There was a show (actually 2) on PBS last night about Ol' Lyndon. In
the early days, his Senate? election was running very close, he was
losing by a bit, then miraculously a ballot box was found from South
Texas that put him over by 70? votes. But what I recall was his very
clear support for segregation, etc. and the Veetnam war (and Tonkin Gulf
resolution, which he and everyone else knew was el merde del toro) that
ended up killing, what, 50k Americans and countless Vietnamese, and
screwed this country up pretty good. He did come around on the civil
rights issue, which is A Good Thing, but he and others of his ilk were
rabid segregationists, racists, etc. going back a long ways. Ol' George
Wallace (D) was a major element of that, as was our own Ol' Strom
(father of Bessie Mae), the Dixiecrats.
Watching the part about him playing second fiddle to JFK got me
wondering about his... never mind.
BTW the PBS shows about the presidents are not too bad, as long as you
apply the PBS filter.
--FT (DISCLAIMER: I shook George Wallace's hand once, after his
political semi-reconstruction, and after his physical destruction. He
and his posse had to park their airplane next to our lab hangar at
Purdue to wait out tstorms, and go into the cafe to get a hamburger and
Coke, so my buddies and I walked across the ramp to the airplane to say
hi. Things were a lot easier then.)
On 8/11/16 10:10 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
Note that it was Democrats who supported slavery (Brooks, who issued the
beating, and his colleagues were all Democrats) and (eventually)
Republicans who supported civil rights and abolishing slavery. In
Orwellian fashion, the narrative has been re-written for political
advantage...
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Max
Charleston SC
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Actually I think that was a beating with a cane, by a great South
Carolinian, who nearly caused the death of the recipient, that crisis only
being averted when other scalawags pulled him away from the activity (and
one, gasp, pulled a pistol!). The rhetoric of today is tame compared to
what was regularly issued at the time. The recipient clearly deserved the
beating!
--FT
Oh yeah... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks
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