Richard Daley was known to have influenced affairs in Washington due to his considerable clout as Democratic boss of the Cook County political machine. LBJ was his closest presidential ally, after th...
1963 President Lyndon Johnson appointed seven commissioners to investigate the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Included was Allen Dulles whom Kennedy FIRED from the CIA.
The story of Halliburton's ties to the White House dates back to the 1940s, when a Texas firm called Brown & Root constructed a massive dam project near Austin. The company's founders, Herman and Geo...
Johnson was a key member of the Suite 8F Group. The Suite 8F Group was a collection of right-wing political and businessmen. The name comes from the room in the Lamar Hotel in Houston where they hel...
Lyndon B. Johnson and Clark were close friends. Then Texas governor, he appointed Clark secretary of state in 1937. The following year Clark opened a private law practice with Everett Looney. He also...
In the 1960s Lyndon Johnson borrowed billions from the French Rothschilds so he wouldn't have to raise taxes to finance the Viet Nam war. Rothschild agent Charles de Gaulle demanded repayment in gold...
The report caused panic among many government officials. President Johnson supposedly "hit the roof" when he learned of it. Cables were sent to U.S. embassies throughout the world instructing them to...
At the direct request of President Lyndon Johnson Warren headed what became known as the Warren Commission to investigate the circumstances of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In miami, with disease eating away at him and him thinking he's six months away from death, E. Howard finally put pen to paper and started writing details of Kennedy's killing. E. Howard scribbled t...
In 1948, Lyndon Johnson ran for the Democratic nomination for one of Texas' seats in the US Senate. He won the primary by only 87 votes. His opponent convinced a federal judge to issue an order takin...
In 1965, Goldberg was persuaded by President Johnson to resign his seat on the court to replace the late Adlai Stevenson as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Goldberg accepted only after much ...
As head of the National Conservative Political ActionCommittee (NCPAC), Terry Dolan left a mark on history and specialized in the kind of"negative campaigning' that recently became a fashionable iss...
Cooper was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Byrd pointed out in his autobiography, I'm an Endangered Species: "Another goal was to reach a rapport with the politicians who ran things, especially at the seat of state government in Austin.... Sa...
