Another undeserved military honor for LBJ
Washington Examiner,
by
Jamie McIntyre
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/10/2019 6:39:46 AM
When former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughters smashed champagne bottles against a metal star atop the bow of the ship named for him last month, the crowd roared, patriotic streamers shot skyward, and there were smiles all around. No one was churlish enough to mar the christening ceremony in Bath, Maine, by noting that in naming the futuristic-looking stealth destroyer for the 36th president, the Navy was honoring a part-time officer who spent decades wearing a decoration for valor that he knew full well he didn’t rate. For most of his political life, Johnson proudly displayed a Silver Star
Reply 1 - Posted by:
John C 5/10/2019 6:52:41 AM (No. 60251)
Pay wall.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/10/2019 7:04:01 AM (No. 60258)
Don’t know what the story is about but I never pass up a chance to bash LBJ. In the long run his Great Society probably did more lasting damage to the nation than his totally bungled handling of the Vietnam War. His body should be dug up, chained to the back of a Ford F-150 and drug through the streets so that dogs might relieve themselves on his worthless carcass......
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
poliposter 5/10/2019 7:17:31 AM (No. 60257)
You have posted at least two paywalls in two days, OP.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DaddyO 5/10/2019 7:33:53 AM (No. 60247)
After so many free articles they hide the story behind a pay wall. I was able to read it no problem.
Johnson, along with his dubious military history and the Great Society and Vietnam, had a history of organizing voter fraud in Texas. He has been accused of the murders of several people, not by kooks and conspiracy theorists but by the governor of Texas Allan Shivers. And many people believe he had a hand in the LBJ murder.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HPmatt 5/10/2019 7:34:21 AM (No. 60248)
Read Caro’s books on LBJ...soulless power-at-any-cost...reminds me of an antediluvian smart and effective ‘Do You Know Who I Am?’ John Kerry...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pluperfect 5/10/2019 7:44:19 AM (No. 60243)
A poster has no way of knowing which L-Dotter has exceeded the free article limi on any given newssite. If you regularly clear your cookies you won´t ever hit the free article limit. Or you can get around it with a different browser. I apologize to those who are unable to access the article.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
plomke 5/10/2019 8:12:29 AM (No. 60250)
Much like LBJ,this site has a double standard.
Most of us who would post an article behind a paywall,after multiple cautions(including one posted in Must Reads),would be banned.
Obviously,the Powers That Be have decided that we peons,peasants,Deplorables are simply not pluperfect enough to read such rarefied prose as to be found behind said paywalls.
May God forgive me,a mere Deplorable peon,for ever having soiled the rarefied atmosphere of this here saloon...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
StormCnter 5/10/2019 8:20:37 AM (No. 60252)
#8, if you email me, I will show you how to keep cookies cleared so you can always avoid the free article limit on any website except the Wall Street Journal.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/10/2019 8:51:50 AM (No. 60253)
It is still my opinion that LBJ had Kennedy assassinated. He certainly took us into the Vietnam War for his Military/Industrial Complex friends like McNamara. He sent young men to die in the rice fields so they had a laboratory to test new military weapons: guns that jammed in the mud, planes that only carried air to air missiles that couldn´t hit crap. He was a vile racists and bigot of the KKK/Jim Crow era Democrats.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
StormCnter 5/10/2019 9:15:59 AM (No. 60259)
My many-generationed Texas family has always held Lyndon Johnson in great contempt, but he was too smart to have plotted to kill John Kennedy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/10/2019 9:18:45 AM (No. 60256)
I couldn´t get in either but can´t resist a chance to comment on LBJ. LBJ represents a milestone on our path to abandoning the great experiment in individual liberty ranking him up there with Wilson and FDR.
And just what do you think he meant when he said we´ll have them......voting for us for two hundred years?
I think a full expose on this jerk and the damage to our country that he did and preordained is in order.
Ask a youngin today about Vietnam and if they associate that folly with a POTUS, it is Nixon, the guy who got us out.
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LBJ´s "War on Poverty" has cost tax payers 15 Trillion dollars... The poverty rate is virtually unchanged. Again, ZERO accountability for failed liberal idiocy.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/10/2019 10:08:04 AM (No. 60255)
It is ironic to me how extremely unpopular he was to the protester generation. He got us further into Vietnam, piling up the body count to fifty thousand Americans. (According to Wikipedia, sixteen thousand died during his administration). There wasn’t anyone in my crowd who had anything good to say about him. Fast forward fifty years: these same anti-war protesters are now lock-step into his same failed policies, entrenched in our government institutions, running this country into the ground.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/10/2019 10:21:23 AM (No. 60262)
LBJ was as close to the perfect democrat politician that we have ever seen. That is not a compliment. Hopefully we won´t see it again.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
toddh 5/10/2019 10:47:57 AM (No. 60244)
The Zumwalt class is in need of projectiles for its guns. The Navy wanted 32 Zumwalts, but cost overruns caused Congress to cut the order to 3. Yes, three. Each Zumwalt has two 155mm guns, so that´s six guns. Their intended round, the Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) would not be made in sufficient numbers to get the cost down, so Congress had another sticker shock and cancelled them.
Its VLS has fewer cells than a Burke, and its guns have nothing to shoot. Perhaps the Johnson *is* appropriately named.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/10/2019 11:17:15 AM (No. 60249)
LBJ, like several other congressmen, volunteered for the military, and served in the U.S. navy for 30-40 days. (operating from memory here.) he flew as a passenger on a Navy aircraft over a combat zone, once, and somehow earned a silver star for that remarkable act of bravery.
It was almost as heroic as shooting a 15 year old Vietnamese naked boy in the back.
FDR, about 40 days into the war, called all of those congress members back to D.C. and out of the military.
What rank did LBJ, with his teacher´s degree earn? Lt. Commander, which is the same as Major in the army.
Applying the LBJ standard for bravery, millions of silver stars should have been awarded.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Jim Whittaker 5/10/2019 12:17:48 PM (No. 60260)
"Landslide Lyndon" is the reason I am a proud Conservative Republican, and have been for 55
years. Before that, I was a JFK Democrat. In
1964 LBJ swore he would never, ever send American boys to fight "over there." He was re-elected, and in 1965 I was on my way to Vietnam. I blame Lee Harvey Oswald, as JFK was too smart to remain in that tar baby after
the ´64 election. Read "The Path to Power" to
see just how damned crooked LBJ really was.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 5/10/2019 12:58:44 PM (No. 60254)
LBJ was a crooked slimeball, top to bottom, front to back. Evil, disgusting man. He is a blot on the Presidency. It is fantastic that he only had one term.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RU4us 5/10/2019 1:02:20 PM (No. 60246)
Ah, but the clever grunts of VietNam gave him a much deserved military honor. The U.S. Army Installation Stockade in Long Binh, South Vietnam (some say the most deplorable and dangerous place in VN) was called LBJ.
I think the JetGork and I have an appointment regarding mr. Johnson and some of his crew.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Smart11344 5/10/2019 2:20:40 PM (No. 60261)
LBJ was a despicable man. Even he knew i when he made the surprise announcement he would not seek a second term. He would have been trounced.
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