, the army gave him a bone marrow test.
I flew to San Antonio and had a conference with the medical staff, who indicated they would release Steven at 2 p.m. When I returned to Brooks, I found my son's bed empty. Steven was gone! I almost collapsed on the spot. No one would talk to me. They acted like zombies.
Upon returning home I hired a Capitol Hill private detective. Finally, after two months, we located Steven in Bethesda Naval Hospital and brought him back to Texas where he was confined to a hospital until he died. (Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning, pp. 231-232).

Mark Stephen Brown a.k.a. Johnson died of "lymphatic cancer" in 1990.

Vital link

Madeleine was so MAD at her son's murderers that she made this video before she died in 2002.... Madeleine said that the planning for the assassination of President Kennedy started right after the election in 1960.

References

Brown, Madeleine Duncan. Texas in the Morning. The Love Story of Madeleine Brown & President Lyndon Johnson. The Conservatory Press. Baltimore, MD., 1997.

Caro, Robert. A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. The Path to Power. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.

Caro, Robert. A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Means of Ascent. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990.

Caro, Robert. A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Master of the Senate. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2002.

Gun, Nerin E. Red Roses from Texas. Frederick Muller Ltd., London, 1964.

Haley, J. Evetts. A Texan Looks at Lyndon: A Study in Illegitimate Power. Palo Duro Press, Canyon, Texas, 1964.

Joachim Joesten. The Dark Side of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Peter Dawnay Ltd., London, 1968.

McClellan, Barr. Blood, Money & Power. How LBJ. Killed JFK. Hannover House, New York, 2003.

Middleton, Harry. LBJ. The White House Years. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1990.

Russell, Jan Jarboe. Lady Bird. A Biography of Mrs. Johnson. Scribner, New York, 1999.

Summers, Anthony. Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1993.

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