lbj blog

Thursday, November 30, 2006

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,933019,00.html

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Here is
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006987
an article on Hoover's secret files, documenting how LBJ and Bill Moyers used the files for to look for dirt on Goldwater staff, and other examples.
It was in the comments at Keiran Healy's site, to a post about Sam Alito's library card records. (we are today in the middle of the alito hearings.)
It's fully consistent with what I've been reading about Hoover.
Another snippet gleaned from the article - I hadn't realized Diris Kearns Goodwin was the wife of the Goodwin who was Kennedy and LBJ speechwriter.

This week I've been reading Jack Valenti on LBJ, although yesterday I set it down somewhere and haven't found it again yet.

Apparently I havent been keeping up this blog. During 2005 I've read about 20 books on Kennedy, as an outgrowth of my interest in LBJ.
This came from wondering about the 1960 election - if LBJ was so powerful, driven, corrupt, rich, etc., and reealy wanted to be president, what stopped him?
The answer it turns out is Joe Kennedy - more powerful, more driven, more corrupt,, more rich etc.

Saturday, February 19, 2005

kerry related to kennedy? how? - note on reading some haliburton rant.
http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?sourceid=00395996645644787198&btob=Y&endeca=1&isbn=1575661063&itm=7
the kennedy men - nellie bly. good wrap up of the more recent stuff. $6 paperback.
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/jfk.html
the kennedy scandal page
"JFK was pond scum." NEWSWEEK, August 19, 1996.
LECHERY

* JFK did Lee Radziwill, Jackie's sister when Jackie was in hospital with Caroline.
* JFK did Audrey Hepburn
* JFK did Jayne Mansfield for 3 years
* He also did Gene Tierney and Marlena Deitrich
* Other actresses tied to JFK in the press were Kim Novak, Janet Leigh and Rhonda Flemming.
* Angie Dickinson commenting on JFK’s brutal lovemaking style called it “the best 20 seconds of my life.”
* Jackie said JFK was a flop as a lover. She told a friend he "just goes too fast and falls asleep" as reported in the book GRACE AND POWER by Sally Smith.
* During WWII JFK was a security risk at the Pentagon for his well-known affair with Nazi spy Ingrid Arvad.
* In 1951 Kennedy had to pay off Alicia Purdom wife of a British actor half a million dollars after making her pregnant and then reneging on his promise to marry her.
* In 1956 Kennedy did Joan Lundberg who says he loved threesomes and was a voyeur. He paid for her abortion and slept with her in Jackie’s marriage bed.
* 90 minutes before the first televised debate with Nixon, JFK was with a call-girl. (Reeves p 202) He also had a call-girl inauguration night. The night before the inauguration, he cheated on his wife in their Georgetown house.
* JFK kept an apartment at the Carroll Arms in Washington where he met young women. After a year of marriage a friend said of Jackie, "Jackie was wandering around looking like a survivor of an airplane crash." (Reeves p 116)
* JFK did Mary Pinchot Meyer in about thirty White House visits from Jan '62 to Nov '63. She was mysteriously murdered in 1964 and her diary of their affair ended up at the CIA. Mary and JFK did drugs together.
* JFK did David Niven's wife.
* JFK did Pamela Turnure, 23, a Jackie look-a-like, hired as Jackie's press secretary, in an affair that went on three years in the White House.
* JFK did Fiddle and Faddle, Secret Service code names for 21 and 23 year old staff members hired mostly for sex. JFK tested dangerous drugs on them without their knowledge by putting drugs in their drinks.
* White House intern Marion "Mimi" Beardsley whose married name is Fahnestock was 19 when JFK raped her (statutory rape - the age of consent was 21 in DC at the time). A powerful older man preying on vulnerable young women is what sexual harassment is all about.
* JFK got shots of speed from Dr. Max Jacobson, a.k.a. Dr. Feelgood.
* JFK had a penchant for swimming nude with his female guests at wild pool parties.
* JFK & a British female tennis star had a lengthy relationship.
* BIGAMIST - JFK married socialite Durie Malcolm in Palm Springs in early 1947 and then a few days later had his friend Charles Spalding steal the marriage certificate from the Court House.
* JFK reportedly had an illegitimate child in the late 50s by prostitute Alicia Darr Clark who later tried to blackmail him.
* JFK did Judith Campbell Exner, mob moll, who had some twenty visits starting in May 1961. Exner carried cash bribes to JFK from California defense contractors. When she called JFK and told him that he had made her pregnant, he asked, "What are you going to do about it?" She had an abortion at a Chicago hospital in January 1963. She was never invited back to the White House. Her lover, mob boss Sam Giancana, bragged that he had 'placed' her with the President. Interestingly, both Giancana and another of her mob lovers, Roselli, were given the C.I.A. contract to kill Castro.
* JFK did Ellen Rometsch, an East German spy. When the Profumo affair (a sex scandal with a German spy) was blowing apart the British government, the Kennedys paid her off and had her deported. They abused both the FBI and Congress (by threatening Congressmen with information from their FBI files) to keep this liaison out of the press and the timing strongly suggests that the assassination of South Vietnam's Diem was used to divert press attention from JFK's connection to Rometsch. Kennedy also had had sex both in London and New York with prostitute Suzy Chang who was at the heart of the Profumo affair. Bobby had a hard time covering this up.
* When the Secret Service was asked by local officials in Seattle if Kennedy always had prostitutes brought to him, they answered, "We travel during the day, so this only happens at night." Truckloads of prostitutes were brought to the Whitehouse and admitted without security checks. When JFK inspected military bases, he expected to be supplied with women.
* JFK used Peter Lawford's home in Santa Monica for meeting women.
* JFK kept a large collection of photos of himself with naked women.
* When President, Kennedy blackmailed starlets into servicing him or have their careers destroyed.
* JFK suffered from permanent venereal disease because he had been re-infected so often. He infected his partners with a disease so serious that it causes 35 percent of all infertility in US women.
* Marilyn Monroe told a columnist that JFK would not indulge in foreplay because he lacked the time. They had a one-year affair. Bobby Kennedy also did her and she even aborted his baby which, if she told, would have destroyed his career. The day Monroe died, neighbors saw Robert F. Kennedy and "a man with a doctor's bag" together enter her house. Within four hours she was found dead. Monroe was killed with a barbiturate suppository, but a bottle of oral pills was left at the scene to make it look like a possible suicide. U.S. Attorney General Kennedy was never questioned about his role and his cousin actor Peter Lawford who "cleaned up" the murder scene never explained what happened to Marilyn's incriminating diary. The Kennedys were banned from the funeral.

The best source for Marilyn's murder is The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, NY:Pinnacle House 1974, by her former husband Robert F. Slatzer.

JFK is quoted by Traphes Bryant as saying to a friend, "I'm not through with a girl till I've had her three ways." (Reeves p 241)
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minor errors in the above, lots of it checks out.

# The book Why England Slept attributed to JFK was written by Blair Clark* and Arthur Krock. Harold Laski said of it "it is very immature, it has no structure, and dwells almost entirely on the surface of things."
# As a WWII commander of a patrol boat PT-109 off Western Australia, he managed through simply unbelievable incompetence to get it run over by a Japanese destroyer. He then fabricated a story. His men called him “Shafty” and complained he spent more time chasing women than Japanese.
# 1946 House of Representatives race, his father spent $300,000 on his campaign in violation of law. JFK reported to the Massachusetts Secretary of State that there were no campaign contributions or expenditures.

* who is blair clark?

Profiles in Courage was written by Sorenson and Davids.* JFK "served principally as an overseer or, more charitably, as a sponsor and editor, one whose final approval was as important for its publication as its birth." (Reeves p 127) JFK claimed unequivocally to be its author and its authorship was always a sore point with him. Joe Kennedy bought up copies to make it a best seller.** Although this book was not nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Joe Kennedy bought the prize for the book. (Reeves p
* disputed. who is Davids? ** disputed

1960 JFK stole the election which he had officially won by a mere 119,450 votes. Illinois State's Attorney Benjamin S. Adamowski charged on December 1 that the Chicago Democratic machine had stolen at least 100,000 votes. More than 10 percent of Chicagoans were left off polling lists, absentee ballots were not counted and there were many apparent erasures on the paper ballots. In Texas tens of thousands of ballots disappeared and The New York Herald Tribune reported that 100,000 votes tallied for Kennedy-Johnson never existed in the first place. They won Texas by 46,000 votes.
probably true but needs documentation

It is likely that General Dynamics blackmailed JFK to give them the TFX fighter contract (Boeing had the better plane), 6.5 billion dollars, the largest in history to that point, after bugging Exner's apartment
probably true.the bugging did happen.

In the 1960 election, JFK concealed his Addison's disease and even stated flatly to the press "I have never had Addison's disease." That was a lie, of course. LBJ said Kennedy looked like "a spavined hunchback." The records show that Kennedy took codeine, Demerol and methadone for pain; Ritalin, a stimulant; meprobamate and librium for anxiety; barbiturates for sleep; thyroid hormone; and injections of a blood derivative, gamma globulin, to combat infections. During the missile crisis, Kennedy was taking antispasmodics to control colitis; antibiotics for a urinary tract infection; and increased amounts of hydrocortisone and testosterone to control his adrenal insufficiency. For much of his life, Kennedy also suffered from severe and potentially dangerous bouts of diarrhea. Kennedy took anti-diarrheal drugs like Lomotil for relief
at least partly true.

# JFK used the FBI to his personal advantage and to silence press critics.
# ENEMIES LIST! Nixon was impeached primarily for misusing the IRS.[no] In early 1961 JFK planted family friend Carmine Bellino in the IRS with the title "special consultant to the president "and demanded that he have access to tax returns. They turned the IRS into a lending library. Quoting from the Wall Street Journal of January 28, 1997: "the Kennedys were far worse than Nixon in their manipulation of the IRS...The documents show that the Kennedys targeted non-exempt activist groups. And the auditing was done at the behest of politicians, not the professionals at the IRS...On December 20, 1961, Rogovin forwarded to Dean J. Barron, the IRS audit director at the time, a list of 18 organizations to investigate." Scores were targeted later including: Daughters of the American Revolution, the Americans Veterans Committee, the Conservative Society of America, Americans for Constitutional Government, All-American Society, the Conservatives, the Christian Crusade, Life-Line Foundation, Christian Echoes Ministry, the National Education Program of Harding College, the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, the Freeman Charitable Foundation, and the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade. Many of these groups had their tax-exempt status revoked. The Kennedys also targeted corporate taxpayers and at one point had a plan to target up to 10,000 groups.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10904694.htm
"This is serfdom on our own land," said Stanislaw Szala, a small-scale pig farmer and an outspoken critic of Smithfield.

Local critics have not been allowed inside the farm in Wieckowice, but activists - among them Robert Kennedy Jr., who as head of an environmental group called Riverkeepers has mounted a crusade against Smithfield - have scaled the fences at other Smithfield facilities in Poland and were dismayed by what they found.
Smithfield is suing Kennedy for slander in Polish courts.

Assassination Sale
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Dead Kennedys:
(possible book title)
JFJ JR: plane crash 7/(18)/1999
others in the plane:
wife caroline bessette kennedy
luren bessette, sister-in-law
heading for a wedding.
a wedding and three funerals.
piper saratoga II HP
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/397049.stm
married: rory (youngest rfk kid) 275 guests.
jfk jr: law graduate (harvard?) started "george" in 1995.
"john-john"

barr mcclellan - writes book on lbj killed jfk
texas lawyer, wife was mayor of austin, kids work for bush I whitehouse. scott mcclellan press secretary
Blood, Money and Power: How LBJ Killed JFK.
caro says its absurd.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/200903lbjjfk.html article

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=612494
and preferring above all to give her energies to giving her three children, Rose, Tatiana and John, as normal a childhood as she can

But what she did grow up with was a sense of civic duty. It is evident in some of the books she has written, notably The Right to Privacy in 1995, and her work on numerous public bodies. As chairwoman of the Kennedy Library Foundation, she created the annual Profile in Courage awards, given to anyone who has taken political risks for a cause they believe in.
Auction of Kennedy items tops $5.5 million

New York Daily News
Published Friday, February 18, 2005

NEW YORK - They paid a lot for a piece of Camelot.

Period furniture, artwork and bric-a-brac from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ five homes brought in $5.5 million yesterday after three days of feverish bidding.

The stunner on the last day of the Sotheby’s auction was the sale of a Chippendale-style secretary to a London gem dealer for $452,800 - 56 times original estimates.
Navy officials say retiring the Kennedy would save $1.2 billion over six years. The service also would be able to redirect $350 million now budgeted for a major overhaul of the Kennedy to cover the cost of repairs to other ships.
so this just happened?
this is from a google news search on kennedy

Thursday, February 17, 2005

joe kennedy II makes millions in nonprofit profits

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;2077919479;relcomp;1
here's an obscure article i found by accident.
it mentions that joe kennedy ii (bobby's oldest?) set up a non profit greem energy company in mass, that made millions for a few of its directors. that would be worth looking into a bit.

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her19.html

Saturday, November 13, 2004

http://www.ytedk.com/politics.htm

Monday, November 08, 2004

The great thing about america is

The great thing about america is any little boy can grow up to be president.
Of course, there are a few steps to take along the way.
Shaking hands until your hands bleed.
Sucking up to the men with power, and betraying them when they are old and helpless.
Buying votes, stealing votes, counting votes, knowing the score.
Bending lesser men to your will.
Embezzling millions.
Rides in small planes with poor safety records.
Reporters, watching, scribbling.
Choosing a wife for the size of her daddy's bankroll.
Ruining the reputation of your opponents, honorable men.
Sending men to die and to kill.
Looking for the next rung on the ladder, planning ahead.
Working twice as hard as the other guy.
Working the phones, pleading, begging, threatening, checking the polls, counting votes, giving orders.
Hiring a band, like pappy ferguson used to do.
Having more helicopters than the other guy.
Striking from a distance without being seen.
Bragging about it later.
Playing hardball, with the only bat and glove in town.
Not slowing down after your first heart attack.

Not every boy in america wants to do these things.
It's about willpower. The guy who gets tired first loses.
Me, I have some of that, but I've lost most of my elections and have no shot at president. What I can do is write about it.
LBJ had it. Joe Kennedy too, and in the collision course between these two men
hangs a tale.

outline

it occurred to me once .. i'm not sure how the check spelling icon works.. that one way i could structure this would be to have a 1 page version, a 10 page version, a 100 page version, and a 1000 page version. i could shoot for writing a first draft of the 100 pages this month. ha.