LBJ got the NYA position, at the age of 29, through the intervention of Alvin Wirtz, the lead attorney for Brown & Root and a noted fixer. Tumulty calls theirs an epic love story, an observation confirmed by the eyewitness accounts of many. This time the Iraq government contracted with the Houston firm to build a long oil pipeline, that would skirt Iranian bombs, running from Basra to Yanbu on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. It was an early lesson in the demented logic of Pentagon contracting: the bigger the cost-overruns, the juicier the profits. Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign Affairs | Miller Center We tend to date a modern shift to 1992, when Bill Clinton proposed a two-for-the-price-of-one presidency with Hillary. This coincided with the assassination of Diem (with American collusion) and subsequent chaos in the South Vietnamese government, administration and army. From his early days running the Texas branch of FDRs National Youth Administration, LBJ had set his eyes on landing a seat in the US senate. They began construction on the dam before getting any federal funds and before the feds had actually acquired the land from the state of Texas. This time his opponent was Coke Stevenson, rancher, bigot and anti-communist. Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight 9780812985849 | eBay Halliburton Deals Recall Vietnam-Era Controversy : NPR 1: Fourteen DaysIn her first-ever diary entry, recorded eight days after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Lady Bird presents a dramatic, cinematically detailed moment-by-moment account of those terrible hours in Dallas, and the days that follow. But in exchange, Halliburton executives agreed to let Brown and his colleagues run the new Brown & Root subsidiary as a quasi-independent arm of Halliburton. But like his other advisers, she bowed to the inevitability of saying yes and fully entered into the campaign. 5: CaliforniaRiots, uprisings and protests rock the country in the summer of 1966, and despite their progress with civil rights legislation, the Johnsons cant seem to move fast enough. Unlike her conflict-averse husband, she played the ruthless enforcer, conducting feuds and engineering firings.
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