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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue May 24 23:08:25 2016, in response to Re: Who prefers Sanders to Hillary, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue May 24 22:24:44 2016. Did you know that LBJ was a democrat and so was the congress?The Congress was Democratic in name only. Congressional power was held by a coalition of conservative southern Democrats and conservative Republicans. This coalition maintained power since the 1944 election. What LBJ had as titular party head was long dossiers on everybody and the balls to use it. Johnson was the ranking Senate Democrat from 1953 to 1961 (during the Eisenhower administration). He did not use his dossier to hijack Eisenhower's agenda because real power resided in the White House. Johnson had enough sense not to try. The real power still resided in the White House, when Johnson was exiled into the Vice-Presidency. For all his balls and dossiers, he was seldom heard from. Johnson did not even have enough power to settle a territorial political dispute within the Texas Democratic Party. That was the reason for Kennedy's visit in November 1963 - to settle a political squabble that Johnson did not have the power to resolve. |
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