damn well that that attack was carried out by israel and i don't and i for one second that lyndon baines johnson is a first class traitor on many levels and a pervert to boot so i'm not in any way defending that traitor however to suggest that lyndon baines johnson manipulated the israelis into it in tack for his own personal gains is insulting and absolutely contrary to the facts as i mentioned earlier their radio transcripts which are now a matter of public record in which the israeli pilots themselves are saying or questioning the order to attack what is clearly an american ship and the order is repeated to attack that ship so please don't tell me or anybody else that lyndon baines johnson manipulated that it is insulting now i'd like to get back to another point as well which is that of course as soon as we talk about the jewish state of israel and the jewish supremacists talmudic ideology which effectively puts all of us the rest of us the glory as cattle to be used and we look at the actual pattern the lavon affair the u.s.s. liberty and direct direct involvement in nine eleven in fact it

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let me point out that this decision was made by lyndon baines johnson himself. and i will tell you more about it as we go through it. this is a personal decision by the president of the united states to set a strategic direction for the american participation in the war and he was going to against his secretary of defense mcnamara, the joint chiefs of staff and did not consult the cia or the state department. the track record and the documents in the humphrey library thanks to professor stone, i was able to go there and find stuff which has been overlooked by scholars for many years that have been sitting there in the files which shows you the steps in the story. let me try to set a historical context of the vietnam war coming down to the fall of 1966. as you know, the french colonized indochina in the 19th century. during the end of world war ii, the japanese, they were occupying indochina, and they overthrew the french governing authority. they placed the french military in containment camps and they created a vietnamese government, a nationalist government. p

texas, and there's a political rally, and for the first time in your life you see in person lyndon baines johnson, the senator of the state of texas. what did you think when you first saw him? - i was bowled over by the helicopter. (audience laughs) i was on the town square and the helicopter landed. he traveled the state, this is the 1948 election, which he was beaten by 87 very contested and i have no doubt illegal votes down in the valley of texas. but he was campaigning hard in a helicopter, so who didn't want to see a helicopter in '48 the first year that helicopters were used in campaigns? so i went down to the town square and when he got off the helicopter took his big stetson and tossed it into the crowd. now i later learned that he did that at every stop and he had somebody on his staff who went and got the stetson and returned it to the helicopter at the next stop so he could toss it again. i mean i learned a lot about politics in that very moment. that realization that this was part of the game. this was just not that he had an endless supply of stetsons in the helicopter, but i rememb

as lyndon baines johnson. how did he factor into all of this when it came to the national guard?>> there was real tension. romney has to make some real choices about bringing in federal troops because he is essentially admitting that he has lost control of his city and his state. remember, detroit was the apple of washington's eye. there is a lot of funding coming into detroit the yet the office of economic opportunity. all of this is in jeopardy. what is interesting is that because detroit was so important to the johnson administration, after this, johnson himself is a little shocked and stunned. this is the first time that we get calls for a federal study of what in the world is going on. notably, even though he calls for this, he does not ultimately take it seriously and he does not implement what the so-called kerner commission suggested was needed. but, it really was that moment. detroit was the moment when everyone woke up. >> let us go to longview, texas. pierre. : i just wanted to say that this is an interesting story in that -- just to put this in perspective. i was born