LBJ Library releases tapes proving his first election to the Senate was stolen

April 7, 2023 By Thomas Lifson

Kudos to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin for posting to the web copies of tapes that prove that Lyndon Baines Johnson stole his seat in the Senate when first running for it. Johnson went on to absolutely dominate the Senate as Majority Leader, and from there he managed to become president when JFK was assassinated in his home state of Texas while he was VP.

The stolen election was the Democrat primary, which back then was tantamount to election because Democrats dominated the segregated South of the era. Johnson defeated former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson by 87 votes, after a box of votes was “discovered.”   It is honorable of the Library, which after all is devoted to LBJ’s memory, to allow this blot on his record to be aired. They are more honest than the man whose presidency they commemorate. But the Associated Press, whose reporter made the tapes in 1977 and who wrote about them then, is less forthright in its article about the release.It does provide the basic information:..................To Read More.....