Why Did Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Hate Each Other? 

I love those words. Your daddy sounded like an intelligent man. Both emotionally intelligent as well as mentally.

@@kmsleyang8972 yes he was!!!❤️❤️ he could also be very funny, in a good way lol he loved his kids, nieces and nephews, all kids!! He just knew how to make people laugh on any level😂😂 the world needs people like that!! Miss him everyday❤️❤️❤️

Johnson was like trump….another low life grifter who was a liar and prima Donna charlatan power hungry loser.

I had a history teacher in college that taught a class called "Current Events" but the only subject this professor talked about was Edward Kennedy. This professor said that his main purpose of his career of teaching was to see that Edward Kennedy never became president. Personally, I think that there should have been more hearing from people in Texas who knew Lyndon Johnson's behavior to let it be known of what Johnson's not so "straight forward" intentions really were like.

@@KellyBishop-rg3jx We all know or should know that LBJ was responsible for JFK’s assassination. Democrats haven’t changed one bit and many run as Republicans ✅.

That animal Johnson got his comeuppance

Implicating LBJ in Kennedy's assassination? That's just bogus. Listen to Rob Reiner's podcasts titled Who Killed JFK.

BS

Yeah. As quoted from a personal conversation with Roger Stone.

Yeah Nixon ..... That pinion of moral good 😝😒

Shocking..our government capable of executing their(our)own. Wake up..Hoover HATED the Kennedy family. The democrats orchestrated all of this.

Sounds like BS.

​@@danieleyre8913. You can say that it sounds like B.S. But Johnson was Under Investigation for MURDER when he was V. P. And the ONLY WAY TO MAKE IT GO AWAY WAS TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT, BECAUSE AS V.P. HE DIDN'T HAVE THAT POWER. READ SOME BOOKS AND LEARN ABOUT IT

That doesn’t explain his animosity manifested well before the assassination

​@@djpalindromewell I'm sure it didn't help.

And LBJ replied: So I can be President you snot nosed kid

So what

My Democrat mom wouldn't vote for him in. 68 because she thought he would start a different war

Not talking about K...talking about Johnson...nobody could evrrrr fig out what jfk saw inside Johnson either

@@pjj9491 it was to help him in the South and Texas

I’m an arch conservative or Libertarian and might donate to his son’s presidential campaign.

When Johnson was on plane with his right hand raised next to Jacqueline (on live transmission), I had a fleeting moment of intuition asking myself if that person with his hand on the bible could possibly be the one responsabile for Kennedy's death. This came to me without knowing anything at all about the animosity narrated here.

​@maryannbertini7611 Yes. Johnson was heavily involved more than most people can even imagine. I did an indepth research on the Kennedy assassination several hundred hours. And be assured Lyndon B. Johnson colluded to have Kennedy murdered. He was one evil devil.

I was only a little kid when JFK died but remember my mom saying years later that she thought LBJ was somehow involved with his death

I’ve always thought he was something to do with it.

He was right

Yes, nobody had more to gain by Kennedy's death than LBJ. Both Kennedy's. Plus, LBJ had been implicated in being involved in about 10 other murders by one of his own associates involved, including his own sister whom was, in LBJ's mind, tarnishing their name with her actions.

Was the gun made in Israel?

Probably similar generation here but, while not put as well, but that was my dad's theory as well

Your dad, like many others, was dead wrong. LBJ, and the secret service agent who jumped on him, thought he might be a target Oswald's first shot hit a traffic light near LBJ's car. It was partially blocking Oswald's view of JFK. Had he waited 1 or 2 seconds, he would have hit JFK with all 3 shots. It is verified by the Soviet embassy and Cuban consulate in Mexico City that Oswald had offered to kill JFK if they would admit him to Cuba. They didn't want to get involved and risk World War 3. He went ahead anyway. His trial would have been open and shut, had it not been for that fool Ruby.

@@geoffoconnor3487 In this case, pardon the platitude, but two wrongs didn't make a right.

Lots of people did LJB wisely didn’t run for president So Nixon won

LBJ was about to be in deep trouble over his shady business deals and may have been thrown off the 1964 JFK ticket. He was a desperate man and I agree with you.

Oh I heard there’s more to the story…, Kennedy’s death, LBJ & CIA…

I saw a documentary on TV which I have not seen since, but in the documentary they said LBJ once said 'You give me the Presidency , I'll give you the war'.

People can’t just take the truth that it doesn’t take that much to change history. It’s not that difficult to kill somebody. Especially in the US where everybody has access to firearms. All it takes is one desperate looser with a bit of planning and luck. There is probably no big conspiracy. Osswald being a lone perpetrator makes the most sense and fits all the facts best. That doesn’t mean off course there aren’t a ton of people that probably were quite happy about the death of JFK.

Your mother was lucky that LBJ did not get fresh with her. He was a notorious womanizer.

@@ricardo53100 I think LBJ considered her to be a mere servant judging by the way he treated her. She was a beautiful woman. I miss her.

LBJ was Senate Majority Leader at that time, and the 2nd most powerful man in government. He was a busy man.

@@jamesanthony5681 Yeah, being powerfully busy and kind is not a binary choice. A person can be both.

@@MarklovesAngels Yeah, they're not mutually exclusive, but this was a 'wave of the hand'. He didn't say anything nasty or dismissive, and how many busy people have done likewise? Can you honestly say you've never done the same or similar at any point in your life to someone that may have been offended?

Sadly that is politics for you. Quite often this sort of thing happens just so that the same sort of policy can later be passed and claimed credit for by the party that originally sabotaged it.

Absolutely. LBJ took Kennedy's plans for America, kept himself from being indicted in the Bobby Baker scandal and that was going on at the time of thevJFK Assassination

LBJ gotball the glory for passing the many billsvof Jihn Kennedy's

I miss the GOP of Eisenhower days.

​@@jonathans.bragdon5934Eisenhower is greatly underrated. He tried warning us about the MIC(deep state).

We lost that war fair and square

"One arm behind our back" meant atrocity after atrocity, even without including the evils the south vietnamese committed with our blessing.

Thats why i hate that POS!!

Sort of. The buildup began and happened during Kennedy's time, which of course LBJ escalated. I think the reason why JFK was killed was not only LBJ wanted to be president, the "military industrial complex" would support LBJ if he would start the actual conflict in Vietnam because Kennedy wanted to keep the peace and would not pull the trigger. The CIA is also somewhere in that mess as well. Once that assassination went down, LBJ felt like he could kill anybody he wanted...and he did including millions of Americans, both youth and the unborn.

Reported LBJ made huge money in defense stocks!!

AMEN! LBJ, his family, & his oilmen cronies got rich off of Vietnam - with their Bell Helicopter & General Dynamics' stock.

That's it?!?! GS?!

That and the perceived failure to deal with the urban riots.

I can think of more than 58,000 reasons to hate that SOB Johnson

@@larrywmedford6587 At least

To be fair most people look like a st compared to lbj😂

Nixon was a great President, regardless of what anyone thinks of his morals

Knowing what we know now about US politics Watergate was incredibly tame

@@chadwells7562 Nixon was Gandhi compared to Joe Biden, and obviously a much better POTUS.

spoken like a true Republican. LBJ who signed the civil rights acts is worse than corrupt nixon?

There's a recording of Bobby confronting LBJ with, "Why did you have my brother killed?"

I was wondering if that recording is still available and if so do you know how I could listen to it or watch it I'm from Melbourne Australia and am really interested in the Kennedys assassination thank you Sir ​@@daskommandantkrieger2503

Indeed, he was very courageous. Unlike Johnson who went on a tour of the west coast instead. Eventually working in admin in an australian air force base only after forced to do so to save his policitics career.

The arrogance

@@AB-lq1zdBut they still kept him on. He must have had something on them too.

also, a dedicated hot line was installed between RFK and Hoover. The first time RFK used it, Hoover's secretary intercepted the call (on Hoover's instruction). RFK reamed Hoover out and angrily demanded the hot phone be placed on Hoover's desk and only to be answered by Hoover.

@@patrickmiano7901 The something LBJ had on JFK was photos of JFK in 'compromising' situations with women. (How different than the mores of the Trump era when the president can frolic with pornstars and no-one bats an eye). JFK was reconsidering his choice of LBJ and when the LBJ camp got wind that JFK was thinking of dropping LBJ two men appeared before JFK with sheaves of these sexually compromised photos. LBJ stayed on and, in keeping with his character deficiencies, ushered in the darkest chapter of US history.

That is why Joseph Kennedy, securities manipulator, bootlegger, and adulterer, insisting that Bobby be appointed as Attorney General. He told JFK it was the only "demand" that he had. He wanted a family member between the President and the FBI director.

He truly was a bum.

Bit more than a backstabber, crook, drunk, sex addict and killer

Yeah

That’s a wild leap - your grandfather being out of an old picture, to that proving LBJ killed JFK. But then wild leaps are what drive conspiracy theories.

I agree

And very bright as well, from what I remember learning. Iirc the solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis was his idea?

Rfk was a miserable, mean little man. Johnson towered over him. No matter what rfk thought, Johnson was president while Bobby remained a little prick. He was just a mean person with low morals just like jfk and their sinful corrupt father.

We used to have to read "Profiles in Courage" in our schools.....👍

That was Johnson’s opinion of him, not of the video author.

He was trash

If JFK hadn't completely disobeyed SOPs re: engine running of PT109, he would never have put him and his men in that situation.

Yes ! This absolutely true ! 👍

There's audio of LBJ discussing the assassination at his library in Austin. It seems to me to support that theory. Plus, there's lots of other circumstantial evidence. It happened in Texas, LBJ had brought a judge along on the trip, etc. It would be nice if the government would release the rest of the files they were supposed to make public ten years ago.

@@jumperpoint The us gov was also part of the murder.

@@jumperpoint LBJ is just a vile guy to begin with, never forget the quote about him saying he'll have, and this is in his own words: "N*gg*r*s voting for the democrat party for the next 200 years."

So hard to believe how just ONE insignificant person can do something to change world wide events on that day. Sure might have had chat about if the worst happened and he was called to step up. I believe secrets from Government probably more of effort to protect President Kennedy personal reputation than hiding his assassination.

The Democrat party is the party of the slaveowners and KKK and other racism. LBJ was from the South whereas the Kennedys were working for blacks. Blacks were and are worse off with LBJ policies but would have been better off with the Kennedys. The Kennedys did a coup similar to what Trump did to the Republican party…

He did

Are you ok ?

I don’t believe that

And it appears that Bobby Kennedy may have whacked Marilyn Monroe, so there is that. Politics has always been a dirty business.

And congratulations on making on the FBI's happy list

I think the coffin being nailed was his approval rating due to Vietnam. It kept getting worse and worse until Johnson himself announced his exit from high political office Johnson’s political funeral in 1968 would be a RFK president elect, giving the service with Johnson still being warm

Wish RFK lived. Could’ve done a lot of good. Then Sirhan had to do him in.

Would have been a huge blow to LBJ and to Nixon. Both would have been defeated, on the world stage, by a Kennedy twice. EDIT: Just wanted to clear something up. By saying "huge blow to LBJ and Nixon" I wasn't trying to degrade them and endorse RFK. I was trying to say it would have been personally devastating to LBJ and Nixon as both men had desired the presidency for so long (in fact, it was Johnson's lifelong dream) and they'd already lost to a Kennedy.

@@resyndicated yeah. I mean imagine no Nixon? The country would be at a better state

@@resyndicated RFK would have had trouble getting the nomination. Most of the delegates back then were controlled by the Democrat Party, and they had the infamous Unit Rule. So, your wishful thinking is just that :wishful thinking.

“…keep your friends close but your enemies closer.” Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), The Godfather, Part II (1974)

@nickycatton7882 I lived through those times. RFK and JFK were well-mannered (for the most part!) Bostonians. LBJ was a loud, crude, rude Texan. (No offense, Texans, I love the Lone Star State and have family in Houston). Johnson and the Kennedys were like oil and water, as different as night and day, couldn't stand each other.😮

Johnson WAS everything vulgar, crude and conniving. There's no separating the squeal from the swine. Like Nixon, the Elder Bush, Clinton, the Bushlet, BHO, Trump and Biden--they ALL ran/or are running criminal enterprises from the Oval Office. Trying to find an honest politician is like trying to find a clean turd in the sewer--can't be done. Probably the last man not to leave the Presidency richer than when he assumed office was good old Democrat Harry Truman way back in 1952. And he declined to seek his party's nomination for a second term.

Our politics are clownish / senile / moronic at this point in history.

There wouldn’t be many riots. We all pretty much either know he was in on it, can prove with paperwork that he planned it or wouldn’t be surprised to learn he was part of it.

No defenders of Johnson left. Theyre dead. Nobody will be surprised. I was in 4th grade when LBJ became president. I knew he was a bad guy cuz my dad - a deep south racist democrat - adored him.

Hoover made himself "invisible" during and after JFK s dead.

@@Luileadolfo Yep.

Haha no one today cares about this part of history much less their own. No one is rioting over this.

And everyone forgets LBJ started the welfare program that enslaved poor people by forcing the fathers to leave the homes for the money to be given.

LBJ certainly ended the Democratic party as a party of white supremacy (cf the Dixiecrats) -- all the white supremacists went over the Republicans after LBJ passed all the civil rights legislation.

That's such an odd response to the not liking a president...did she ever say what appealed to her about the Republican party? Nixon wasn't any better....

@@crys313 Nixon was a saint compared to LBJ AND a much better President.

@@gordonspond - For all his faults, LBJ helped to pass into law more progressive legislation that continues to benefit millions of Americans today than any President since Franklin Roosevelt. That's the truth. I remember Nixon. I was in school when he was President and, notwithstanding his intelligence, had a drinking problem that sometimes impaired his judgment and did some shady stuff (e.g. having an enemies' list and using the IRS to persecute those he didn't like).

Not sure he was the orchestrator, but definitely in on it.

They’re a bunch of primadonnas trying to fight for power

Doesn’t make it any less entertaining, Disraeli vs Gladstone for example.

Today which side is more adversarial? Biden or Trump? Biden supporters or Trump supporters?

@@nandy1256 Biden doesn’t exactly have supporters, it’s more like Trump Haters against Trump Lovers and I’m honestly not sure if either side is more adversarial than the other but if I had to answer I would say Trump Supporters.

@@iamjohnfarlow Is it true Trump has cult followers who think they're able to discern clearly the right from wrong of others except for Trump?

Yeah he also openly used the n-word apparently.

Yes and LBJ was disrespectful to everyone around him. He was even more obnoxious when it came to the size of his penis. He was quick to show it to other men around him.

If I could upvote this more than once...

These are harsh facts, but not untrue. They are the unspoken truths of politics. JFK knew this just as well as Johnson did.

He's right about rubber heads. They love welfare and baby sex

i disagree. it was a friendly gesture to ask how he was after his brother died.

He had every reason. People forget that during Ike's presidency, Johnson was senate majority leader and arguably even more powerful than Ike himself. When Kennedy ran for president in 1960, the only reason he was selected was to get the increasing republican south in line, (Texas would've certainly gone to Nixon under any other running mate and Harry Byrd's third party candidacy would have been much stronger without his influence). The Vice President was and still is a largely ceremonial role, with its duties being delegated to it by the President. No such duties came for Lyndon, with Jack instead opting to seek advice from his family, especially Bobby who fulfilled many of the roles Johnson was supposed to. It was very tough for him to go from the 2nd most powerful man in the country, to some people forgetting he exists.

The story goes LBJ called Bobby (who yes at the White House destroying files ) to ask him about the oath of office.. RFK says he will look into it ..LBJ takes the oath ( which wasn’t necessary) then tells everyone it was RFKs idea …later on during the flight he calls JFK s mom( who also is RFKs mom) and sobs over the phone until lady bird grabs it away from him… whats so concerning about all of this is that this behavior was in 1963. I can only imagine how it is now in those circles of power

When LBJ and Lady Bird were invited to Bobby's home at Hickory Hill, Ethel and the rest of the Kennedy family made sure that the Johnsons were seated at the losers table. It was a small but significant move to demonstrate how the Kennedy family felt about the Johnsons, even calling them Rufus Cornpone (Lyndon) and his Little Pork Chop (Lady Bird) behind their backs. How nice!

@@jamesanthony5681 on both sides it wasn’t respectful or pleasant behind the scenes apparently, and that was many decades ago so imagine how it is now?

Absolute *NONSENSE* . LBJ was a political genius (yes, a GENIUS) who forged relationships with those southern politicians, unlike JFK, and that enabled him (LBJ) to get legislation passed.

uh no.....nice try rewriting history

@@415TCrider I didn't rewrite anything. That's what happened. Never said it was the cause, just a contributing factor.

The reason LBJ succeeded is that he knew all the dirt about the Representatives and Senators. He was also a master negotiator. JFK was a wimp, who caved to the Russians during the Berlin Wall incident, the Cuban missile crisis, and the summit at Vienna. The truth about Cuba is that Khruschev wanted our missiles out of Turkey, so he put missiles into Cuba until we agreed to remove them. To allow JFK to save face, the Russians removed their missiles first, and a few months later, we took ours out of Turkey.

I have to mainly agree with @415TCrider esp. with the "so much legislation" claim (and I'm unclear as to why the nation would feel "guilty" at JFK's death---sad to be sure, but why "guilt?") . While it is correct that JFK's death had some influnece, this concerns only two legislative provisions, really: the February 1964 tax cut and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of July in the same year, esp. as the assassination was still resonant at that time. (the offical morning period was 30 days). But the claim also understates LBJ's effectiveness here as those two pieces of legislation had been bottled up by Congress during JFK's tenure--so both were very difficult to pass (and JFK lacked the legislative skill of his Presidential sucessor). Republicans were against the Keynesian-oriented tax cut as fiscally irresponsible (Gee--where did those days go?) and Southern Dixiecrats in the Senate were of course very opposed to the Civil Rights bill--lauching a fillibuster to forstall it (with the aid of one Republican)--and still the case in light of the assassinated President It was LBJ's own legislative skill that got both passed, first by trimming the federal budget enough (getting it below $100 M) to get acceptance on the tax cut and taking a far more active leadership position on civil rights and using the moral bully pulpit and a sense of urgency compared to the more cautious JFK (including using the latter's death as a form of suasion to be sure)--incl. LBJ's ability to promote Republicans as "The Party of Lincoln" in uniting with Northern Democrats for the bill's passage. Yet LBJ's major legislative victories with the 89th Congress ("The Fabulous 89th"--from 1965 - 1967, with Democratic supermajorities in both House and Senate)--Voting Rights, Social Security Amendments, incl. Medicare and Medicaid, the Higher Ed., Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, immigration, the FOIA, creating HUD & the Dept, of Transportation, highway beautification, public works and urban development, etc., etc., etc.--are all LBJ's own and hardly owe to a nation still in morning for JFK, which by this point it wasn't.

It sounds like he depicted the worst of the DNC today.

I agree

Yet it was Kennedy's guy, McNamara who was the architect of the war. Don't believe the lies. Kennedy would have been all in on Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin

He didn’t

Not really, that would still be empty speculation that does not in any way conform with the established evidence.

damn hippies

why? was u racist and hated his civil right bill? did u hate poor people and hated his great society policies?

You ought to realize that if before the great society, many Americans lived in truly grinding poverty, far worse than modern poverty.

@@drunkslut2355 Vietnam?

@drunkslut Your user name helps me to understand your comment. You wouldn't get it, even if I wrote a response in crayon.

LBJ was positively the most war-mongering US president. There are released recordings of him ordering the war office to invent incidents so that Johnson could justify increasing the actions in Vietnam.

Nah. He didn't fear RFK at all. LBJ didn't seek a second term because, 1.Wife Lady Bird told him 4 years earlier, to resign in '68. Johnson listened to his wife; and 2. LBJ's work was done. He passed Civil Rights, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and 100 other bills. He got things DONE; and 3. Vietnam was dragging him down; however, had he run for a 2nd term and told the American people very early on that he was reversing course and pulling the troops out, that America had done its best to bring democracy to Vietnam, then he would have been re-elected. No question in my mind. Robert Kennedy accomplished nothing compared against LBJ. Why would Johnson fear him?

So true and I would add LBJ's enormous ego couldn't deal with losing.... especially to RFK

That is not true. First of all, even if Bobby had lived, he would not have received the Democratic nomination in 1968. At that time, only about 15% of the delegates were elected in primaries. The rest were chosen by party bosses, and LBJ was chief boss of the Democratic Party. He would have moved heaven and earth to prevent Kennedy's nomination. If LBJ had decided to go forward, he would have been nominated, and he would have given Nixon a run for his money in November, and might have won. The reason LBJ did not run is that he was not well, and he feared dying in office. Indeed, he died on January 22, 1973, which was only two days after the term of office would have concluded. He would have died sooner if he had endured the stress of the presidency for another term.

@@jamesanthony5681 Another factor to consider is that Bobby Kennedy was an opportunist. He did not enter the race until LBJ's poorer-than-expected finish in the New Hampshire primary, and Bobby smelled blood in the water. Bobby advocated withdrawal from Vietnam, but conveniently failed to mention that LBJ was merely following the policy that Bobby's brother, JFK, and JFK's advisers, had recommended in the first place.

Me too

And Vlogging through History!

@@Helloredtiger333 true

Please no

@@heretic117why not?

I was one of 50,000 boy scouts who saw him speak at the National Jamboree in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1963. His chopper landed by the stage in the huge amphitheater, half-a-dozen secret-service guys jumped out, and swept the audience with their rifles, the whole time LBJ spoke... "My fellow Americans, it makes me proud, blah-blah- blah "

I don't think he planned it, that was the CIA, but he knew about it and certainly approved of it.

Lots of whispers concerning that point of view. He was implicated in quite a few murders. He was very "fortunate" in that a lot of people (including some of his family) that had dirty info on Johnson ended up dead including a bloke that was shot five times and the verdict was suicide. Only in America mate.

He did it. If he wasn't VP, JFK wouldn't have been hit.

Exactly right. I'm sorry but anyone, literally anyone who forces people to listen to him while he's taking a friggin' dump with the door wide open is a nasty, vile individual.

No. This video didn’t have enough time to bring to light all of the misdeeds LBJ did. From the building of slums and making sure the black American family were just another example of his government. Look very deep into his dealings in the Vietnam war. Scary.

The Democratic Party is the natural home for the most evil politicians.

yeah, funny how JFK was assassinated in Texas...........?????

Making it up as you go eh?..

Yes, he was born in August 1908.

@@KOMET2006 Yeah coming back to this comment I was a little taken aback at that info. Perhaps the fact he only lived til like 1972 or so made me think he was much older. I did a similar thing with FDR aghast at his actual age vs my impressions of what I perceived his age to be.

100%

Really, Jim? How about the Civil Rights legislation that LBJ passed within *months* of becoming President, including the Voting Rights Act (1965), Medicare and Medicaid and 100 other pieces of legislation?

Don't forget killing JFK so he could have the big chair. @@jamesanthony5681

An ability to compromise is usually a good thing, even in creepy people.

@@jamesanthony5681 Yes, LBJ was significantly more progressive in civil rights than either of the Kennedys.

@@jamesanthony5681 It’s obviously great that he passed all that important legislation, but he didn’t do it because he was on some noble crusade, he did it for political reasons, so he shouldn’t be celebrated just because the VRA passed during his administration. Bobby was a great man, and LBJ was a racist a-hole.

Sorry, what's fascinating??

Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, JFK and Richard Nixon.

William Jennings Bryan: An Amazing American!

I don’t blame Bobby for not liking Lyndon. Did anybody like old Lyndon?

Nonsense. Where and when did RFK blame LBJ for his brother's death? And if so, then why did Bobby (and Teddy) keep quiet and not do anything about it?

@@judithryle2113 Read the 4 Caro books on LBJ and you'll get your answer. Think about this: If nobody liked 'old Lyndon', how was it that got all the Civil Rights legislation passed within *months* of becoming President, something JFK never accomplished in almost 3 years of President?

​@@jamesanthony5681what would u expect them to have done? Kill him? say it out loud in the press, killing was not possible, ranting in the press would just be detrimental to any future goals they had... You have to remember Johnson had become president and there was little much they could do..... Still RFK resigned as attorney General during Johnsons tenure and was going to run for president before the shooting that killed him - running for president was probably his way of fighting back (in his way showing Johnson that he could try as much as he wanted to put them down but they would still get back up) ... The Kennedy sons had more virtue (at least as far as murder went) compared to Johnson and maybe that was their undoing in those times.

​@@judithryle2113No he didn't. He knew they hated each other but Kennedy needed Johnson to win the election. Johnson hated Robert cuz he thought of him as a spoiled brat completely unqualified to be AG. And he was correct.

george washington

Do you realize how close the election was even when he picks Johnson to help carry the South ?

Nah jfk wouldn’t have won without him

Then JFK wouldn't have been President. The 1960 election was that close, and LBJ was an expert at stealing elections.

​@The_king567 he wouldn't the election of 1960 one of the closest elections

@@emmanuellawyer8562 it was rigged for jfk

you can't cherry-pick history.

@crazyralph6386 and what about all the good he did for Americans with civil rights? (civil rights acts of 64/68, voting rights act of 65, housing act and nominating Thurgood Marshall as the first black supreme court justice) Medicare and Medicaid? The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? Johnson certainly wasn't the best president ever (Vietnam, obviously and validly) but it's not that black and white, ironically enough.

Brilliant? How so? RFK organized the details of the Bay of Pigs invasion (Kennedy was clearly in over his head), and that idiotic plan resulted in the Soviets placing nuclear missiles in Cuba for the following reasons: 1. A deterrent against future invasions; and 2. To balance the placement of nuclear missiles around the world. USA had missiles in Turkey aimed at the USSR. The Kennedy bothers got the USA into that mess, and the world got lucky in Oct/62. Google the name Vasili Arkhipov. He's the reason you're alive today, and Arkhipov should have received 20 Nobel prizes. Watch the link below where David Brinkley talks about RFK and Bay of Pigs. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XRYwb48Exwo.html

I’m pretty sure RFK was the one who wanted to invade Cuba (which could have caused World War III) during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The so called cuban missile crisis was brought on by installing nukes on the russian border with Turkey! (Of coarse that little FACT was keep a secret for some time to the american public) Who ok'ed that??? Making russia look like the aggressor when really the u.s.was!

I reckon Nixon elicited dislike whereas, lbj elicited disdain.

Nixon had more integrity in his pinky nail, than LBJ had in his whole life....he was a 🐖 of a man. And started the overt misuse of power of the CIA and FBI...him Hoover and Dulles. Filth.

@@mikyl-fo8rh He was an egotistical narcissistic evil sob. Who had bi-polar according to his severe meltdowns and literally begging for something or even nothing anyone new about. He had no idea himself..but would cry and breakdown in front of others at any point in the WH

I wanna know how the LBJ and/or Nixon administrations reacted to RFK’s assassination. I’m not gonna throw a conspiracy theory out there saying they were involved but neither liked RFK so I’m sure they had mixed feelings when he died. How did they react and what responses did they consider?

@@meluckycharms111 'What responses did they consider'? W'hat are you asking, exactly?

They deserve Medals of Honor for that!

One can only hope😊

Nixon negotiated behind America's back (promised to get a better deal for S Vietnam's leaders) to keep their buddies there for five more years. Five more years of useless slaughter. Cognitive dissonance.

I suspect a lot of vets have peed on his grave through the years, and wish I had been with them......

Never.

So did lots of Americans

LBJ wasn't the only one that hated the Kennedys. All the Texas people were in that camp and my theory is that it was Bush Sr. connected with the CIA that orchestrated it for the benefit of LBJ.

And the other Irishman Tip O'Neill, who detested Carter, also. Carter would not even return his calls. Between Kennedy and O'Neill, they deep sixed Carter, in favor of the other Irishman, Reagan.

Nothing to tell.

@@jamesanthony5681 plenty to tell. Carter hated Kennedy forever, and the hatred was returned.

@@thehair1474 True. But that was a short lived beef, and Jimmy was just a one term President who went back to his peanut farm after Reagan beat him in '80.

@@jamesanthony5681 nope, lifelong hatred. Carter blamed Kennedy for his loss, as Kennedy ran against him in the primary, thus weakening him, so he thought. Carter was a dead duck through his OWN doing.

Joe Kennedy Sr. was a pretty unsavory guy so LBJ wasn't exactly wrong.

Well, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr was a horrible person. Appeasing the Nazis, antisemitism, all that stuff.

@@budwyzer77True, but LBJ was pretty much a scumbag himself.

It takes one to know one.

What is the political nemesis story of the present?

It's all political theater. They are all liars, thieves, crooks and criminals. They are all on the same team too.

The difference between LBJ and the Kennedy brothers was one (1) generation.

As I understand it RFK was a very moral man, what do you know about his immoral actions?

@@CheeseCrumbs00 He and brother Jack had affairs with Marilyn Monroe,

@@jamesanthony5681 I know that Jack did, but RFK was a family man by all accounts. He was never known to be involved with Monroe.

@@CheeseCrumbs00 Jack and Bobby both used her. Sad for her.