“Vice President Nixon was not at liberty to tell you about all of our post WWII plans under MKULTRA. I am going to do so more now. I was in the Senate making many legistlative moves neccessary to support his MKULTRA and Marshall Plan possible.” LBJ said.
J Edgar Hoover Free Mason listened but said nothing of international FBI operations.
LBJ was thinking about Thorkill Krisenson
, he was secretary general of the OECD from 1960-1969. He was the founder of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS), making it one of the first futures research institutes on the European continent. He was managing director at CIFS from 1970–1988.
He participated in the Club of Rome which attracted considerable public attention with its report, Limits to Growth, which has sold 30 million copies in more than 30 translations, making it the best selling environmental book in world history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorkil_Kristensen
Add in Linda Newkirk calling Rockefller Standard Oil Little Rock tied to “aliens landing” the NWO from above.
“You know I have been trying to stand down the subversion of sovereign governments via CIA and US DOD programs!” JFK said.
“This isn;’t just the USA. We have close ties to Great Brittain. They have the Cecil Rhodes system of an .. let us call it .. an invisible wind that blows independent governments to lean in our direction, not the USSR’s.
LBJ said “We have throughout our Special Relationship with Great Brittain been doing that and especially since WWII when we and the Vatican with us were fighting Nazi Germany.
“It was decided ..” LBJ said “That your administration was closely tied to the Republic of Ireland and fights against the East India Tea Company thus we never “sold you” that is to say “told you” about how successfull this plan is and what can do and has done.”
JFK was exasperated. “This is exacally what me and my family have fought against including with Mafia ties. I wan’t nothing to do with this.
“I will scatter the CIA into the wind for these kinds of acts is what I have been asserting and I will do so.”
“With all due respect Mr. President these programs are long term national programs and their revelation may well cost the US any of its existing or potentiall allies even up to and including our relationship with Great Brittian if you out this.
“We need allies, not to loose them” LBJ stated again.
As JFK left the room he thought getting rid of Dulles and Cabell was not enough. Now LBJ had to go, though JFK had said nothing.
“Nixon, this is LBJ. I think I am goig to get fired, dropped from the ticket”
“Let’s get Geroge H.W. Bush and the other hit organizers going. Give the go-ahead.”
Secret Societies and the US Presidency
https://www.insider.com/us-presidents-who-were-in-secret-societies-2017-4#james-k-polk-freemasons-5
In a previous post, we showed a few of the political textiles in the National Heritage Museum collection. Recently, we were given an object associated with Lyndon Baines Johnson’s (1908-1973) 1964 campaign – a red plastic Stetson-style cowboy hat.
The silver label on the front shows a steer’s head and the initials LBJ. The donor and her siblings wore this hat during childhood play, but it probably dates to the 1964 Democratic convention. During the election that year, Johnson ran against Republican Barry Goldwater (1909-1998). Johnson’s campaign images focused on his identity as a Texan; he was often photographed wearing a hat like this one.
After the shocking assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) in November 1963, Johnson vowed to continue to pursue the slain president’s goals, particularly working on civil rights initiatives. Johnson gained popularity during the remainder of Kennedy’s term and it was clear early on that he would be victorious in 1964. The only question was how large the landslide would be. Indeed, election night 1964 found Johnson the winner, with 61% of the vote and the widest popular margin in history – more than 15 million votes.
Incidentally, Johnson did receive the first Masonic degree, Entered Apprentice, in 1937 at Johnson City Lodge No. 561, Johnson City, Texas. But he did not receive the second and third degrees, so is not included on the list of U.S. Presidents who were Freemasons.
LBJ Cowboy Hat, ca. 1964, National Heritage Museum collection, gift of Susan Ward, 2009.071. Photograph by David Bohl.
Sources:
Roger A. Fischer, Tippecanoe and Trinkets Too: The Material Culture of American Presidential Campaigns, 1828-1984, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., ed., Running for President: The Candidates and Their Images, volume 2, 1900-1992, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Jordan M. Wright, Campaigning for President, New York: Smithsonian Books, 2008.
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Eward Paul Donegan says Donald Barr, James Jesus Angleton, J. Edgar Hoover, Thorkill Kristensen (creating “clones” of British Royals mixed race for Sleeper agents planted around the world were higher order Scotish Rites and that ties to Feb 20 November 18 1961 and world economies cultivated by Free Masons.
we have seen the beaches of some more and the pastures of New Zealand and the right is of Australian there’s so muchlike the American West that we love we’ve been to the rice paddies of Vietnam and Philippines and Thailand thehills of Korea the forests of Malaysia and now we’ve seen the snow in themountains of Alaska[Applause] shortly before midnight on a rainyNovember 1st President Lyndon Johnson landed at homeand off Air Force Base in Anchorage Alaska he was on American soilfor the first time in 17 days his 28 thousand mile Odyssey through Southeast Asia was open the manila conference washistory and the American commitment to the non-communist nations of the Pacific had been fully underscored perhaps thereal impact of the presidential mission would not be properly gauged for months or even years but one thing was alreadyclear at Manila the United States had formally declared its willingness to guarantee the security of the westernPacific and to help the people of that area in the development of a new regional cooperation for contemporaryhistorians this was a new and major benchmark in American foreign policy [Applause][Music] [Applause]that partnership will endure just as long as the leaders who met at Manila22:00 and who work and try to make you do and I think it will endure long afterthose of us have met there have passed from the scene and now we are coming tothe end of our journey we’re winding our way back to Washington it has been themost rewarding and the most thrilling and the most encouraging journey of my entire lifeI believe it may also have been their most important and the most historic[Music][Applause] the job has certainly not done the war in Vietnam is not over great obstaclesmust be overcome before progress is built into the life of Asia and the Pacific and before the region organizesitself early on a cooperative basis but everywhere we went I’m a strong man whoputs their shoulder to the wheel and their hands to the tab I saw leaders who know that in this erathe ultimate success of political power lies with the people everywhere thedrumbeat of equality can be heard and the leaders of modern Asia are gettingin depth with it rather fast during the17 day journey the members of the White House press corps who had traveled with him had shared in and since theexcitement and the almost desperate eagerness among the people of a vast region to bring a new order andstability into their own lives on the morning of November 3rd with the president back and already busy in theWhite House the question uppermost in minds of the newsmen concerned the off-year elections for more than a weekmany reporters in and outside of the White House had been speculating about the president’s probable campaign roleduring the final days before November the 8th the answer to their speculationscame at a 3:30 news conference in the captive room [Music][Applause] surgery to repair a defect at the siteof the incision made during the gallbladder operation a year ago after final discussion to a doctor BerkeleySeoul Korea she accepted his recommendation that the operation takeplace within a period of 15 18 days fromnow the doctors also intend at that timefrom my building they have recommended that I became a huge schedule ofactivities in preparation for operation to leave tomorrow protectionthe small polyp in the president’s throat had caused a hoarseness that had become noticeable during the Augustcampaign swing through upstate New York it had cleared up from time to time buthad occurred again just before the Asian trip although the tissue would be tested after the operation the chance that thegrowth was cancerous seemed remote the recurrence of the difficulty associatedwith a gallbladder operation was a matter of averages on which the President had been unlucky but theoperation itself was not an uncommon one given his durable physique it appearedthat the president would confront the ordeal with every prospect of a normal and speedy recoverythe Asian tour had been a triumph of the qualities most predominant in his nature Drive stamina and the constant desire tomeet people face to face [Music]if he had felt any personal indisposition or physical pain it hadn’tkept him from fulfilling every commitment of his two-and-a-half week journey he had yielded to the demands ofhis surgeons only when the mission had been completed and now that he had yielded he was paying the full price ofthe presidency the questions about his health were incessant and inevitable aswere the Ryan cynical comments by some of his critics but perhaps the surgerywas being scheduled with an eye more to partisan than to medical considerationshe took it in stride held a nationally televised news conference the following afternoon introduced five new members ofthe White House family to the press and then left for the Texas White House[Music][Applause] [Music] [Applause][Music]on the morning of November 5th Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara arrived atthe LBJ Ranch to continue discussions with President Johnson on the defense budget for fiscal 1968 and to offer somebrand-new equations on the war in Vietnam whereas the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong forces were approachingpossible victory some 15 months ago I think it’s clear to all that today amilitary victory is beyond their grasp one year ago we were in the midst of a very rapid troop expansion in SouthVietnam today a slowdown in our rate of troop deployment to that country asplanned although the United States would continue its increased militaryoperations in South Vietnam in 1967 lower draft calls would be made over thenext four month period beginning in December the number of air attacks per month during the coming yearbarring any emergencies would remain at their present levels this trend toward astabilization in the war reflected a military situation in which it was now clear that the Vietcong and their northvietnamese allied could no longer achieve a military victory the problem now is to demonstrate our staying powerwhile searching for a path to the conference table [Music]outwardly President Johnson seemed to be maintaining his posture as a preoperative patient seeking rest andrelaxation in the atmosphere of his ranch at first Lance even his officeseemed quiet giving little indication of the schedule he had already set for himself prior to his operation we will beprocessing something like a thousand bills in the next few days and we dowant to get through the examination these measures and take action on themas soon as we can I’m expecting mr. comer my special assistant connection with Vietnam toarrive late today or early tomorrow morning and my request Victor Gardnerhas submitted to me some very far-reaching proposals for major reorganizations of the health educationwelfare the park I expect him back to Goldberg to arrive at the ranch sometime before I leave sentence on you tomorrow hope have some expended discussions withHammond perhaps maybe fly on in San Antonio would me[Music]on the morning of November 7 President Johnson and United Nations ambassador Arthur Goldberg left the LBJ Ranch on atrip to Cotulla Texas to honor national education week their second stop of theday would be Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio where the chief executive would undergo a preoperative physicalexamination on the first leg of their journey they talked about Vietnam thiscountry search for peace within the framework of the United Nations had elicited some new signals faint andindirect as they were they had come from countries previously no less rigid in their posture than Hanoi since it wasobvious that the countries involved seemed anxious to join in the search for peace President Johnson asked ambassadorGoldberg to respond to these new signals using any appropriate channel or personal visit that might affect theprospects for a possible settlement in1928 Lyndon Johnson was a young man working his way through San Marcos Teachers College because of finances andthe desire to get on with what he thought would be his life’s vocation he had begun his teaching career beforegraduation in the small mexican-american community of Cotulla[Music] and in that year I think I learned farmore than I talk and the greatest list was this one nothing nothing at allmatters more than trained intelligence it is the key not only to success inlife but it is the key to meaning in life to quit school today before you goas far as you can means to aim a loaded pistol at yourlife [Music][Music]shortly before 3:00 p.m. the president arrived at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio you have a kind of a curtainhanging over you not knowing it’s coolwater and that’s what I want to do is the doctors will let me physically hewas in good condition the hospital x-rays had proved negative and his blood pressure and electrocardiogram werenormal now the decision on when and where was up to the doctors at 7:21 a.m.on November 8th president and mrs. Johnson drove in from the ranch to the perdón Allie’s Electric co-op buildingin Johnson City to vote since his return from Asia on the previous ThursdayPresident Johnson had conducted a continuous dialogue with the press on Vietnam inflation white backlash and theachievements of the 89th Congress he had signed a multitude of bills into law and shuttled politicians diplomats andcabinet officers in and out of Texas with all of the precision of commuters catching the 8:05 he managed to make hisevery move felt in a majority of political constituencies in the country and all of this without making oneformal political speech or barnstorming tour as one prominent news analyst putit later all in all it was quite a performance by early evening the trendof the elections was clear the Republicans would score a gain of close to 47 seats in the house three in theSenate and pick up seven or eight governorships although there would be many theoriesabout the voting trend it was obvious that the American public had reverted to the historical rhythm that so oftendictates victory for the out party in the off year electionsmolest Frank if I didn’t tell you that I’m sorry we lost any American peoplehave a way I guess balancing things but we will have you recommendations we willbe breathing the members of Congress on them from time to time and I don’tanticipate that we’re going to have any great trouble sixty-five majority in thehouse 30 a majority in the Senate is a reasonable working majorityalthough he was anxious to get on with his operation it was obvious by Friday morning that the president would bespending the weekend at the ranch his first guest was ambassador at large Averell Harriman[Music] following the Manila conference which he had attended with the presidentambassador Herriman had made a flying tour of 11 Pacific areas and European countries at each stop he told the Headsof Government about the success of the exchange at Manila and he had encouraged each leader to make recommendations orsuggestions that they thought might lead to the conference table in Vietnam eachone of the countries wants to see peace a peaceful settlement on almost everycase they recognize the need to stop aggression the president said and I found it conserved everywhere that everycountry in the world was exception of the Red China and I know I want to see peace and that consensus of opinion thepressure world opinion I think as gives us a right to have some encouragement[Music] on Sunday morning the 13th the firstfamily attended church services in Fredericksburga full complement of reporters and newscameramen stood outside waiting and talking about the press conference that had been called for 10:15 at theFredericksburg Municipal Center most of them felt sure that the operation schedule had now been firmedup and that surgery would take place early in the coming week the only other question on their minds was where weplanned to go into Bethesda Naval Hospital that choose the afternoon spendthe afternoon evening there and will undergo surgery early Wednesday morningI have talked to the vice president and as you know from last October theagreement that was in existence between President Kennedy and myselfPresident Eisenhower Vice President Nixon will be in effect during thatperiod we will leave San Antonio tomorrow morning that mid-morning nineten o’clock we expect that we’ll be in the hospital for a few days and thenwe’ll be returning to Texas I am hopefully I can spend a good portion ofmy time on the budget between now and the first of the year in the State of the Union message and except forsometime in December when we have some previous engagements in Washington we’llspend a good deal of our time here wellwish you didn’t have to do it I feel fine think that the operationsare relatively minor you never want to go to a hospital for any reason pleasethat such as they are have good doctors hospital staff good people around me Ithink circumstance is about as well as it could be President Johnson enteredBethesda Naval Hospital just before 7 p.m. on the evening of November 15the serger was begun at 6:27 a.m. the following morning at 7:20 presssecretary bill moyers was able to call vice president Hubert Humphrey the dual operation had been successful and thepresident was already on the way to his room the throat polyp which had been removed 17 minutes after surgery hadbegun had already been pronounced benign by 734 President Johnson was consciousand responding to instructions from his doctors 20 minutes later he signaled for a pad and pencil and wrote tell mesomething tell me all that took placeby 8 o’clock the next morning President Johnson was up and about playing host to former president dwight d– eisenhowerthe two men talked for nearly an hour about the course of the war in vietnam and president johnson renewed hislong-standing wish that the former chief executive consider going on a goodwill mission to Asia and other parts of theworld during the coming spring [Music]after a long afternoon nap the president capped his second full day in the hospital with a surprise 32nd weddinganniversary party for lady Berg among the special guests were Vice President and mrs. Hubert Humphreyby Friday it was obvious to his doctors that the chief executive was well on the road to recovery despite the fact thathis voice was hardly above a whisper he had still managed to spend a number of his post-operative hours talking tocabinet officers agency heads and reporters about the barrage of work that still had to be done before the first ofthe year he’d also found time to say his special hellos to a small friend tolisten to a battery of television newscast throughout each day and talk wistfully about home and the benefits ofsome Texas sunshine just before noon on Friday the 19th thedoctors gave him his wish he was pronounced physically fit and able to travel by 1237 his Washington calendarhad been cleared through the rest of November and he was on his way home[Music][Music][Applause] [Music]Wednesday the 23rd despite some physical discomfort earlier in the week he acted as the solowelcoming committee at the LBJ Ranch for Secretary of State Dean Rusk Secretaryof Defense Robert McNamara presidential assistant Walter Rostovand John McCloy the United States representative to the NATO tripartite talks on the planned agenda werediscussions on Vietnam and an examination of the United States military and political posture in natanprior to the resumption of the trilateral talks with West Germany and Britain on the 28th of the month[Music]while President Johnson was still in conference with his first four guest of the day James Webb and a party ofseveral top officials from NASA along with astronauts Edwin Aldrin and James Lovell and their wives arrived from theHouston Space Center to accept the congratulations of the President on the completion of the Gemini program[Music]in ten Gemini flights the United States had acquired 1940 man-hours of paysetting flight experience ten times in a period of over 20 months two-man teamshad gone in orbit around the Earth each time they had been brought home safely the final flight which had begun on themorning of November 15th was the culmination of a team effort that stretched back to 1961 and directlyinvolved more than 25,000 people in government industry and university research centers the planet performanceof man and machine in Yemen has been a product of the American system and its best we are especially proud that ourprogram has been carried out openly millions of people around the world havewatched on television as the Titan rocket took the gym in the astronauts skyward the months ahead will not beeasy as we reach toward the moon but the Germany is the forerunner we willovercome the difficulties and we will achieve another success as a combinationto the day’s ceremonies astronauts Aldrin and Lovell made a presentation of their home an aerial view of the LBJRanch taken from 160 miles out in spaceon Friday November 25th with a restful Thanksgiving Day behind him President Johnson went back to work with avengeance to ease the pole in his mending side he took to the ranch runway for exercise and a day in the Sun[Music]at noon the President and mrs. Johnson and House Appropriations Committee Chairman George Bayonwelcomed an early contingent of legislative leaders to the first congressional bipartisan session to everbe held at the LBJ rank among thearrivals were hostage Rd leader Carl Albert House Majority Whip Bail Bonds and House Minority Leader Gerald pore[Music]with the arrival of vice president mrs. Humphrey Senate Majority Leader MikeMansfield and the president’s friendly adversary Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen the formal session was all butunder way [Music]although the leadership delved into the military and diplomatic situation in Vietnam and held a short generaldiscussion on the legislative outlook for the coming year the heart of the discussion concerned the budget over afive and a half year period the country’s economic growth have brought an abundance far beyond any record orany expectation but there were pressures which now burdened continued growthinflation was the cruelest and most capricious burden of all On January 19th1960 sector President Johnson had recommended a special program to take several billion dollars out of theeconomy through a series of revenue measures in March Congress had responded by enacting his proposals on September 8he had outlined a further program to fight inflation[Applause][Applause]more than any other state document the budget would translate rhetoric into reality assigning priorities and pricetags to the presidency one of the certain tags was the war in Vietnam as aconflict was already[Music]and so heading toward the new year and with relatively little room to maneuverPresident Johnson began making preparations to sustain the domestic goals[Music]
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we have seen the beaches of some more and the pastures of New Zealand and the right is of Australian there’s so muchlike the American West that we love we’ve been to the rice paddies of Vietnam and Philippines and Thailand thehills of Korea the forests of Malaysia and now we’ve seen the snow in themountains of Alaska[Applause] shortly before midnight on a rainyNovember 1st President Lyndon Johnson landed at homeand off Air Force Base in Anchorage Alaska he was on American soilfor the first time in 17 days his 28 thousand mile Odyssey through Southeast Asia was open the manila conference washistory and the American commitment to the non-communist nations of the Pacific had been fully underscored perhaps thereal impact of the presidential mission would not be properly gauged for months or even years but one thing was alreadyclear at Manila the United States had formally declared its willingness to guarantee the security of the westernPacific and to help the people of that area in the development of a new regional cooperation for contemporaryhistorians this was a new and major benchmark in American foreign policy [Applause][Music] [Applause]that partnership will endure just as long as the leaders who met at Manila22:00 and who work and try to make you do and I think it will endure long afterthose of us have met there have passed from the scene and now we are coming tothe end of our journey we’re winding our way back to Washington it has been themost rewarding and the most thrilling and the most encouraging journey of my entire lifeI believe it may also have been their most important and the most historic[Music][Applause] the job has certainly not done the war in Vietnam is not over great obstaclesmust be overcome before progress is built into the life of Asia and the Pacific and before the region organizesitself early on a cooperative basis but everywhere we went I’m a strong man whoputs their shoulder to the wheel and their hands to the tab I saw leaders who know that in this erathe ultimate success of political power lies with the people everywhere thedrumbeat of equality can be heard and the leaders of modern Asia are gettingin depth with it rather fast during the17 day journey the members of the White House press corps who had traveled with him had shared in and since theexcitement and the almost desperate eagerness among the people of a vast region to bring a new order andstability into their own lives on the morning of November 3rd with the president back and already busy in theWhite House the question uppermost in minds of the newsmen concerned the off-year elections for more than a weekmany reporters in and outside of the White House had been speculating about the president’s probable campaign roleduring the final days before November the 8th the answer to their speculationscame at a 3:30 news conference in the captive room [Music][Applause] surgery to repair a defect at the siteof the incision made during the gallbladder operation a year ago after final discussion to a doctor BerkeleySeoul Korea she accepted his recommendation that the operation takeplace within a period of 15 18 days fromnow the doctors also intend at that timefrom my building they have recommended that I became a huge schedule ofactivities in preparation for operation to leave tomorrow protectionthe small polyp in the president’s throat had caused a hoarseness that had become noticeable during the Augustcampaign swing through upstate New York it had cleared up from time to time buthad occurred again just before the Asian trip although the tissue would be tested after the operation the chance that thegrowth was cancerous seemed remote the recurrence of the difficulty associatedwith a gallbladder operation was a matter of averages on which the President had been unlucky but theoperation itself was not an uncommon one given his durable physique it appearedthat the president would confront the ordeal with every prospect of a normal and speedy recoverythe Asian tour had been a triumph of the qualities most predominant in his nature Drive stamina and the constant desire tomeet people face to face [Music]if he had felt any personal indisposition or physical pain it hadn’tkept him from fulfilling every commitment of his two-and-a-half week journey he had yielded to the demands ofhis surgeons only when the mission had been completed and now that he had yielded he was paying the full price ofthe presidency the questions about his health were incessant and inevitable aswere the Ryan cynical comments by some of his critics but perhaps the surgerywas being scheduled with an eye more to partisan than to medical considerationshe took it in stride held a nationally televised news conference the following afternoon introduced five new members ofthe White House family to the press and then left for the Texas White House[Music][Applause] [Music] [Applause][Music]on the morning of November 5th Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara arrived atthe LBJ Ranch to continue discussions with President Johnson on the defense budget for fiscal 1968 and to offer somebrand-new equations on the war in Vietnam whereas the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong forces were approachingpossible victory some 15 months ago I think it’s clear to all that today amilitary victory is beyond their grasp one year ago we were in the midst of a very rapid troop expansion in SouthVietnam today a slowdown in our rate of troop deployment to that country asplanned although the United States would continue its increased militaryoperations in South Vietnam in 1967 lower draft calls would be made over thenext four month period beginning in December the number of air attacks per month during the coming yearbarring any emergencies would remain at their present levels this trend toward astabilization in the war reflected a military situation in which it was now clear that the Vietcong and their northvietnamese allied could no longer achieve a military victory the problem now is to demonstrate our staying powerwhile searching for a path to the conference table [Music]outwardly President Johnson seemed to be maintaining his posture as a preoperative patient seeking rest andrelaxation in the atmosphere of his ranch at first Lance even his officeseemed quiet giving little indication of the schedule he had already set for himself prior to his operation we will beprocessing something like a thousand bills in the next few days and we dowant to get through the examination these measures and take action on themas soon as we can I’m expecting mr. comer my special assistant connection with Vietnam toarrive late today or early tomorrow morning and my request Victor Gardnerhas submitted to me some very far-reaching proposals for major reorganizations of the health educationwelfare the park I expect him back to Goldberg to arrive at the ranch sometime before I leave sentence on you tomorrow hope have some expended discussions withHammond perhaps maybe fly on in San Antonio would me[Music]on the morning of November 7 President Johnson and United Nations ambassador Arthur Goldberg left the LBJ Ranch on atrip to Cotulla Texas to honor national education week their second stop of theday would be Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio where the chief executive would undergo a preoperative physicalexamination on the first leg of their journey they talked about Vietnam thiscountry search for peace within the framework of the United Nations had elicited some new signals faint andindirect as they were they had come from countries previously no less rigid in their posture than Hanoi since it wasobvious that the countries involved seemed anxious to join in the search for peace President Johnson asked ambassadorGoldberg to respond to these new signals using any appropriate channel or personal visit that might affect theprospects for a possible settlement in1928 Lyndon Johnson was a young man working his way through San Marcos Teachers College because of finances andthe desire to get on with what he thought would be his life’s vocation he had begun his teaching career beforegraduation in the small mexican-american community of Cotulla[Music] and in that year I think I learned farmore than I talk and the greatest list was this one nothing nothing at allmatters more than trained intelligence it is the key not only to success inlife but it is the key to meaning in life to quit school today before you goas far as you can means to aim a loaded pistol at yourlife [Music][Music]shortly before 3:00 p.m. the president arrived at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio you have a kind of a curtainhanging over you not knowing it’s coolwater and that’s what I want to do is the doctors will let me physically hewas in good condition the hospital x-rays had proved negative and his blood pressure and electrocardiogram werenormal now the decision on when and where was up to the doctors at 7:21 a.m.on November 8th president and mrs. Johnson drove in from the ranch to the perdón Allie’s Electric co-op buildingin Johnson City to vote since his return from Asia on the previous ThursdayPresident Johnson had conducted a continuous dialogue with the press on Vietnam inflation white backlash and theachievements of the 89th Congress he had signed a multitude of bills into law and shuttled politicians diplomats andcabinet officers in and out of Texas with all of the precision of commuters catching the 8:05 he managed to make hisevery move felt in a majority of political constituencies in the country and all of this without making oneformal political speech or barnstorming tour as one prominent news analyst putit later all in all it was quite a performance by early evening the trendof the elections was clear the Republicans would score a gain of close to 47 seats in the house three in theSenate and pick up seven or eight governorships although there would be many theoriesabout the voting trend it was obvious that the American public had reverted to the historical rhythm that so oftendictates victory for the out party in the off year electionsmolest Frank if I didn’t tell you that I’m sorry we lost any American peoplehave a way I guess balancing things but we will have you recommendations we willbe breathing the members of Congress on them from time to time and I don’tanticipate that we’re going to have any great trouble sixty-five majority in thehouse 30 a majority in the Senate is a reasonable working majorityalthough he was anxious to get on with his operation it was obvious by Friday morning that the president would bespending the weekend at the ranch his first guest was ambassador at large Averell Harriman[Music] following the Manila conference which he had attended with the presidentambassador Herriman had made a flying tour of 11 Pacific areas and European countries at each stop he told the Headsof Government about the success of the exchange at Manila and he had encouraged each leader to make recommendations orsuggestions that they thought might lead to the conference table in Vietnam eachone of the countries wants to see peace a peaceful settlement on almost everycase they recognize the need to stop aggression the president said and I found it conserved everywhere that everycountry in the world was exception of the Red China and I know I want to see peace and that consensus of opinion thepressure world opinion I think as gives us a right to have some encouragement[Music] on Sunday morning the 13th the firstfamily attended church services in Fredericksburga full complement of reporters and newscameramen stood outside waiting and talking about the press conference that had been called for 10:15 at theFredericksburg Municipal Center most of them felt sure that the operation schedule had now been firmedup and that surgery would take place early in the coming week the only other question on their minds was where weplanned to go into Bethesda Naval Hospital that choose the afternoon spendthe afternoon evening there and will undergo surgery early Wednesday morningI have talked to the vice president and as you know from last October theagreement that was in existence between President Kennedy and myselfPresident Eisenhower Vice President Nixon will be in effect during thatperiod we will leave San Antonio tomorrow morning that mid-morning nineten o’clock we expect that we’ll be in the hospital for a few days and thenwe’ll be returning to Texas I am hopefully I can spend a good portion ofmy time on the budget between now and the first of the year in the State of the Union message and except forsometime in December when we have some previous engagements in Washington we’llspend a good deal of our time here wellwish you didn’t have to do it I feel fine think that the operationsare relatively minor you never want to go to a hospital for any reason pleasethat such as they are have good doctors hospital staff good people around me Ithink circumstance is about as well as it could be President Johnson enteredBethesda Naval Hospital just before 7 p.m. on the evening of November 15the serger was begun at 6:27 a.m. the following morning at 7:20 presssecretary bill moyers was able to call vice president Hubert Humphrey the dual operation had been successful and thepresident was already on the way to his room the throat polyp which had been removed 17 minutes after surgery hadbegun had already been pronounced benign by 734 President Johnson was consciousand responding to instructions from his doctors 20 minutes later he signaled for a pad and pencil and wrote tell mesomething tell me all that took placeby 8 o’clock the next morning President Johnson was up and about playing host to former president dwight d– eisenhowerthe two men talked for nearly an hour about the course of the war in vietnam and president johnson renewed hislong-standing wish that the former chief executive consider going on a goodwill mission to Asia and other parts of theworld during the coming spring [Music]after a long afternoon nap the president capped his second full day in the hospital with a surprise 32nd weddinganniversary party for lady Berg among the special guests were Vice President and mrs. Hubert Humphreyby Friday it was obvious to his doctors that the chief executive was well on the road to recovery despite the fact thathis voice was hardly above a whisper he had still managed to spend a number of his post-operative hours talking tocabinet officers agency heads and reporters about the barrage of work that still had to be done before the first ofthe year he’d also found time to say his special hellos to a small friend tolisten to a battery of television newscast throughout each day and talk wistfully about home and the benefits ofsome Texas sunshine just before noon on Friday the 19th thedoctors gave him his wish he was pronounced physically fit and able to travel by 1237 his Washington calendarhad been cleared through the rest of November and he was on his way home[Music][Music][Applause] [Music]Wednesday the 23rd despite some physical discomfort earlier in the week he acted as the solowelcoming committee at the LBJ Ranch for Secretary of State Dean Rusk Secretaryof Defense Robert McNamara presidential assistant Walter Rostovand John McCloy the United States representative to the NATO tripartite talks on the planned agenda werediscussions on Vietnam and an examination of the United States military and political posture in natanprior to the resumption of the trilateral talks with West Germany and Britain on the 28th of the month[Music]while President Johnson was still in conference with his first four guest of the day James Webb and a party ofseveral top officials from NASA along with astronauts Edwin Aldrin and James Lovell and their wives arrived from theHouston Space Center to accept the congratulations of the President on the completion of the Gemini program[Music]in ten Gemini flights the United States had acquired 1940 man-hours of paysetting flight experience ten times in a period of over 20 months two-man teamshad gone in orbit around the Earth each time they had been brought home safely the final flight which had begun on themorning of November 15th was the culmination of a team effort that stretched back to 1961 and directlyinvolved more than 25,000 people in government industry and university research centers the planet performanceof man and machine in Yemen has been a product of the American system and its best we are especially proud that ourprogram has been carried out openly millions of people around the world havewatched on television as the Titan rocket took the gym in the astronauts skyward the months ahead will not beeasy as we reach toward the moon but the Germany is the forerunner we willovercome the difficulties and we will achieve another success as a combinationto the day’s ceremonies astronauts Aldrin and Lovell made a presentation of their home an aerial view of the LBJRanch taken from 160 miles out in spaceon Friday November 25th with a restful Thanksgiving Day behind him President Johnson went back to work with avengeance to ease the pole in his mending side he took to the ranch runway for exercise and a day in the Sun[Music]at noon the President and mrs. Johnson and House Appropriations Committee Chairman George Bayonwelcomed an early contingent of legislative leaders to the first congressional bipartisan session to everbe held at the LBJ rank among thearrivals were hostage Rd leader Carl Albert House Majority Whip Bail Bonds and House Minority Leader Gerald pore[Music]with the arrival of vice president mrs. Humphrey Senate Majority Leader MikeMansfield and the president’s friendly adversary Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen the formal session was all butunder way [Music]although the leadership delved into the military and diplomatic situation in Vietnam and held a short generaldiscussion on the legislative outlook for the coming year the heart of the discussion concerned the budget over afive and a half year period the country’s economic growth have brought an abundance far beyond any record orany expectation but there were pressures which now burdened continued growthinflation was the cruelest and most capricious burden of all On January 19th1960 sector President Johnson had recommended a special program to take several billion dollars out of theeconomy through a series of revenue measures in March Congress had responded by enacting his proposals on September 8he had outlined a further program to fight inflation[Applause][Applause]more than any other state document the budget would translate rhetoric into reality assigning priorities and pricetags to the presidency one of the certain tags was the war in Vietnam as aconflict was already[Music]and so heading toward the new year and with relatively little room to maneuverPresident Johnson began making preparations to sustain the domestic goals[Music]
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