...LBJ told the world he was hangin' up his spurs, the lascivious old bastard.
I was tuned into POTUS08, XM radio 130, this morning when I heard his gravelly Texas drawl oozing out of my speakers mid-speech.
I remembered that in '68 Johnson had surprisingly announced that he was no longer in the running for re-election. It oocurred to me that this was probably the anniversary...why else would they be rebroadcasting one of his speeches? He would have had to have done it this time of year...
The speech was apparently 35 minutes long, so I guess I caught the last 20 minutes or so.
The announcement, at the very end, was jarring different from the tone of the rest of his speech. Much of what I heard was devoted to recapping history and progress in Vietnam. I enjoyed getting to hear most of it today, even though the whole time I kept thinking about the awful parallels with Iraq.
If only Bush had had such qualms in 2004, maybe we'd be out there by now. But no...he is not only ignorant, he's stubborn.
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Another anniversary this week - Friday will be 40 years since MLK was gunned down. That could be part of the reason for the recently released reports that he was a radical.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/04/01/mlk.final.crusade/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail
They even worked the word "crusade" into the title. Obama will be tested again - he'll have to defend every angry word from anyone whose skin is darker than Rush Limbaugh's.
"anyone whose skin is darker than Rush Limbaugh's"
Um...isn't that like 300 million in this country?
I wish it was like it was 40 years ago. LBJ could back out with a little over 7 months to go before the election? Maybe that's why Nixon won - they had to just go with VP HHH in a hurry. It sure beats the campaign crap we've been dealing with for over a year already and it's still not decided. The whole process should be reformed but it won't be because the politicians make a lot of money and the media has fodder to sell for years.
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