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Re: Happy Birthday Joey!!!!!!
Reply #5827 - Mar 4th, 2010 at 10:15am
" happy birthday Joey "
Thanks Ade ....... but it is not me birthday .
What .. ?! ... What am I reading right now ?! ..... Why it is none other that Lewis Sorley's " A Better War " ( THE Hot book amongst Iraq Strategists . )
What ... ?! ... !!!!!! ..... Oh , sure :
From Lewis Sorley's " A Better War " :
" Jack Albright was then an Army colonel in charge of the White House Communications Agency , a job he had held for three years and in which he saw a lot of Lyndon Johnson . In late August , 1968 , he was sent to Chicago to prepare for the Democratic National Convention . Among other things he supervised the installation of a forty - foot screen that could be lowered from the ceiling , a device intended to be used in screening a documentary tribute to Lyndon Johnson .
On the third day of the convention , Albright was in a hotel room with LBJ operatives Marvin Watson , Jim Jones , and Jake Jacobson . Watson took Albright with him into another room while he placed a call to LBJ , who was at his Texas Ranch . " As you know , " Watson told the President , with Albright listening in on an extension , " we made plans and provisions that there'd be a groundswell , and they would nominate you by acclamation , but we now see that this will not happen , and that is confirmed by those here with me . " LBJ had only one comment : " Those ungrateful son of a bitches ! "
" Then the President spoke to Albright : " You get your people out of there , no more than two through any airport . And do not let anybody know that you were there in preparation for my arrival . " Those preparations , said Albright , had included having the President's airplane and pilot , normally kept at Bergstrom Air Force Base , standing by at the ranch . The MUCH publicized March 31st , 1968 LBJ withdrawal , then , had been a ruse ( tactic ) , one the President never expected to have to make good on . Whatever Johnson hoped , his withdrawal freed him to move forward on a total bombing halt without regard to political consequences . "
LBJOEY !
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