LBJ on the Emancipation Proclamation (1972) "Reel America" Preview

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[@brianarbenz7206]

During that speech, LBJ is said to have paused to pop a glycerin tablet because he was having chest pains. And six weeks later, the big one came.

[@grandadneal8114]

Hope he had a tissue handy.....he called it the big one did he?

[@emmapasqule2432]

It was payback for what he did to JFK. This man took down a sitting president so that he could put his hairy and shriviled butt in the seat of the oval office.

[@brianarbenz7206]

@@emmapasqule2432 There's no evidence of that. John Connolly was LBJ's best friend and closest political confidant. No way he would endanger him while he was in the path of bullets.

[@MarkHarrison733]

It's a shame he did not leave us on 2 July 1955.

[@brianarbenz7206]

@@MarkHarrison733 Politics is more complicated than LBJ being all bad. Would you want no Medicare, no Medicaid, no Civil Rights Act, no Voting Rights Act?

[@jeffw1267]

LBJ with long hair? Well, at least by his standards. And he looked like Bill Murray.

[@piotrmancini6824]

After retiring and until the end of his life, he had serious emotional problems reflected in his appearance (this is a common symptom). No doubt he was carrying a lot of guilt, which is a corrosive venom.

[@reneebru1]

He was addicted to drugs, alcohol, affairs and bouts of depression.

[@VideoAmericanStyle]

Bill Murray could totally play him in a biopic.

[@fruff30]

@@VideoAmericanStyle He probably wouldn't want to though, Bill Murray is way to likable to play a villan.

[@tarasbulba3190]

@@piotrmancini6824 Wayyyyy before his retirement!

[@scott6504]

Presidency always makes men age. You can look at any president and see how much they age. It's a great burden.

[@scott6504]

@James Henderson That didn't help.

[@MsJoose59]

Especially when you’re a racist bigot. I have no clue why black people think LBJ was a good guy. He wasn’t he was a racist douche.

[@jhyquaviousshavers8302]

Most presidents only act racist to get people to vote for them but idk

[@rajeshwarshukla5528]

Nobody asked LBJ to be President. He himself wanted the job.

[@clayoliver4046]

LBJ was dead about a month later

[@phil1pd]

I didn't know he was only 64 when he died. He looked 20 years older than his age.

[@albertopalma1663]

He was a heavy drinker. Alcohol has ways to age drinkers.

[@john1198]

Jfk guilt was drowned with alchol

[@daryllndemmayah4874]

The tradegy of Vietnam weighed on his conciseness and took a tool in his mind and spirit

[@jordanastro4694]

He had arguably the most stressful job in the world, being a president. It ages most, just look at Obama.

[@ironroad18]

He drank and smoke heavy, had a heart attack in his 50s.

[@weskitten]

Dec 12, 1972. LBJ had 1 month to live.

[@95garyl]

weskitten one month too long!

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

@James Henderson what happened that day?

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

41 days to be exact. January 22, 1973. Almost 6 weeks.

[@SmellyUnfortunate007]

@@dallasbrubaker6054 Sorry to be late but it was when he had a near-fatal heart attack. Just type in the date and put LBJ along with it in your search engine.

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

@@SmellyUnfortunate007 I remember when he had a massive heart attack. I didn't know the exact date.

[@frisco21]

Were it not for Vietnam, LBJ would today be counted among the great presidents of the USA.

[@juanchiroca-paisley4390]

A big if. Not only because Vietnam tarnished and outweighed the good things he did, but because the funds required by Vietnam were siphoned off from The Great Society and it never reached its full potential. Let’s learn from that, and keep on going big when the challenge calls for it.

[@frisco21]

@@juanchiroca-paisley4390 ...what strikes me about Johnson was that a _Southern_ politician who honed his public service skills during the height of the Jim Crow era had such progressives ideas about social justice in general, and racial equality in particular. This is really remarkable, when you think about it. To say that Johnson repudiated the iron-clad rules of his class would be a mammoth understatement. Respect to this man.

[@johntack1049]

Y’all have great admiration for a guy that micromanaged the war in Vietnam in a vacuum, cost the lives of 50k US, sold out our pilots during bombing raids in the north and murdered his way to the top. Ask yourselves who Mac Wallace was and how did LBJ know him.

[@AaronDanieltenni]

Oh yes, a great President who worked with criminals and possibly murdered ONE of our GREAT President’s. So well said. 😆

[@frisco21]

@@AaronDanieltenni ...Oh great. A conspiracy nutjob has joined the conversation with troll-worthy commentary. Lovely.

[@adibnassery7551]

If it wasn't for Vietnam war he would be regarded as one of the greatest Presidents in history.

[@markharrison2544]

No.

[@_dave4460]

you are suffering quite the dillusion

[@albertopalma1663]

This is delusional and ludicrous. A criminal became a president and (according to you) that makes him one of the greatest presidents? I don't know what kind of world you're living in but think about this: Who benefitted after the assassination of JFK? The Gulf of Tonkin Incident that cost the loss of more than 58,000 US soldiers in a needless war, countless of US soldiers that came back disabled either physically or mentally (disturbed) by the effects of this war, more than 2M civilian Vietnamese that had nothing to do with the ambitions of political powers not only US powers but France as well, and who knows how many Vietnamese soldiers who were fighting for their country. There is not a single town in the US that had not been affected by the Vietnam War and he had to go along with it following the orders of the military industrial complex. The list goes on and on.

[@markhunter2602]

U don't know that in order to become President Himself he had to KILL his Boss and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy so that's WHY TODAY he BURNS in the DEEPEST CRUEL HELL there is Him and ALL who took Part!!

[@optimisticoutreach1236]

He was a POS and is burning in hell as we speak...

[@wayneedward7391]

If I'm not mistaken he was a school teacher in South Texas as a young man

[@daryllndemmayah4874]

Wayne Edward yep and also served in the Navy reserve as an officer

[@ironroad18]

He taught poor latino kids. He always had a soft spot for the poor and outcasts. He grew up a dirt farmer and his family suffered during the depression. Politics was his way out of poverty.

[@ironroad18]

@@daryllndemmayah4874 he won a medal for participating as an observer on in a bombing raid in the Pacific. He spent a few months touring facilities and reporting on US troop conditions in the Pacific. Then went back to Washington.

[@ironroad18]

@James Henderson nice try Russian troll bot

[@masonharris2557]

Wayne Edward he taught for less than a year. He might’ve had a soft spot in his heart, but his policies didn’t help poverty go down.

[@graybaby1962]

I will say this basically what hurt LBJ was the Vietnam War. He fought diligently for civil rights. He signed bills for voters rights. He started the Great Society. But unfortunately the war stood in the way of progress.

[@jshepard152]

Ah yes, the war on poverty. Trillions spent and more poverty now than ever.

[@talawoods25]

@@jshepard152 EXACTLY his "bills" didn't help black people. They made us dependent on government. Therefore buying votes with food stamps and welfare while simultaneously looking up black men/stripping fathers from homes. This wasn't about "helping" this was about getting more votes....even if they were black. He said himself he would "have them n!gge£$ voting democrat for the next 200 years". What a low down motive, just to give someone the right they should've had all along.

[@jamespfitz]

He was most certainly NOT for civil rights. See the 1958 Voting Rights Act.

[@loganmartin6534]

He sent the MARSHAL ISLANDERS back to the BIKINI ISLANDS and had them with INJECTED with RADIATION .

[@dgtzmusic9352]

I know who could play him in a movie. Kurt Russell. UNCANNY, sort of.

[@KOMET2006]

Bryan Cranston played President Johnson in a TV movie a few years ago. He looked strikingly like Lyndon Baines Johnson! (Whoever did his makeup, did it amazingly well.)

[@RoseSharon7777]

Hard to believe he was in his 60s. Looks 80.

[@divadivad9164]

No stumbling, mumbling, "C'mon Man!", whispering "I did that", "No joke man", "end of quote...repeat the line" etc. etc. etc...

[@clayoliver4046]

LBJ died a month later Jan 1973

[@karmad4491]

LBJ said on Memorial Day of 1963, he "could not have known what lay ahead," referring to JFK's assassination. Yeah, right. The same guy who ducked before the first shots were fired.

[@AaronDanieltenni]

It’s funny how every single comment does not know of his criminal ties.

[@terwaantherouanne5919]

yawn

[@jasonrowe344]

Republicans pull out all stops to keep people from voting in 2020. That is not how you perfect your democracy. The more I listen to LBJ the more I like him.

[@jasonrowe344]

Trepang 412 look at Georgia closing down polling stations in predominantly black areas that is an effective way to stop the vote. That is just for starters.

[@justinkerrigan5863]

Enjoy the grass sheep

[@jasonrowe344]

@@justinkerrigan5863 drink the koolaid cultist. You people have no critical thinking skills. You are a loser.

[@IKONIKx1]

Wrong. Just register, show up with I.D. 🗳 vote

[@maxB2262]

@Trepang 412 by having one drop box per county that’s ridiculous for large districts

[@clarkgriswold5903]

"Once I got those niggas in my pockets I got em' forever"

[@MultiKimberlyb]

Yep he said it. In other words let’s throw money at the n*****s and they will vote demonkkkrat for 200 yrs! And he was right! Ignorance is for sale smdh

[@emperorpalpatine2531]

If LBJ was in the same age as he was in the 50/60s and ran for president, he would have won

[@amrbasha]

What

[@therevolvingmonk]

LBJ ran for the Democrat nomination in 1960 but was beat by JFK who then named him as his running mate.

[@rindenver1194]

@@therevolvingmonk LBJ didn’t officially enter the race for the nomination until three days before the 1960 convention started.

[@thematt523]

He did win. He won one of the biggest landslides in American history.

[@MarkHarrison733]

Johnson was unelectable by 1968.

[@wayneedward7391]

Yep Vietnam without that he would be regarded as one of the greatest ever um I still think he was very good!! Because Kennedy started the civil Rights act he said it probably wouldn't be achieved is his presidency or his lifetime but yet Johnson acheived in what maybe a year or little over a year I'm sure part of that the country was still in shock of Kennedy death and was more willing to get things done but still I don't think no one else could have done that in that short amount of time!!

[@wayneedward7391]

@James Henderson really?A racist has a black cook and eats the food that black hand prepared I don't think so

[@gurmukhsinghbansal479]

Lbj was scum. Got jfk killed look it up

[@Joe-og6br]

@James Henderson so he made racist remarks. He did more for Civil Rights than any President since Lincoln.

[@dvderek]

@@gurmukhsinghbansal479 LBJ is a goat 🇺🇸

[@jamespfitz]

@@Joe-og6br You know nothing of history.

[@tommclaughlin4741]

LBJ was a great President, I only wish more people could see these great documentaries, there's so much to learn thank so much for putting them on.

[@smigletat9634]

That’s just scratching the surface.. Congratulations! You are def. gonna love what lies beneath..Dig a little deeper with D’Souza.. You will find Real Truth☺️

[@Hotrodford]

LBJ was a racist. When the civil rights act was passed he said we’ll have them ni**ers voting democrat for the next hundred years. It’s the same today it’s all about remaining in power and votes for the democrats. They don’t care how many lies they have to tell either. Their tactics have always been to divide and conquer by using race for every problem in this country and now racism is used to blame even the smallest thing that happens. I can’t believe that the vast number of democratic voters can’t see it, or maybe they just don’t want to see it because then they would have to admit their mistake of supporting the wrong party and apparently by what we see going on today is they would rather destroy this republic than to admit they are wrong.

[@geiadude]

Wisdom Address's Many mistakes of our lives To see that truth Thru those dimming eyes. It gives compassion through out all his doubt's A very sense of Forgiveness to a wonderful man

[@fathergabrielstokes4706]

Wish LBJ lived longer

[@baboushko]

wish JFK lived more longer

[@wootzor1417]

Wished James Garfield lived longer

[@UnitedStates17]

wish Lincoln, LBJ, FDR, and JFK lived longer.

[@jonalderson5571]

@@baboushko JFK's death was an incredible gift to the country. LBJ was far better and got way more done

[@erikriza7165]

in his earlier days, LBJ would have vetoed the Emancipation Proclamation if he could have.

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

That's called personal growth and character growth. Until 30 years ago most all Democrats were against gay rights. Until 15 years ago most Democrats were against transgender rights. 25 years ago most Democrats gave Bill Clinton a total pass on being a serial womanizer, sexual harasser and possible rapist. The difference between LBJ and the Democrats I speak of is that they have managed to evolve and develop the wisdom to recognize the flaws and injustices they once supported and change their views. It's the difference between people that put progress and the good of society ahead of their own personal prejudices or even in some cases their political career and those who pander to the voter base that got them elected so that they can remain power and the country and society be damned so long as they get to continue to be an elected politician.

[@MinisterRedPill]

Ha, he was still a racist even when he signed the Civil rights act.

[@haroldarmstrong8285]

Personally, I believe a VP who had been given little to do by the sitting President ensured he would get his needed attention by having the sitting President taken out.

[@budmcneely1571]

lbj was a liberal southern poltician that kennedy had to unite with in order to get the southern vote. lbj was a very good man, look it up.

[@tarasbulba3190]

@@budmcneely1571 Are you stupid??? He got us into Vietnam. If he wasn't trying to f@#k you or blackmail you, he was trying to kill you. LOOK IT UP!!!

[@rindenver1194]

@@tarasbulba3190 You are the stupid one. Why don’t you study some legitimate history of the period!

[@mangokane11]

@@rindenver1194 conversations have deteriorated so badly. I will make statement that I hope we will try to understanding instead of judge...here it goes JFK was our last REAL president! That's it. Have a good day.

[@johntack1049]

LBJ and Mac Wallace had JFK killed. Murdered his way to the top.

[@robmoir7524]

This country went downhill when kennedy died l b j was one of the worst presidents ever Vietnam piss on that war

[@BazookaToe]

This entire speech is Kryptonite to Conservatives.

[@RichardMNixon-zh6uz]

Yeah...in your mind it is.

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

@@RichardMNixon-zh6uz no it's a plan fact! Conservatives are doing everything in their power to make sure as few people vote as possible and that it is as difficult to vote as possible. They are standing foursquare against everything LBJ is advocating for in this speech and have done everything in their power to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, The Civil Rights Act and all aspects of The Great Society. To say otherwise is to be completely ignorant of both history and current events or to be in complete denial about both. The entire reason all of the South went from being Democrat to Republican is because they were so damn mad that LBJ pushed through The Voting Rights Act and The Civil Rights act and southern conservative politicians have spent the last 60 years to do everything in their power to fight against and dismantle both.

[@RichardMNixon-zh6uz]

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 OK, Karen. Read like the mirror image of the religious right.

[@amyjoyce2301]

You haven't an inkling what it really means to be conservative, just know the smears Democrats have made in order to divide America.

[@jamespfitz]

This man was a criminal racist then, and history has done nothing to diminsh his criminal acts or venality.

[@UnitedStates17]

Thank god we had LBJ. What other presidents would be able to persuade the South to vote for the Civil Rights bill?

[@thematt523]

They didn’t.

[@lawsonj39]

@@thematt523 Oh, yes they did--enough of them, at least. Of course, in those days there were liberal Republicans, too, hard as that is to believe now.

[@slappyabromowitz]

@@lawsonj39 when the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and lone Republican John Tower of Texas, led by Richard Russell, launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.[23] Russell proclaimed, "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would tend to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our [Southern] states."[24] he didn’t get the south to vote in favor

[@tarasbulba3190]

🥴

[@jamespfitz]

WRONG! You now nothing of history.

[@Studdblog]

One of the 20th centuries great men.

[@johntack1049]

The guy murdered his way to the top. You’re a fool.

[@mike_404]

@@johntack1049 Kennedy didn’t do shit. LBJ was an amazing president

[@johntack1049]

@@mike_404 lol. Who’s Mac Wallace?

[@jamespfitz]

I'm sorry, did you live in the 20th Century? He was so reviled he didn't even run for re-election.

[@bruceglover7971]

@@jamespfitz LBJ idolized FDR . he thought Vietnam would be his opportunity, he was wrong , he was an animal , wicked evil man , but he was at least good at it

[@kevinbrooks1104]

Mr Johnson was a teacher teaching Mexicans how to speak so that when they came to America they would be armed with the English language to succeed in America.

[@michaelmcdonald8452]

In what way is the thumbnail connected to this video?

[@AlekWheeler]

Wow...just a month before his death. What a sad end to a bold president.

[@TheDudeAbides1998]

He's still a racist POS.

[@piotrmancini6824]

"He's still a racist POS." ================== Emperor: Do Blacks know that the racist one is the Democratic party? Do Latinos? Do Jews? Blacks are extremely grateful to LBJ (who nonetheless was involved in the murder of his predecessor, had little choice). Are you saying that Blacks and all minorities are manipulated sheep? That you know what is best for us? Are you sure that is the best strategy to attract our vote?

[@TheDudeAbides1998]

YUP! Before his BS welfare and feminsim, things were much better off! Lets not forget the BS lies about history, that democrats teach! They know you. Go from chains (slavery), segregation, now mental enslavement. LBJ knew you all too well. And he's laughing.

[@shamusmercieca8394]

AlekWheeler he died 1973not month after

[@jeffertonalive8536]

It is Bold to Kill The President and Usurp The Throne

[@loganmartin6534]

THANKS TO LBJ whether your WHITE BLACK OR BROWN. (WE ALL) have A RIGHT to VOTE for our CORUPT POLITICIANS.😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mannyp8055]

I like this guy. bless his soul

[@118Columbus]

“I do certainly mean to include more of OUR black people.” LBJ still thinks he OWNS those black people!

[@dvderek]

Saying “our people” is a common expression lol. That statement is more positive and inclusive than if he left out “our”

[@lawsonj39]

Way to miss the point. Clearly you're just looking for any excuse to kick dirt on the man.

[@champfisk5613]

@@lawsonj39 yeah he is quite the punk for that stupid ass statement

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

I guess the one area of progress we've found in racism (and homophobia) is that at least racists and homophobes are now embarrassed enough to either try to justify their beliefs, hide their beliefs, lie about their beliefs or insist that the other side is just as racist and homophobic as they are. It's sad nasty kind of progress but at least it's progress.

[@jshepard152]

Don't care what Johnson said about anything. Nearly zero respect for that man.

[@118Columbus]

LBJ killed JFK. Pass it on.

[@champfisk5613]

Because he supported Black people? What a dick move of you.

[@oceanbluesmalls]

@@118Columbus Yah sure he did Jan now show us the proof?

[@oldblackstock2499]

The Emancipation proclamation didn't free slaves. Research it. Too much to write here. The 13th Amendment did. And, we are not a democracy, we are a constitutional republic. The Emancipation proclamation speech was nothing more than carefully worded poppycock. Fortunately it was short.

[@mitchellima4736]

Sorta. The offial ending if slavery was the 13th amendment yes, but the emancipation proclamation essentially told everyone, both union and confederates, that at the end of this war the slaves would be free. It was a speach that defined the civil war in many aspects, and refocused and energized the union as a whole, as it made sure the war had a larger point.

[@rindenver1194]

The Emancipation did actually free the slaves in the 11 rebellious states in the Confederacy.

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

@@rindenver1194 that only happened because the North won the war in the end. When the EP was issued in Jan of 1863 that was far from being a sure thing. As late as August of 1864 Lincoln was sure he was going to lose the election to the Democrats who were running on a negotiated peace platform. In port of fact the EP had one primary goal, which was to keep England and France from extending diplomatic recognition to the CSA by couching the goals of the war as a crusade to end slavery. From first to last most of the fighting men in the Union army did not fight to free slaves and most of the fighting men in the southern army didn't fight to keep them. But by formally making ending slavery a part of the war goals of the USA it made it explicit that to support the Confederate States was to condone and support slavery which was an intolerable position for the British and French governments. Most people don't have the foggiest idea about the complexity of the politics that led up to the Civil War and that took place during and after the war. Most people have never heard of the Nullification Crisis of 1832 which brought South Carolina to the brink of succession not over slavery but over import tariffs. Most people have no clue that the New England area states contemplated succeeding during the War of 1812 because they were so opposed to that war and the disruption it was causing to their trade. People have to have things in the simplest terms possible, and they have to couch things in a way such that they support the side of an argument that is right and that they back the positions that were held by "the good guys." It is positively laughable that the modern Republican Party tries to claim credit for policies of Lincoln and the Radical Republicans of his era in a vain attempt to claim they aren't racist and don't support racist policies. It's complete nonsense and only works because people are so god damned pig ignorant about history. Not to mention how willing most people are to embrace and believe in the most ridiculous BS conspiracy garbage imaginable. Anything to avoid the truth and hide in delusion I guess...

[@Mairo4111]

He moved a nation when we had no voice lost by deaths of RFK and MLK. He was a patriot and helped defend our nation from communist influence. RIP.

[@timhazelwood8063]

Mark Marquez LOL. Learn your history, Marquez. This shister pulled off one of the biggest criminal acts in American history when he helped to orchestrate the Kennedy assassination. I’m amused at his little comment here about how he didn’t know what lay ahead for him. Hogwash. He knew exactly what was going on. This man was one of the most vulgar and vile men to ever occupy the Oval Office. He MIGHT have been surpassed by Slick Willie or B Hussein O.

[@kevinw9073]

JFK Only picked LBJ because he needed Texas. The Kennedy's couldn't stand LBJ. Bobby fought to end the dumb ass war in Vietnam and hated Johnson as much as LBJ hated him. Nearly 60,000 soldiers died for what? Another undeclared war. LBJ broke the bank with his so called "Great Society." You cant have both "guns and butter" as he surely proved.

[@alexdavis4406]

A true American patriot and civil rights champion. LBJ

[@alexdavis4406]

his talents were in domestic policy I would have to agree that Vietnam was a complete failure but Johnson was an exceptional domestic president.

[@earlsciambrajr.841]

+alex davis LBJ was a traitor and he was the same man as actor William Holden and John Connaley. facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203073745862218&set=a.10203371527546574.1073741842.1162985828&type=3&theater The JFK assassination was a big fat hoax. JFK is the same man as Jimmy Carter & Rosalyn is Jackie Kennedy. facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204026351436762&set=a.10203371527546574.1073741842.1162985828&type=3&theater This is true because ear biometrics proves this. Wake up from the Matrix

[@billgish3424]

Bullf'ngshit. LBJ had JFK murdered

[@billgish3424]

Are you really that stupid?

[@robertorangassamy5498]

A murderer, crook, schizophrenic, megalomaniac, corrupt, disgusting pig!

[@fnq-8890]

Was he was sporting a mini-mullet back then .. Good Ol Boy.

[@vincentbugalia3858]

It is said he went completely insane over his role in the death of JFK, and that is why his family releases nothing of his final years at the ranch. The most horrible man to ever sit in the Oval Office.

[@_dave4460]

we have a much stronger candidate for that distinction in there now

[@reneebru1]

He was a REAL racist. I’m reading a book about him now. What a horrible man. He would do ANYTHING for power...some things don’t change.

[@curranfrank2854]

Yet he was instrumental in passing the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Act. He was undeniably racist, but very few non racists can say that they did as much as LBJ did for racial equality.

[@reneebru1]

And look at the Democrats TODAY...they’re still race baiters.

[@champfisk5613]

You're real Noble you weirdo

[@andrewbrand200]

When I saw the title, I thought this video will be talking about Lebron James and Black Lives Matter. Then I saw the year, and I realized that I was wrong.

[@roxannemoser]

🤦🏻‍♀️

[@honestone490]

LBJ is the greatest Civil Rights President that ever lived

[@dannycorsaro546]

Piece of 💩

[@honestone490]

@@dannycorsaro546 JFK never would have gotten the Civil Rights Act passed. He wasn't persuasive enough and way too busy as a skirt chaser. LBJ was the arm twister in Congress and knew everyone's dirty secrets . Sure he only did it for his own glory and legacy. However, it's the end result that only really matters. BTW Manure is actually fertilizer which only makes things grow even stronger.

[@dannycorsaro546]

@@honestone490 watch Kennedy to 911 rich mans trick!

[@honestone490]

@@dannycorsaro546 Is it any better than the History channel's presentation of Ancient Aliens and JFK.?

[@dannycorsaro546]

@@honestone490 you have to watch and decide yourself ✌️

[@robertsmith5744]

Term Limits. Automatic Voter Registration.

[@Duane8472]

He'd have WHO? voting Democrat for the next 200 years?

[@oceanbluesmalls]

Never should of listened to his advisers.

[@greggblade810]

My favorite quote of my favorite president

[@2H2521]

@greggblade810 You’ve got horrible taste if this corrupt scumbag war criminal murderer is your favorite president. He was an awful president.

[@Apaleutos24]

Many things can be said for Johnson but no one can deny that he supported and contributed a lot for the African Americans...

[@mainiak1]

Yes, excessive use of the n-word and passing the 1965 civil rights act while saying “I’m going to have these n-words voting democrat for 200 years.

[@titanicgazette]

His voting record in the House and Senate with other Southern Democrats against civil rights and anti-racism bills certainly doesn't reflect that.

[@dongf5628]

@@titanicgazette he voted for both the 1957 and 1960 civil rights bills.

[@christiangamer1752]

@@mainiak1 The Civil Rights Act has made things better, regardless of LBJ's motivations. It's unproven as to whether he actually said that quote. The person who claims he did was a Republican. Also, LBJ was a politician who knew his audience. His speech around a racist governor of Tennessee was different compared to his speech around a non-racist congress person. It's hard to say which is an act but at first glance, a lot of his words and thoughts seemed remarkably progressive for a Southern politician from Texas. He knew the dialect if nothing else.

[@nmfd72]

Yes Lyndon, because "black people" vote overwhelmingly Democrat and we gots to keep em down and dependent on us white folk with our Big Government agenda so we can stay in office and make our millions.

[@MrCeora]

+nmfd72 And why would black people vote for confederate flag waving dixiecrats posing as republicans you big dummy? More white people are dependent on government than black people. Big government = money to defense contractors who are pimps for conservatives. Very little money goes to poor people and americans in general compared to the 2%. You need to go somewhere and sit down.

[@nmfd72]

Keep talking shit, cause dats all keep poppin out you mouf.

[@MrCeora]

+nmfd72 Dats,mouf...did you get past the 3rd grade? No, I guess you think you're cool. "Too cool for school".LOL!

[@nmfd72]

comon Cledus, comon over here. You walk over but you're limbin back!

[@MrCeora]

+nmfd72 And poor white people vote overwhelmingly "con"servative to "conserve" money, tax breaks for the rich. they somehow think some of those millions and billions will rub off on them. HA!

[@anthonyrainey5572]

Lyndon Johnson was a great president he cared about poor people he may have not handle the Vietnam war right but he did alot more to help people rest on Lyndon Johnson

[@starter47990]

Such a great speaker

[@carolannshepherd2189]

I was only 6 in 1973 and Australian born

[@Jpbergjr58]

To Dalekmoon, Af·ri·can-Amer·i·can noun \ˌa-fri-kə-nə-ˈmer-ə-kən, -ˈme-rə- also ˌä-\ : an American who has African and especially black African ancestors Full Definition of AFRICAN-AMERICAN : an American of African and especially of black African descent - African-American adjective See African-American defined for English-language learners » See African-American defined for kids » First Known Use of AFRICAN-AMERICAN 1831 way before 1961.

[@johndoddridge4274]

greatest president ever! He was popping heart medicine all thru this speech but he made it

[@TheDudeAbides1998]

He was a racist POS! That's what he was. And because of him- racism will never die! That's his legacy.

[@shirtless6934]

Johnson did more for the blacks than any other person, alive or dead.

[@shirtless6934]

Go ahead and check the voting records. You will find that there were 10 Republicans from the South, and not a one of them voted for the Civil Rights Act. The "Democrats" who voted against the Civil Rights Act were Southern Democrats, and after the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were passed, they became Republicans, first at the national level, and then at the state level, and today, they are all Teabaggers.

[@TheDudeAbides1998]

Shirtless LOL....Now your making things up. Democrats will always will be the party of the KKK. Now the Liberal own mainstream media are revealing their true racist colors.

[@shirtless6934]

So, did Strom Thurmond, Phil Gramm, and many others did not turn Republican? Where are the Democrats in the South today? And if the Democrats are the party of the KKK, why did the KKK and other white supemacists endorse Trump?

[@ritawilliams8686]

He obviously never read the Emancipation Proclamation or he would know that it did not free even one slave.

[@jonalderson5571]

That's his whole point. "Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact" is one of LBJs most famous quotes

[@SandfordSmythe]

It freed slaves in the South as Union troops invaded it.

[@dharrell2000]

It would be believable if he didn't use the N-Word all the time

[@docadams7099]

That was accepted, standard practice back then.

[@johnnyboyboxing-yy4tw]

​@docadams7099 no it wasn't, it was standard of racist

[@j.tmckinnis9006]

Right

[@charleskeefer3043]

Winter wheat.

[@donald_the_savage1234]

LBJ was a good president, but he makes me go to sleep when he talks.

[@jeffreydrhodes]

The only criticism in the forum that is valid.

[@yao052]

Donald_the_savage 12 Well, it was a different era then.

[@robertsvorinich890]

If it wasn't for Vietnam, LBJ would have been a great president. That's like saying if it wasn't for all the people he killed, the serial killer would have been a decent chap. Hahaha

[@cultclassic999]

How to say in nearly 900 seconds what you could've said in 30 seconds.

[@rabidfarmer9765]

He said ‘i will have these nigras voting Democrat for the next 200 years.’ Looks like another hundred to go. LOL

[@jamespfitz]

He didn't say "nigrahs."

[@mariocanfora9117]

❤

[@mdsultanmahmud6805]

Hair Good

[@domamania]

Dealey plaza. That what i see in him and poppy bush aka Zapata.

[@jasonraczkowski6001]

You have proof ?

[@mikefallopian3191]

@@jasonraczkowski6001 Of course not, and they never will obviously.

[@albertopalma1663]

@@jasonraczkowski6001 Do some research and you'll be surprised.

[@jasonraczkowski6001]

@@albertopalma1663 yes I've done a lot of research on it so don't talk down to me like I'm 5. However legally he was never implicated in that crime

[@albertopalma1663]

@@jasonraczkowski6001 Good. I don't mean to talk down on you. Sorry. I've done a lot of research as well and I was surprised. So LBJ was not as many people think he was. I'm not going to wait till history says what a great man he was because history is written by the winners.

[@ThePixey1000]

LYNDON B JOHNSON will be know that was responsible for the American coup d'état in 1963 when he with rough CIA Agents murder the Kennedy brothers JFK / RFK this was a killer nothing else. His family should hang their heads in shame. The Truth Will OUT .

[@curranfrank2854]

It's been 57 years. When will The Truth Out?

[@plaanett]

He had jfk bumped off

[@3240590]

No doubt about it!

[@zyxquark]

then why didn't he bother to take his second term? you didn't even know that cause you weren't alive then and you're an ignorant moron. if you were willing to murder to get the job you wouldn't willingly step down. you're a fucking idiot.

[@3240590]

I often wondered the same thing, why not take a second term? I was 12 in '68 and kept up with current events and it seemed that Viet Nam may have troubled him deeply. It is very likely he could've been as much a victim of big government as JFK was. I don't guess we'll ever know for sure.

[@shirtless6934]

He declined to run (a) because he could not keep the rioting blacks under control in the cities; (b) he mismanaged the war in Vietnam; and (c) his health was declining.

[@shirtless6934]

He did not "take" his second term, because he probably would have lost the election, and might not have secured the nomination. There is no evidence that he had anything to do with the death of JFK.

[@jerryboggs3474]

Oct '68- personal letter from this man gave me a draft #.🤮

[@dvderek]

LBJ was one of the greatest presidents of all time. If only he had handled Vietnam better. RIP

[@richardwariner5886]

Listen to how LBJ really felt about blacks kzbin.info/www/bejne/f520fqxva56ZsLc

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

But despite that personal prejudice he still had the guts to do what he knew was right to advance the causes of justice and equality for black people and other minorities in this country. Racists love to try and tar everybody with the same brush of racism that they exhibit but in the end they can't deny that they fought and are still fighting to this day against equality and justice in this country. LBJ was a son of a bitch in a lot of ways, and he was a good ole boy career politician that would bully badger and belittle others to get his way. But he was wise enough to realize that our country was at a turning point and that it needed to change and he did what needed to be done to make it a better place despite his own prejudices and flaws. That's the difference between a patriot and somebody that only gives a damn about themselves and their own political career. In the end was a remarkable man with a flawed but impressive political legacy, which is far better than some other presidents I could name.

[@frankpinon595]

JFK's Killer....

[@gunsquawk4443]

Did more damage to the 2nd Ammendment than anyone else in history.

[@danielsemmens6640]

The facade that is LBJ rejoiced at Kennedy’s death and for sure helped cover it up if not was a participant

[@BobSmith-hp2dn]

Yeah up by my bung hole

[@HazeyWolf1337]

+dalekmoon www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/birthcertificate.asp "Nowhere on Barack Obama's birth certificate does the term "African-American" appear. The space for "Race of Father" is filled in with the word "African," which at the time was a descriptor that blacks who were actually native-born Africans (like Barack Obama's father was) were more likely to use for themselves than "negro" (the latter being synonymous with "slave" in Euro-colonial countries such as Kenya)."

[@earlsciambrajr.841]

+Hazey Wolf .... Because Obama is really a white Jew named Steve O. You need to break free from the lies they feed us daily. The entire govt are actors using pseudonyms because they don't even need to show an ID to run for office. Research it yourself. facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207253467552648&set=pb.1162985828.-2207520000.1440400499.&type=3&theater LBJ is the actor who played Gov Con nalley and William Holden. This is true facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203073745862218&set=a.10203371527546574.1073741842.1162985828&type=3&theater

[@chrisj1011]

+Earl Sciambra Jr. you are crazy! ha

[@bradpolhemus8698]

Liar. Monster. Murderer. Fact.

[@alexsingery9600]

osama bin ladeen learn English before typing any shits online

[@beazy7751]

Arguably the greatest and most consequential President since Abe Lincoln my favorite President of all time this man did more for Civil Rights than any politician ever

[@markharrison2544]

Johnson was a huge racist.

[@beazy7751]

Mark Harrison read a book inform yourself don’t be ignorant of history

[@markharrison2544]

He was recorded using the N-word.

[@rtm457]

B Eazy LBJ COULD GIVE A SHIT ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS. ALL HE CARED ABOUT WAS VOTES. HE HATED BLACK PEOPLE. OBAMA WASN'T ANY BETTER. LIBERAL PIECES OF SHIT BOTH OF THEM.

[@beazy7751]

rtm457 don’t know would he may have said in private but open a history book and you’ll see the historical contributions he undertook as great political risk

[@citysounds8487]

50000 us people.2 000000 vietnam people.you has Allies politician.imperialism partner.man love war.support and love you.call you hero.but many america.many man in world.know about irresponsible acts.of you.no shame.not regret later.you mistake history.hustory take not you activity forevers

[@j.tmckinnis9006]

Illun

[@marileedent8499]

Voted Democrat

[@antonkider7360]

He looked like a good man at the end of his life...

[@ronaldzent4845]

I heard that he also didn't like Bobby Kennedy so much,?

[@antonkider7360]

@@ronaldzent4845 Nor JFK.

[@stevestites9762]

Slimiest, meanest, most classless President we’ve ever had. Total creep.

[@dantheman8152]

LBJ

[@maribellopez2522]

Grea t lbj

[@clemsonbloke]

He is full of bullshit. He didn't mean anything that he said.

[@MidnightRambler]

Zoom forwards to 2018 the insane lefty democrats

[@mobboyz8180]

never won

[@marcsonnenberg623]

He won in 1964