[This is a rough, unpolished research file on the many Zionist and Jewish friends of Lyndon Johnson.]
On June 7, 1967 – President Lyndon Johnson, a
Zionist tool if there ever was one, of the USA and Israel intentionally orchestrated
an attack on the USS Liberty in which Lyndon Johnson and government of Israel
murdered 34 Americans and wounded another 171. LBJ’s goal in ordering Israel to
do this was to sink the USS Liberty and murdered all 294 Americans on
board and then blame the attack on Egypt. The goal was for the USA to have a
pretext to attack Nasser of Egypt, remove him from power and then have the USA
control the Middle East through its dominance over Egypt and in alliance with
Israel.
The best book on the USS Liberty is Joan
Mellen’s Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS
Liberty: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Joan-Mellen/dp/1633884643/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_US=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=joan+mellen+blood+in+the+water.&qid=1628369211&sr=8-1
Joan Mellen is Jewish but she is not a Zionist.
Lyndon Johnson was a Zionist and not only that a traitor many times over to his
country, the USA, both in the JFK assassination, which he orchestrated, and in
the 1967 USS Liberty murders which he also, orchestrated.
Lyndon Johnson was a mass murderer and many
Jews today in year 2021, look the other way from his many crimes because he was
a great friend of Israel and he also had many Jewish friends. My comment: I am
sure Adolph Hitler was nice to his secretary but he was still a mass murderer
and needs to be held to account for that. Ditto the mass murderer and life long
criminal Lyndon Johnson.
This file here is a “rough file” that documents
Lyndon Johnson’s extremely close ties to Zionists and Jews because that proves
that there is no way in hell Israel in 1967 would ever attack an American ship without the direct orders of the American president behind it.
Sincerely,
Robert Morrow Austin, TX 78746
1960 – 82% of Jews voted for JFK
1964 –
90% of Jews voted for LBJ
1968 – 81% of Jews voted for Humphrey
Excellent article by Laurent Guyenot on
USA-Israeli relations: “Kennedy, the Lobby and the Bomb,” May 2, 2013: Kennedy,
the Lobby and the Bomb, by Laurent Guyénot (voltairenet.org)
Web link: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-voting-record-in-u-s-presidential-elections
One think I think you are really
underestimating is just how many Zionist Jews (and Zionist Christians) were
around LBJ from the 1930s to 1967. Scores of them. And they were all telling
Israel, LBJ is your most wonderful friend. Which is why any intentional attack
by Israel on an American ship had to have been cleared (suggested, ordered) by
LBJ.
3 key articles on what a great friend of LBJ
was to Jews and what a great friend of Israel he was:
https://www.jpost.com/Features/A-friend-in-deed
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/bet-the-ranch
Luci Johnson – on growing up in an area where
there were many Jewish families because there were no deed restrictions
https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/07/opinion/luci-baines-johnson-on-lbj/index.html
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I grew up in Washington in
an area fondly known as "Hanukkah Heights." We lived in
"Hanukkah Heights" because there were no restrictive covenants as
there were in other areas that discriminated against buyers based on their
color or religion. My first employer and forever friend was one of the first
Jews able to buy a home in what had been a restricted neighborhood. The Fair
Housing Act was not just a bill for justice to me. It was all so very personal.
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Hanukkah Heights, Washington, DC https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/metromap/hanukkahheights
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So is the station on Van Ness street? Nope. Well, is the
neighborhood called Van Ness? Nope, it’s called Forest Hills. And, as it turns
out, Forest Hills actually has a very interesting history. For the first half
of the 20th century, restrictive covenants made it so builders, developers, and
owners of real estate could refuse to sell to minorities. Neighborhoods
throughout D.C. operated under these covenants, but Forest Hills was an
exception. Since homes in Forest Hills were constructed by individual builders,
the neighborhood was not under the jurisdiction of a single developer who could
impose a restrictive covenant on the entire neighborhood. The inclusive nature
of Forest Hills led to a huge inpouring of minority residents, the
highest number of which were Jews. In fact, there were so many Jews, the
neighborhood was nicknamed “Hannukah Heights.”
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Here is a map of Forest Hillarys, Washington,
DC – it is bounded by Connecticut Ave NW on the West, 36th Street NW
on the North and Broad Branch RD NW on the East
“LBJ fought a quiet battle to
desegregate housing — his own,” Karen Tumulty and Alice Crites, Wash Post,
1-15-2015.
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On the
Friday night after Kennedy’s November 1963 assassination, as attorney Sheldon
Cohen was heading out to services at his synagogue, he got a call from Abe
Fortas, whom Johnson would later appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In an
interview Monday, Cohen recalled that Fortas asked him to come over to his
Georgetown home to help the new president and first lady sort out their
personal finances.
Their
radio stations would go into a blind trust. But how to dispose of the house?
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SHELDON
COHEN - helped LBJ with his personal
affairs and LBJ later appointed Sheldon Cohen as the head of the IRS. https://www.timesofisrael.com/sheldon-cohen-commissioner-who-computerized-irs-dies-at-91/
QUOTE
Cohen,
who grew up in Washington, DC, served as IRS commissioner under President
Lyndon B. Johnson. He first worked with Johnson shortly after President John F.
Kennedy’s assassination.
Cohen also helped Johnson with his business affairs following a
phone call from his mentor, lawyer Abe Fortas, as Cohen was heading to Shabbat
services one Friday night, according to The Post. Cohen created a blind trust
for a radio station owned by the president in order to avoid a conflict of
interest. Fortas would later serve as a Supreme Court justice.
In 1964, Cohen started working at the IRS as chief counsel and a
year later took over as commissioner. The IRS was starting to use computers to
aid with processing tax returns, and Cohen helped the agency become fully
computerized, according to The Post.
Cohen also was
mired in controversy over the tax agency’s use of wiretapping in criminal
cases.
He had worked
previously at the IRS, in 1952, the year he graduated from George Washington
University’s law school.
Cohen,
the son of a shopkeeper from Lithuania, was involved in the Jewish community,
serving as an honorary life trustee of the
American Jewish Historical Society.
Following his
nomination to be IRS commissioner, he said that his two “pet charities” were
Washington’s Jewish social service agency and Jewish community center.
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1) Levi Eshol- Prime minister of Israel from 1963-1969 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Eshkol
QUOTE
His relations with American
President Lyndon B. Johnson greatly affected Israel–United
States relations and later on
the Six-Day War.
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1) Walt Rostow – national security advisor for LBJ from 1966-1969 –
Jewish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman_Rostow
QUOTE
Rostow was born in Manhattan,
New York City, to a
Russian Jewish immigrant family. His parents, Lillian (Helman) and Victor
Rostow,[4] were active socialists, and named Walt after the poet Walt Whitman. Rostow's father, Victor Rostowsky, was born in
the town of Orekhov near Odessa in 1886, and was involved in the Russian
socialist movement as a teenager, publishing a left-wing newspaper calling for
the overthrow of the Emperor Nicholas II in the basement of his parents' house.[5] In 1904, at the age of 18, Victor
Rostowsky boarded a ship that took him from Odessa to Glasgow and another ship
that took him to New York.[6] Upon arriving in the United States,
Rostowsky "Americanized" his surname to Rostow.[6] On 22 October 1912, he married Lillian
Helman, the intellectually gifted daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who
longed go to college, but as her family was too poor to afford higher
education, she instead encouraged her sons to attain the higher education she
wanted for herself.[7] Like the Rostowskys, the Helmans were Ashkenazim
(Yiddish-speaking Jews). The Rostows were described as being very
"idealistic" immigrants who deeply loved their adopted country and
named their three sons after the three men they considered to be the greatest
Americans, namely Eugene V. Debs, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson.[8]
Unlike many other Ashkenazi
Jewish immigrants, Victor Rostow always spoke to his children in English rather
than Yiddish as he felt this was would improve their chances in life.[6] Rostow's brother Eugene, who was named for Eugene V. Debs, became a legal scholar, and his brother Ralph, a
department store manager. The American journalist Stanley Karnow described Rostow as extremely intelligent with a
"brilliant" academic record that saw him graduate from high school at
the age of 15.[8] Rostow described his childhood as mostly
happy with the only dark spots being that sometimes his classmates called him
and his brothers "dirty Jews".[9]
Rostow's parents closely followed
events in Russia and Rostow later recalled a defining moment of his life
occurred as a teenager when his parents invited over for a dinner a group of
fellow Jewish socialists together with a man who was serving as a purchasing
agent for the Soviet government.[10] After the dinner, Rostow remembered that
his father said: "These communists took over the Tsarist police and made
them worse. The Tsarist police persecuted the political opposition but never
touched their families. These people touch families too. Nothing good will come
of it".[10] Rostow entered Yale University at the age of 15 on a full scholarship, graduated
at 19, and completed his Ph.D. there in 1940. He also won a Rhodes
Scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford, where he completed a B.Litt. degree. At
Oxford, Rostow became friends with future politicians Edward Heath and Roy Jenkins, being especially close to the latter.
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1) Jim Novy of Austin, huge friend of LBJ https://www.amazon.com/First-Jew-Texas-Life-Novy-ebook/dp/B007IX6REU
https://www.isjl.org/texas-austin-encyclopedia.html
QUOTE
Agudas
Achim, though smaller than Beth Israel, had also outgrown its building. They
bought land on Bull Creek Road in 1958 for $19,500. Their fundraising effort to
build on the new land got a big boost in 1962 when they sold their old property
to the U.S. Government for $144,000; the government tore down the synagogue and
constructed a new federal building on the property. With this windfall,
possibly the result of Jim Novy’s influence with Vice President Lyndon Johnson,
the congregation was able to begin construction on a new synagogue. Jim Novy,
who had headed up the fundraising effort for the new building, as he had done
for the old building three decades earlier, got his old friend Lyndon Johnson
to agree to give the keynote address at the new synagogue’s dedication, which was
set for November 24, 1963. When history interceded in Dallas on November 22nd
with the assassination of President Kennedy, the ceremony was postponed. A
month later, now President Lyndon Johnson came to Austin and dedicated the new
synagogue due to his friendship with Novy, who introduced the president that
night. This marked the first and only time a U.S. President has dedicated a
Jewish house of worship.
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2) Stanley Marcus, owner of Neiman Marcus was a
big time friend of Lyndon Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Marcus
Following Kennedy's death,
Marcus maintained close ties with Johnson and his administration, being
considered for diplomatic posts to France and to the United Nations General Assembly while continuing to run his company[52][53] and providing the wedding dresses for both the Johnsons'
daughters, personally assisting Luci Johnson in selecting the designer for her
own dress and the styles for the bridesmaids' gowns.[54] After Johnson's retirement, Marcus's invitations were
among the few the former president and his wife continued to accept.[55] Marcus's own daughter Wendy joined Mrs. Johnson's staff
for a time in 1963, working under Mrs. Johnson's personal secretary, Liz
Carpenter.[56]
2b) Wendy Marcus, daughter of Stanley Marcus
and a later Harvard Law grad, immediately went to work at the Johnson White
House after the JFK assassination. {Liz Carpenter, Ruffles and Flourishes, p.
118]
Wendy Marcus obituary https://obits.dallasnews.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?n=wendy-marcus-raymont&pid=193729966
Wendy Marcus Raymont, 80, died on
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 under the mountains, stars and night sky of Tepoztlán,
Mexico, a village she loved deeply, where she and her husband, Henry Raymont,
have lived for two years. A few hours after her death a shooting star lit up
the night, heading south. Wendy died from complications of Alzheimer's disease,
her family said. She'd been diagnosed with the disease in 2015. Wendy Raymont
was born Wendy Marcus in Dallas, Texas on October 2, 1938, daughter of Neiman
Marcus President Stanley Marcus and Billie Marcus. She was the younger sister
to Jerrie Marcus Smith of Dallas and Camden, Maine, and the slightly older twin
sister to Richard Marcus, of Austin, Texas. Wendy is survived by her husband,
Henry Raymont, of Mexico, her son, Daniel Raymont (Bonnie), of New York, Adam
Raymont (Katrin), of Berlin, Sarah Raymont (Alex), of New York, three
granddaughters, Lulu, Minnie and Linden, and grandson Theodore Eugene, born in
Berlin the week before her death. Wendy loved the Dallas she grew up in. She attended
the Hockaday School, and did her homework with the radio beside her head so she
could follow The Dallas Eagles baseball games. She went on to Smith College,
where she majored in Government and graduated summa cum laude. She graduated
from Harvard Law School in 1965, one of a handful of pioneering women in the
law. She remembered one class where the professor designated a random day a
month where he'd call only on women. She and the other female law students had
to be extra prepared "every day," because they never knew when that
day would come. Wendy met
journalist Henry Raymont of Koenigsbourg, Germany at the White House, where she
worked. It was the first Black Tie and Boots party hosted by President Lyndon
Baines Johnson. Henry noticed her dancing with a naval officer and made
his move, impersonating the nephew of impresario Sol Hurok. Replete with a
thick Russian accent, he offered her tickets to the touring Bolshoi Ballet. Wendy liked to tell people that,
as she worked in the White House, it was perfectly easy to obtain her own seats
to the ballet, and she politely declined his invitation. Nevertheless, she was
charmed by the newspaperman, and they courted next at the Casals Festival in
Puerto Rico, where Wendy was accompanying the First Lady, and Henry was on
hand, ready to show them the best of San Juan. They were married in the
library of the St. Regis Hotel in New York in 1966. Friends of his gave the
marriage a month. Friends of her father tried to steer the ship elsewhere. They
were married for fifty-three years. Wendy Raymont began her career in Washington clerking for U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Abe Fortas. She moved to the White House and worked as assistant
to Lady Bird Johnson. She then worked for the law firm Coudert Brothers
in Paris, and Time Magazine in New York. She returned to Washington to work as
legal counsel to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration within the
Commerce Department. She valued volunteering or serving on such boards as The
National Center for Therapeutic Riding in Washington DC and the Arena Stage.
She left the government after training to become a mediator and used this
training to work for immigrant rights in Boston, against corruption at
Transparency International in Berlin, and the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
(COHA) in Washington. Wendy inspired many young women in her life to pursue
careers outside the home. She encouraged them to be strong, independent
thinkers and envision what they could do in their lives. She valued intellect,
social responsibility, justice and empathy. To hear her laugh was to feel better
about your life in this world. Her laughter was a hug. She loved embarrassing
her children with noisy demonstrations of how "marvelous" life was,
and really, it was she who was marvelous: she had a profound faith in life and
those who knew her, learned it. Wendy believed in transparency and
conversation, and never gave up her optimism for the United States and its
potential for justice for all. Services scheduled for a later date. Memorials
may be made to: Smith College, Raices, or the Alzheimer's Association. A good way to remember Wendy would be to engage someone you
don't see eye to eye with, or, take a walk with someone younger. Show them the
trees, that growing up in this world is a wonder, too.
2) Arthur and Matilde Krim. My guess is Matilde
was fucking LBJ. Big Hollywood fundraiser for LBJ https://www.wrmea.org/from-our-archives/mathilde-krim-1926-2018-ardent-zionist-who-influenced-lbj-during-six-day-war.html
3) his superlawyer Abe Fortas https://www.nysun.com/opinion/lbjs-secret-israel-tapes/78712/
4) Abraham (Abe) Feinberg - top Zionist in
USA https://www.wrmea.org/1996-november-december/middle-east-history-it-happened-in-november.html
Good article on Abe Feinberg - https://www.israellobby.org/Feinberg/
QUOTE
FBI surveillance coverage of Feinberg stops during a period reporter
Seymour Hersh characterizes as Feinberg's moment of greatest influence over US
policy: the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
In the late 1970s Robert J. Lipschutz obtained the FBI's Feinberg file under
the authority of the Carter administration.
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4) Robert Benjamin – a Jewish lawyer and
partner with Arthur Krim. There is a picture on page 140 of Horace Busby’s book
The Thirty-First of March of a shirtless LBJ sitting around the swimming pool
at the LBJ Ranch with a shirtless Abe Feinberg, shirtless Arthur Krim, Matilde
Krim in a bikini and a dressed Robert Benjamin. Luci Johnson is there with her
toddler Patrick Lyndon Nugent (who was born in Austin, TX on June 21, 1967).
This photo appears to be from summer, 1968
b) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benjamin
QUOTE
Born to a Jewish family,[1] Benjamin
- along with his longtime friend and partner, Arthur B.
Krim - took over United Artists in 1951. The deal that they
struck with then-owners Charlie Chaplin and Mary
Pickford was that if the company showed a profit in any one of the
first three years of their management, the two would be able to purchase a 50%
share of the company for one dollar.[2]
The Krim-Benjamin team quickly showed a profit, and they bought
out Chaplin and Pickford to own the company outright in 1955. In 1957, they
took the company public.
In 1979, Robert Benjamin won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian
award posthumously. His wife Jean accepted the award on his
behalf.
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5A) Ed Weisl, Sr. - which the NYT called
one of LBJ's closest friends. Massive Wall Street fundraiser https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/14/archives/edwin-l-weisl-sr-key-democrat-dies.html
Weisl's picture has for decades
been on the wall at the LBJ Ranch which is about an hour from where I live in
Austin.
5B) LBJ installed Ed Weisl, Jr. to a key post
at the Justice Dept. – Assistant Attorney General https://www.justice.gov/enrd/edwin-l-weisl-jr
March 24, 1965.
6) Katherine Graham, owner of the Washington Post. Her
father was of Alsatian Jewish descent, although she was an Episcopalian in
worship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Meyer_(financier)
Her father was of Alsatian
Jewish descent, and her mother was a Lutheran whose parents were German
immigrants. Along with her four siblings, Katharine was baptized as a Lutheran
but attended an Episcopal church. Her siblings included Florence, Eugene III
(Bill), Ruth and Elizabeth Meyer.
Parent(s): Agnes E. Meyer; Gene Meyer
Born: Katharine Meyer;
June 16, 1917; New Y...
Spouse(s): Philip Graham (m.
1940; died 1..
Katherine Graham’s husband Phil Graham was a huge LBJ
supporter and helped get him on the 1964 Democratic ticket.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/04/the-post-graham-academy-awards-217218/
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As I and others have documented,
the blame for those dashed expectations fell largely on Kay, whom Phil
flagrantly ridiculed in front of their children and friends, making fun of her
weight, her clothes, her intellect, her Jewish heritage and more. In his presence, she became almost
mute; determined to avoid his withering gaze, she walked two steps behind him. “What
he did to Kay to destroy her was awful,” Jean Friendly, a childhood friend of
Kay’s, told me. “He was like a dentist’s drill [knowing] just where to hit the
nerve. … She became like the abused child who lurks in the shadows for fear of
getting hit.”
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6) Lew Wasserman, Hollywood legend whose son
sits on the board of the LBJ Library https://www.jta.org/2002/06/05/archive/obituary-lew-wasserman-jewish-movie-titan-and-philanthropist-dies-at-age-of-89
7) George Weidenfeld - heavy weight in
publishing industry, big time Zionist https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/books/george-weidenfeld-british-publisher-of-lolita-dies-at-96.html
8) David Ginsburg, one of LBJ’s
Jewish buddies http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/us/25ginsburg.html
NYT Obituary
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President Johnson’s basic vision of Israel was predicated
upon the core values of the ‘Special Relationship’ paradigm and ‘his door was
always open’ to such prominent members of the American-Jewish community (a
staunch supporter of this paradigm) as Democratic party fund-raiser, Abraham
Feinberg, Arthur Krim of Paramount Pictures, and David Ginsberg, a prominent
Washington lawyer.
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[Abraham Ben-Zvi, Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms
Sales to Israel: In the Shadow of the Hawk, p. 35]
9) Henry Crown of General Dynamics - LBJ played
a big role in getting the $7 billion TFX fighter plane contract for them https://www.abeldanger.org/crown-crime-family-of-chicago/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/12/2/668380/-
10) Andre Meyer – American investment banker and confidant
of Lyndon Johnson
Wiki: Married with two
children, Meyer, who was Jewish, and his family were forced to flee France
following the Nazi occupation
during World War II. He came to Lazard Frères' New York City
office with Chairman Pierre David-Weill (1900–1975) and following the Allied Forces liberation in 1944 David-Weill returned to
France and Meyer was appointed head of the American operations, a position he
would occupy for the rest of his life.
Wiki André Meyer, called "the most creative financial genius of
our time in the investment banking world" by David
Rockefeller, became one of the most important people in American business
with an influence that extended around the globe. Known as "The Picasso of
Banking," he introduced innovative financing techniques to post-War
American business. During the 1960s, Meyer was responsible for making Lazard
Frères the top mergers and acquisitions (M&A) firm in the U.S. He put
together prodigious deals through leveraged
buyouts for companies such as International
Telephone & Telegraph Company (ITT) who grew to become the
ninth largest industrial corporation in the United States.
Although
he personally was publicity-shy, André Meyer was an advisor to the Kennedy
family and a lifelong friend and advisor to Jackie
Onassis. He was a friend and advisor to other high-profile public
figures such as William S. Paley at CBS and Katharine
Graham at the Washington
Post. He was also a close confidant of U.S, President Lyndon
Johnson, consulting at the Oval
Office several times a year during Johnson's tenure.
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Between
1964 and 1968, Meyer visited the Johnson White House twenty-four times,
including eleven private Oval Office chats. And that didn’t count the
innumerable occasions when Johnson would pick up the phone and call Meyer, or
ask an intermediary to check with the financier. “At least five or six times a
year, LBJ sought Andre’s opinion on something,” says former UA chair Arthur
Krim, who often served as a liaison between the two men.
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[Cary
Reich, Financier: The Biography of Andre Meyer, p. 267]
QUOTE
Former
Lazard partner Robert Ellsworth, himself and ex-government official, remembers,
“Andre would talk endlessly about his contacts with Johnson. He always had a
silver-framed photo of him and Johnson on the White House north portico
prominently displayed. To me, it was ridiculous; to me, Johnson was just a
politician. There was no mystery at all. But to Andre, it was all magic.
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[Cary
Reich, Financier: The Biography of Andre Meyer, p. 268]
10)
Lawrence Halprin – Jewish – used by Lady Bird Johnson for landscape
Lawrence
Halprin: Landscape Architecture in Israel (californiahistoricalsociety.org)
Lawrence
Halprin and LBJ lawrence
halprin lyndon johnson - Bing images
Lawrence
Halprin | The Cultural Landscape Foundation (tclf.org)
Born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn,
Halprin spent three years on a kibbutz in the British Mandate of Palestine (now
Israel) before attending Cornell University and then the University of
Wisconsin, where he earned an M.S. in horticulture. He received his B.L.A. from
Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. After apprenticing with Thomas Church,
during which time Church built the famed Donnell garden in Sonoma, Halprin
opened his own office in 1949. Among his innovations is the design process
known as the RSVP Cycles. This method is marked by attention to human scale,
user experience, and the social impact of design; these strengths were likely
fueled by the work of his wife, dancer Anna Schuman Halprin.
Simultaneously he was able to attend to environmental concerns and to
incorporate community participation in the design process. Prolific throughout
his life, his major projects include the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C.; the
Sea Ranch community in California; Freeway Park in Seattle; Heritage Park Plaza
in Fort Worth, Texas, and Lovejoy Plaza in Portland, Oregon. Halprin
garnered numerous awards, including the Thomas Jefferson Medal in
Architecture and the National Medal of Arts, the latter bestowed by the
President of the United States.
10)
E. Ernest Goldstein – special assistant to LBJ from 1967-1969
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/lbjs-living-legacy/
QUOTE
E. Ernest Goldstein Age: 81
Special assistant to the president, 1967-1969
Now: legal adviser to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; Austin
“I was in
Paris practicing law, and I got a message that the president wanted to see me.
I flew to the White House, and he asked, ‘Ernie, how soon can you go to work?’
And I said, ‘Well, Mr. President’—I was acting like a horse’s ass—’I’m doing
some work for a Marlon Brando film, and I don’t know how long it will take.’ He
put his arm around me and said, ‘I’ve got news for you. I’ve got bigger
problems than Marlon Brando. You get over here in a week.'”
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E.
Ernest Goldstein bio- https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/magazine/in_memory/1939/ernestgoldstein
Eeser Ernest Goldstein ’39
died on May 25, 2008. His life’s work—public affairs, education, and
family—had their genesis at Amherst College. It was there that he met his
wife, Peggy Rosenfeld (Smith ’41), who predeceased him in August 2003.
And it was at Amherst that he was deeply influenced by Professors Cole and
Warne. But the exclusion of Jews from Amherst fraternities and the
admissions quota then in effect also spurred him to fight, lifelong, for those
who are excluded by prejudice.
During
World War II, Ernest Goldstein served in the Signal Corps as a cryptanalyst
deciphering German naval intelligence. He then completed his law school
education and went to work first at the Department of Justice in Alien
Property, tracking down American corporations secretly owned by German
companies. He then served as associate majority counsel to Senator Kefauver’s
Organized Crime Committee and as counsel to Congressmen Celler’s Antitrust
Subcommittee at a time when it investigated whether Major League Baseball’s use
of the reserve clause to restrict baseball players’ freedom to contract should
cause it to lose its antitrust exemption. According to contemporaneous
articles from the Washington Post, my father questioned, among others, Ty Cobb,
Joe DiMaggio, Duke Snider, and Branch Rickey. In 1952, he took a position
in Paris with the Mutual Security Agency, advising Marshall Plan beneficiaries
on the development of antitrust laws.
After
securing an SJD in 1955 from the Univ. of Wisconsin, Ernest Goldstein taught
for ten years at the Univ. of Texas law school, where he led the fight to
integrate the dormitories at the Univ. of Texas and was responsible for Dr.
King being the first African-American ever invited to speak at the
university. When the regents tried to fire him for these efforts, the
entire law school, but one, resigned and the regents backed down. As a
result of his fight for civil rights, he came to the attention of President
Johnson, whom he later served as a special assistant to the
president.
After his
tenure in the White House, he was a partner at Coudert Freres in Paris and,
concurrently with his private practice, fought quietly through back channels
for Soviet Jews seeking to emigrate. When in the mid-1990s my father
returned to Austin, TX, where he again taught and advised the University’s library
on copyright matters, he became deeply involved in establishing a program to
finance a program for poor college-bound African-Americans to spend a post-high
school year at Deerfield Academy.
Peggy
Goldstein chose to be a sculptor and a wife—roles thought to be incompatible in
1941. Throughout his life, Ernest Goldstein supported the idea in his
home life—where he was also an active father to his daughter, Susan, and son,
Daniel ’69—and at work, that men and women both could and should have full careers
and meaningful home lives.
It seems to
me that he made good use of an Amherst education.
—Daniel
Goldstein ’69
10) Solis Horwitz worked for LBJ from 1957-1957 when LBJ was
Democratic Majority Leader. https://www.jta.org/1964/06/26/archive/senate-committee-confirms-solis-horwitz-as-assistant-secretary
Senate Committee Confirms Solis Horwitz As Assistant
Secretary
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The Senate Armed Services Committee today
confirmed the appointment of Solis Horwitz, 53, as Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Administration, a newly created post.
Mr. Horwitz, who is of the Jewish faith, is
originally from Pittsburgh, Pa. He worked with President Lyndon Johnson when
Mr. Johnson was Senate Majority Leader and chairman of the Senate Preparedness
Subcommittee.
Oral History 1966 https://www.jfklibrary.org/sites/default/files/archives/JFKOH/Horwitz%2C%20Solis/JFKOH-SH-01/JFKOH-SH-01-TR.pdf
10) Samuel Newhouse https://newhouse.syr.edu/about/history
- broadcasting, magazines, newspapers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr.
“oldest of eight children born to Jewish immigrants”
LBJ dedicates new building at Syracuse University
with S.I. Newhouse (8-5-1964): https://www.syracuse.com/living/2021/08/president-lyndon-johnson-dedicates-new-building-at-su-then-addresses-the-nation-about-vietnam.html
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In
planning for the dedication of Syracuse University’s magnificent new S.I.
Newhouse Communications Center, a masterpiece of modern architecture, designed
by I.M. Pei, Chancellor William P. Tolley and S.I. Newhouse travelled to
Washington D.C. in March of 1964 to meet with President Lyndon B. Johnson.
According
to Tolley’s memoirs, Johnson agreed to come to Syracuse for the dedication only
to secure a commitment from Newhouse to support Johnson’s upcoming campaign
across his vast media empire, which, in fact, had roots in Syracuse.
The Syracuse Herald and Syracuse Journal were
among the first newspapers Newhouse acquired back in 1939. In 1941, he
purchased the Post-Standard. Newhouse agreed and Johnson committed
to the August 5th date.
None of these men, however, could have
imagined that a building dedication, even one attended by the President of the
United States, would be of global historical significance.
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10) Gerald W. Siegel known as Gerry Siegel, worked for LBJ
as general counsel of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, Jewish
QUOTE
Gerald W. Siegel, 83, a former vice president
and legal counsel for The Washington Post Co. who had been an adviser to
then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) in the 1950s and who had remained active
in the Democratic Party, died Oct. 15 at his home in Washington. He had
congestive heart failure.
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Before
joining the newspaper, Mr. Siegel was chief counsel of the Senate Democratic
Policy Committee from 1953 to 1958, when Johnson was majority leader. As chief
counsel, he helped draft the 1957 Civil Rights Act that established a civil
rights division in the Justice Department. Among his other Senate duties, he
was chief counsel to the special committee on space and astronautics that
helped frame legislation creating what became the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
Gerald
William Siegel, a native of Waterloo, Iowa, was a magna cum laude graduate of
the University of Iowa and a 1947 graduate of Yale Law School. He served in the
Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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After
leaving the Senate policy committee, Mr. Siegel lectured at Harvard Business
School until Johnson persuaded him to return to Washington in 1960 to help work
on other civil rights measures.
His
past board memberships included Children's Hospital, the Washington Heart Association,
the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Federal City Council, a
not-for-profit organization of the city's top businesses.
Survivors
include his wife, Helene Jacober Siegel, whom he married in 1948; a son, Bob,
of Chevy Chase; a daughter, Robin Siegel of Silver Spring; a sister, Tillie
Siegel Kronhein of Washington; and two granddaughters.
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LBJ sold his house, 1943-1961, on Thirtieth Place, to Gerald
Siegel!!!
The 36th president bought the brick Colonial in the Forest
Hills neighborhood of Northwest Washington for $18,000 in 1943 and lived in it
for 18 years, until he became vice president under John F. Kennedy.
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After Johnson became vice president, the family moved to a
mansion in Spring Valley. Johnson sold the Colonial to Gerald Siegel, who had
been an adviser to the senator and would later become legal counsel for The
Washington Post. The Siegels remained in the home until 2005, when Porter and
her husband bought it.
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10) David Lilienthal – Jewish friend of LBJ. The Father of
Public Power https://www.tva.gov/About-TVA/Our-History/The-Father-of-Public-Power
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Born in the back
of a small-town grocery store in Morton, Ill., the son of a struggling Jewish
family, Lilienthal grew up in Indiana with dreams of being a writer. He
attended DePauw University, graduated when he was only 20, and went on to
Harvard Law School. As a young lawyer he handled cases for the city of Chicago
and, still in his twenties, developed a reputation for having a comprehensive
understanding of public utility problems.
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LBJ and David Lilienthal were both old New Dealers and LBJ
had dealt with him for a very long time, including when Lilienthal was the head
of the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1940s.
Lilienthal bio - https://biography.yourdictionary.com/david-eli-lilienthal
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In 1955, with Lazard Frères backing,
Lilienthal and his TVA successor, Gordon Clapp, founded the Development and
Resources (D&R) Corporation. It provided managerial and technical services
to foreign nations for developing natural resources through TVA-like projects.
By 1967 the company's fees totaled over $3 million a year. At President Lyndon
Johnson's instigation, Lilienthal and his associates signed a three-year
contract with the federal government to plan the development of the Mekong
Delta in South Vietnam. Although D&R initially had with significant
successes, it ultimately failed. D&R met its downfall in the late 1970s
principally because of its associations with two of America's greatest foreign
policy disasters: Vietnam and Iran.
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LBJ praising Lilienthal on Aug. 22, 1967 https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/toasts-the-president-and-his-imperial-majesty-mohammad-reza-pahlavi-shah-iran
- this was a mere 2 months after the USS Liberty murders.s
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We stand ready tonight, as before, to help those who ask our
help--to strengthen the independence of all who seek it in purposeful
partnership. Now, as always, America seeks no domination--by force of arms, by
influence of wealth, by stealth or subversion.
We seek to build in brotherhood. We want to continue giving and
learning--as we will again when Iranian and American scientists soon begin to
study ways to exploit Iran's water resources, and to employ the exciting new
technology of desalting. Our cooperation will continue to grow in this and many
other ways.
We take great pride in having with us this evening Mr. David
Lilienthal who has done so much to plan and develop our own land and who is now
giving his talented energies to your country.
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http://mailstar.net/lilienthal.html
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{p. 235} The Jewish connection on the political level has
been of even far greater consequence. Starting at least with the Franklin D.
Roosevelt administration, important decision-making echelons of the U.S. government
have been filled with many Jews. The New Dealers contained the broadest kind of
list, ranging from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Herbert Lehman, David Niles, and
Samuel Rosenberg to Morris Ernst and Robert Nathan. Bernard Baruch
played a unique role as adviser to five Presidents. David E. Lilienthal and
Lewis H. Strauss were Chairmen of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Under the brief rule of John F. Kennedy, Arthur Goldberg served as Secretary of
Labor and Senator Abraham Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare. The presence of Abe Fortas on the Supreme Court, until his
resignation, was in the tradition of Justices Frankfurter, Cardozo, and
Brandeis, who had previously served on the highest court in the land.
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10) Samuel Rosenman – not sure if he was a close friend of
Lyndon Johnson, but LBJ was definitely acquainted with him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rosenman?fbclid=IwAR1wL-rAqrIUXr6FqdqABSqjV8du11GvN1pR5yVzchYbNF9OWTKzc1AR21s
Samuel Rosenman is mentioned in Horace Busby’s book The
Thirty-First of March as someone Horace Busby met through Lyndon Johnson.
Wiki:
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On October 6, 1943, three
days before Yom Kippur, Hillel Kook (aka Peter Bergson) organized a march to Washington DC (the famous Rabbis March) by a delegation of some 400 rabbis, most if
not all Orthodox and some recent immigrants, to make a public appeal to the
United States government to do more to try to rescue the abandoned Jews of
Europe. It was the only such protest in Washington during the Holocaust. The
rabbis were received at steps of the Capitol by the Senate majority and
minority leaders, and the Speaker of the House. After prayers for the war
effort at the Lincoln Memorial the rabbis went to the White House to plead with
President Roosevelt and were told that the President is busy all day and Vice
President Henry Wallace met them instead. It was later learned
that Roosevelt had several free hours that afternoon, but was advised by
both Stephen Wise (head of the World Jewish
Congress) and Samuel Rosenman (the
President's advisor, speech writer and head of the American
Jewish Committee) that the
protesting rabbis "were not representative" of American Jewry and not
the kind of Jews he should meet. Wise also accused the rabbis of
"offending the dignity of the Jewish people."[6]
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10) Robert
Strauss – longtime Democratic power
broker and friend of Lyndon Johnson. His parents were of Jewish descent
and from Germany. Robert Strauss was born in Lockhart, TX.
Robert Strauss Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Strauss
QUOTE
In 1937, while still an undergraduate, he volunteered for
Johnson's first congressional campaign. Strauss was also a member of the Texas
Cowboys, an honorary service organization at the University of Texas.
At the University of Texas Law School, he met
another student who would have a large impact on his career, Connally. After
completing his law degree, Strauss was hired as a special
agent by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
and served in the FBI throughout World War II.
After the war, he settled in Dallas, where he and a fellow FBI
agent, Richard A. Gump, founded their own law firm. This firm, originally known as
Gump and Strauss, would eventually grow into the international law firm Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. The many partners over the
years included a high-profile defense attorney, William G. Hundley.
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10) Robert Oppenheimer – Jewish – LBJ have him the Enrico
Fermi Award in an effort to honor Oppenheimer and clear his name.
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After the war, Oppenheimer
was appointed Chairman of the General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC), serving from 1947 to 1952. It was in this role that he voiced
strong opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb. In 1953, at the
height of U.S. anticommunist feeling, Oppenheimer was accused of having
communist sympathies, and his security clearance was taken away. The scientific
community, with few exceptions, was deeply shocked by the decision of the AEC.
In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson attempted to redress these injustices by honoring
Oppenheimer with the Atomic Energy Commission's prestigious Enrico Fermi Award.
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https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1967-father-of-1-000-suns-dies-1.5230344
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (the “J”
either stood for Julius, his father’s name, or was just a stand-alone initial)
was born in New York on April 22, 1904. His father, Julius Oppenheimer, was a
German-born textile importer, and his mother, Ella Friedman, was an artist.
Both were Jews, but their household was a secular one. (Many years later,
physicist Isadore Rabi, a strongly identifying Jew, commented that Oppenheimer
would have been better off “if he had studied the Talmud rather than Sanskrit …
It would have given him a better sense of himself.")
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Robert Oppenheimer Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer
10) Eric Leinsdorf Jewish conductor from Austria, refugee
from the Nazis- LBJ helped him become an American citizen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Leinsdorf
Leinsdorf – oral history with LBJ Library http://www.lbjlibrary.net/assets/documents/archives/oral_histories/leinsdorf_e/Leinsdorf1.pdf
10) Eugene L. Wyman – Democratic Beverly Hills
lawyer and major Demo fundraiser on the West Coast. Jewish, huge Zionist,
supporter of Israel bonds in the USA. His death was reported in the NYT on Jan.
20, 1973 https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/20/archives/eugene-l-wyman-lawyer-47-dies-fund-raiser-for-democrats-served-as.html
Eugene L. Wyman died on Jan. 19, 1973. Lyndon Johnson died a few days later on
Jan. 22, 1973
https://calisphere.org/item/27f76d96d5db2f5ab05470523cc60e11/
Rosalind (Roz) Wiener Wyman
(b. 1930-) was the youngest person (and only the second woman) ever elected to
the Los Angeles City Council and one of the youngest elected officials of a
major U.S. city, as well as the first Jewish Council member in 53 years. Wyman
graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1948 and attended the University of
Southern California where she received a B.S. in Public Administration in 1952.
She became politically active in college, launched her successful campaign for
the City Council seat and was elected in 1953 when she was just 22. During her
first Council term in 1954 she married attorney Eugene Wyman, a graduate of
Northwestern University and Harvard Law School - a fellow Democratic activist,
who founded a large entertainment law firm in Los Angeles. While on the city
council, Rosalind Wyman was the first female acting mayor, and she played a
pivotal role in bringing the Dodgers baseball team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles
in 1957. Unfortunately, controversies over that arrangement contributed to
Wyman's defeat for a fourth term in 1965. After leaving office, and in the sad
aftermath of her husband's unexpected death in 1973, Wyman continued her
involvement in political and public affairs, her influence extending beyond
California to the national Democratic Party. During the 1974 congressional
campaigns, she became the first woman to head a major party's fund-raising
efforts. She served as Convention Chair and chief executive officer of the 1984
Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, the first woman of either
major Party to wield the gavel at a presidential nominating convention. Wyman
has been a delegate to every Democratic National Convention since 1952 (except
one), last attending the historic 2008 Convention which nominated Barack Obama.
Wyman's national appointments include the UNESCO Commission and the National
Endowment for the Arts. She has been a leader of the Los Angeles Jewish
community, has received many Jewish community awards, chaired fund-raising
events, and served on the board of American Friends of the Hebrew University.
Wyman has also been a board member of many arts, social services, educational
and health organizations, and has received numerous awards, locally and
nationally.
Photograph caption dated April 10, 1958 reads,
"Now Take Me Out To The Ball Game - Councilwoman Rosalind Wyman presents
her 6-day-old daughter, Betty Lynn, just before the pair left Cedars of Lebanon
Hospital today. The cigar-smoking gent is the husband and father, Eugene L.
Wyman. Mrs. Wyman announced she will attend the opening Dodger baseball game,
despite the recentness of the arrival of her first child."
Henry Waxman on when he was elected head of the
California Federation of Young Democrats in 1965:
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The national Democratic Party’s main power
broker in California, a consigliere to both the Kennedy family and President
Johnson, was a Los Angeles lawyer by the name of Eugene Wyman, who, much to my
surprise, summoned me to a meeting shortly after I became president of the
CFYD. Wyman congratulated me on my new role, but was agitated about my
opposition to the war, and he sought to impress upon me the need to tone down
my criticism of the president. “You’re in a position of authority when you
speak for the Democratic Party,“ he complained. “You can’t be a leader of the
Democratic Party and be against this war and the president.” I explained I
didn’t think Johnson’s policy in Vietnam was the right one. Wyman insisted that
I couldn’t say that. I was dumbfounded. “Well, how about civil rights?” I asked
him. “Is it okay to talk about that?” “Oh, that would be fine,” he replied.
When our meeting ended, I left amused rather than intimidated that such an
important man cared so much about what I had to say.
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[Henry Waxman, The Waxman Report: How Congress
Really Works, p. ???]
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120220410/eugene-l_-wyman
Democratic
leader and lawyer. He was the former California Democratic national
committeeman and state central committee chairman and one of the party's chief
fund raisers at the time of his sudden death. A partner in the prestigious firm
of Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman and Kuchel, regarded as one of the most important in
the West, whose clients included Hughes, MGM, Warner Bros., Hertz and the
National Football League and National Basketball Assn., along with personal
clients such as Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball. His wife was a former Los
Angeles city councilwoman for 12 years. Wyman was credited with raising millions
of dollars for the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
and Hubert Humphrey and gubenatorial candidates Edmund G. Brown and dozens of
senatorial and House candidates. His funeral was attended by over 2000 people
that included sports figures, politicians, television and motion pictures
personalities.
https://www.lamag.com/longform/the-political-insider/
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan.
19—Eugene L. Wyman, a prominent fund raiser for the Democratic party, died,
apparently of a heart attack, at his law office here today. He was 47 years
old.
He leaves his wife, the
former Rosalind Weiner, a member of the Los Angeles City Council; two sons,
Bradley and Robert; a daughter, Betty, and two brothers, Melvin and Milford.
Backer of Humphrey
Eugene Wyman was the senior
partner in the law firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman & Kuchel and had served
as State Democratic chairman in California and as a national committeeman.
Early in last year's
Presidential campaign he raised the bulk of the funds for Hubert H. Humphrey's
campaign.
When Senator George McGovern
won the party's Presidential nomination, Mr. Wyman supported the Senator.
However, he could not resist remarking that Mr. McGovern's choice of Sargent
Shriver as this running mate, replacing Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, was
“McGovern's first good move.”
Mr. Wyman entered political
fund‐raising with John F. Kennedy's campaign in 1960. His theory of
obtaining money was that big donors must be exposed to the candidate and
“establish a personal relationship” with him.
Senator Humphrey had established contacts with wealthy men in
California partly through his support of Jewish causes, and this caused Mr.
Wyman to remark, “Hubert Humphrey is the best salesman of Israel bonds in the
country.”
In 1965 Mr. Wyman assisted
Pierre Salinger, the former press secretary to President Kennedy, in forming
the Golden Bear Club, a Democratic fundraising organization.
10) Leonard Marks – Wash DC attorney who handed
LBJ’s TV and radio station empire legal work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Marks
-
Leonard Marks was Jewish - https://www.jta.org/1965/07/14/archive/leonard-h-marks-appointed-new-director-of-u-s-information-agency
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President Johnson today appointed an
attorney of Jewish faith, Leonard H. Marks, to be the new director of the
United States Information Agency, to succeed Carl T. Rowan. Mr. Marks, of
Washington, is a board member of the Communications Satellite Corporation, and
is experienced in the field of communications.
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10) Hyman Bookbinder was Washington representative of the
American Jewish Committee and worked for JFK and LBJ
NYT Obituary
His wife Boshca Bookbinder https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/23/archives/bertha-bookbinder-60-was-civil-rights-activist.html
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She and her husband moved
to Washington in 1951, when he took a job in connection with the Korean war.
Later Mr. Bookbinder Was legislative representative for the A.F.L.‐C.I.O. and
held Government positions in the Administrations of John F. Kehnedy and Lyndon
B. Johnson.
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Hyman Bookbinder was a “leading American Jew” https://www.amazon.com/Through-Different-Eyes-Americans-Arab-Debate/dp/0917561392/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1617886797&refinements=p_27%3AHyman+Bookbinder&s=books&sr=1-2
American Jewish Committee’s press release (7-21-2011) upon
the death of Hyman Bookbinder https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ajc-mourns-passing-of-hyman-bookbinder-legendary-advocate-125975538.html showing Hyman Bookbinder greatest passions
were the defense of Israel (Zionist) and also he was a key aid in LBJ’s War on
Poverty.
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"Bookie was a cherished
colleague, legendary advocate, invaluable mentor, and dear friend," said
AJC Executive Director David Harris. "The impact of his advocacy
efforts, the relationships he built with ethnic, faith and political leaders,
and his tireless passion to serve the Jewish people will forever leave an
indelible mark on American society and beyond."
During
his 19-year tenure as AJC's Washington Representative, Bookbinder was
widely considered the dean of Jewish representatives on Capitol Hill. He regularly briefed Members of
Congress, many of whom were personal friends, published op-ed articles in The New
York Times and Washington Post, testified before House and
Senate committees, and was sought after for comment by print and broadcast
media.
Born in
1916, Bookbinder retired in 1986 but continued to serve as
AJC's Washington Representative Emeritus until his passing.
By the
time Bookbinder joined the AJC staff in 1967, he was well experienced in
the Washington political arena, navigating the halls of Congress and
the Administration. He previously worked for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
and the AFL-CIO, in President Kennedy's Commerce Department, and as a key aide in President
Johnson's war on poverty, working in the Office of Economic Opportunity.
He also served as director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial
Foundation.
But, it was at AJC that Bookbinder felt
most at home to pursue his passion for the causes dearest to the Jewish people
– defense of Israel, civil rights, social policy, Holocaust remembrance,
and Soviet Jewry.
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10) Joseph Hirshhorn – “the well-known art collector” who
LBJ persuaded to keep his art in the USA which led to the creation of the Hirshhorn Museum.
[Laura Kalman, Abe Fortas: A Biography, p. 220]
LBJ attended the ground breaking of the Hirshhorn Museum
- https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/joseph-h-hirshhorn-president-johnson-groundbreaking/
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Several international museums
and governments courted the intrepid collector, but he ultimately bequeathed
his comprehensive modern art holdings to the Smithsonian Institution. Lady Bird
Johnson, wife of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, played a supporting role by
paying personal visits to the Hirshhorns. After an Act of Congress established
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1966, the Johnsons joined the
Hirshhorns for the museum’s groundbreaking in January 1969, just prior to the
inauguration of President Richard M. Nixon.
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[ https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/the-founding-donor/
] = Footnote
WashPost on Joseph Hirshhorn - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/09/02/joseph-h-hirshhorn/8707eb21-caf3-4edd-aeb0-5130180aef3a/
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ONLY 15
years ago, two distinguished human dynamos, President Lyndon Johnson and
millionaire art collector Joseph Hirshhorn, reached an agreement. It led to Mr.
Hirshhorn's donation of his collection of over 6,000 pieces of sculpture and
modern painting to the public. After a protracted congressional dogfight and
years of complaint from the art world, the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden opened finally on the Mall in 1974. Now, seven years later,
"The Hirshhorn" has become recognized widely as a museum of stature.
Mr.
Hirshhorn, who died yesterday at the age of 82, a Latvian-born immigrant who
made his first fortune while still in his 20s, was a figure more easily
described--and often caricatured--than understood. Once business success had
provided sufficient funds for the task, he spent his adult life acquiring
paintings and sculpture with a decisiveness and rapidity that became legendary
in art circles. Despite the inevitable number of clinkers, a remarkably large
percentage of the collection (much of which Mr. Hirshhorn assembled before
obtaining any professional guidance) has weathered the skeptical scrutiny of
critics.
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Joseph Hirshhorn was Jewish https://avotaynuonline.com/2009/12/little-man-in-a-big-hurry-the-life-of-joseph-h-hirshhorn-uranium-king-and-art-collector-by-gene-hirshhorn-lepere/
Little Man in A Big Hurry: The Life of Joseph
H. Hirshhorn, Uranium King and Art Collector, by Gene Hirshhorn LePere
Little Man in A Big Hurry: The Life
of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Uranium King and Art Collector, by Gene Hirshhorn LePere. This is the remarkable story of
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who donated the largest private art collection ever
accumulated to the people of the United States. It is a rags-to-riches story of
an immigrant Jewish boy, barely eight years old, who arrived in the United
States from Latvia in 1907 and who, through oversized ambition, energy, smarts,
luck, and determination, accumulated a multi-million dollar collection of
contemporary art, now housed on the Mall in Washington, DC, in a building of
the Smithsonian Museum which bears his name: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden. The years covered are (his ancestry) from 1797 to 1825 and
from the birth of Joseph on August 11, 1899, to his death in August 1981. The
book covers the Friedlander and Hirshhorn families. Price: $26.95 Order from
Vantage Press, 419 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10016, (800) 882-3283;
from The Hirshhorn Museum Gift Shop (203) 357-1429; or from The Bruce Museum
(203) 869-0376. Amazon.com sells the book at a lower price. Book donated to the
Hirshhorn Museum and the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut
Joseph Hirshhorn – great article https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/11212/hirshhorn-of-plenty
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He
was even more incredulous about the coup that would be his crowning
achievement. His art collection was personally courted by President and Lady
Bird Johnson. LePere relays the vigorous debate that surrounded its donation
and the naming of the museum, citing an anonymous congressional statement that
“the fear among politicians of the anti-Semitic label was Mr. Hirshhorn’s most
important protector.” There were some legitimate critiques of the collection as
being uneven, owing to the haphazard way in which it was assembled, but without
Hirshhorn’s holdings it would have been virtually impossible for the government
to catch up with peer institutions. In any case, the outcome prompted the
Jewish immigrant from Latvia to marvel, “Just think of me, little Joe
Hirshhorn, my name is going to be on a building on the Mall in Washington,
D.C.—in perpetuity.”
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11) S. David Freeman – Jewish – advisor to LBJ https://www.sustaineurope.com/an-interview-with-s-david-freeman-20191028.html
International Rescue Committee
12) Sam Bloom of Dallas, big friend of LBJ, also the
father-in-law of Morris Jaffe. Sam Bloom of Bloom Advertising was in charge of
JFK’s lunch speech at the Trade Mart
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1975/july/remembering-bloom/
“Remembering Sam Bloom,” David Ritz, D Magazine,
July, 1975
David Ritz description of a 1960 phone call between Dallas’s
Sam Bloom and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who btw was running for
President in 1960.
QUOTE
The phone rings, and he presses a magic button,
not moving from the executive reclining position. The voice of the caller booms
from a loudspeaker box on the desk. It’s Lyndon Johnson calling from Washington. Johnson is seeking Mr.
Bloom’s advice, and Mr. Bloom, after listening to the Senate majority leader
for a minute or two, starts talking into space (without benefit of the standard
telephone receiver) as though he is addressing not only the senior Senator from
Texas, but the entire nation. As Mr. Bloom theorizes, as he waxes
eloquent, I desperately try to catch the drift of the conversation. But I am
lost; the talk is above me, beyond me. Mr. Bloom has said his piece and they
are ready to say good-bye. They call each other Sam and Lyndon, another button is
pressed, and then Johnson is gone.
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http://advertisinghall.org/members/member_bio.php?memid=546
Following
a highly successful 32-year career with the Dallas Times Herald, Sam Bloom
resigned to open his own advertising agency. Starting in 1952 with a small
office and three employees, he grew an agency that won national acclaim for its
inspiration and ingenuity, helping to transform the status of retail
advertising and its use in television.
Bloom's
agency worked to transform Zales from a small town chain of jewelry stores into
the world's largest jeweler. Grassroots advertising development and extensive
efforts to learn the client's business from the ground up were key elements of
his strategy.
Bloom
believed advertising could change the way people think and influence their
decisions. In the late 1950s, during a time of deep racial unrest throughout
the South, he developed a campaign to sell the logic of peaceful integration to
key cities such as Dallas, Miami and Memphis. His deep involvement with and
dedication to civic affairs led many state and national leaders to seek his
counsel. His concern for people and ability to see an issue from different
perspectives were factors in President John F. Kennedy’s decision to name him
to his White House conference on equal employment in 1961. Bloom’s infinite
compassion for his fellow man and keen understanding of human condition earned
him the respect and confidence of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Bloom continued
to contribute through his leadership of the National Council of Christians and
Jews.
Sam Bloom's
list of accomplishments within his industry and his community were numerous and
his honors many, yet he always found time to reach out, to help others and to
give back.
Critical Wash Post article that mentions Sam Bloom
Whenever Citizens' Council policies needed
public enunciation, the Bloom Agency did the job. So it was that when Connally
asked his friends to host a luncheon for President Kennedy, the Bloom agency
undertook the arrangements -- including the distribution of invitations.
This
was the problem Moyers wanted me to discuss with Sam. The Dallas liberal
Democrats were outraged at being short-changed on invitations; Yarborough was
protesting from Washington, and the conservative media loved the story. At a
minimum, the job was to dampen the din.
Bloom
was not surprised to see me walk into his office, even on a Sunday morning. Ten
years earlier, I had left New York for Dallas, a city in which I knew not a
soul. I had had a successful career in New York, first as an editor for
Newsweek and then as director of talent and creative programming at ABC
television. I was sure finding work in Dallas was a mere matter of asking.
Hardly.
The city had little interest in an expatriate New Yorker who was also a female
looking to do a man's work. Sam Bloom, however, became a mentor. One of the
directions in which he steered me was political. I was soon working on
Yarborough's first gubernatorial campaign, then doing jobs for Johnson and
Rayburn.
If Sam
was not surprised to see me, he certainly was not happy when I told him my
mission. "Goddam it," he yelled. "I'm sick and tired of those
people in Washington sending one guy after another in here claiming they are
working for the White House. They come in, look around and then disappear. All
they want to do is put their noses in our business and get tickets. I'm sick of
hearing about tickets. Now what do you want?"
12) Morris Jaffe – key LBJ friend, took over all of Billie
Sol Estes’s assets https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/files/jaffe-morris/
Morris Jaffe had a Jewish father crippled with polio and his
mom was French/Spanish
Morris Jaffe – a big player in San Antonio https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-bingo-king-is-dead-long-live-the-bingo-king/
Linda Minor on Morris Jaffe http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2011/06/jaffes-in-old-san-antonio.html
By RICHARD L. BERKE, Special to The New York
Times
Published: April 21, 1989
The father and son who arranged an oil well
deal that was beneficial to House Speaker Jim Wright are successful
entrepreneurs with little formal education and longstanding ties to prominent
politicians.
The two, Morris and Doug Jaffe, are also old
friends of a Wright business partner, George Mallick, a figure in the Wright
ethics investigation who was also involved in the oil well deal.
The Jaffes are not active in civic causes here
and prefer to operate behind the scenes financing political campaigns and
intricate business deals.
They have set up an empire of nearly 60
privately held corporations, and the details of their financial position and
the full reach of their investments remain a mystery.
Both Morris D. Jaffe, 66 years old, and Doug,
38, have been subpoenaed to meet here early next week with investigators from
the House ethics committee.
Morris Jaffe was a friend of and contributor
to President Lyndon B. Johnson and spent at least $9 million in 1962 to save
the empire of a Johnson crony, Billie Sol Estes. Mr. Estes was convicted of
fraud.
Mr. Jaffe, who has interests in oil, real
estate and aerospace, has been dogged by reports of ties to Carlos Marcello,
the reputed leader of organized crime in Louisiana. Mr. Jaffe has played down
the connection, saying that he only tried to buy land from Mr. Marcello but
that the deal collapsed when Mr. Marcello was convicted of assaulting an agent
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Federal Election Commission records disclose
no contributions to Mr. Wright in the last four years, but they show that the
Jaffes often backed Democratic House and Senate members, giving a total of
$4,000 to Representative Henry B. Gonzales of Texas and $3,000 to
Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin. Contributions to Coelho
A Jaffe company provided air travel a year ago
for a fund-raiser on behalf of the Valley Education Fund, the political action
committee of Representative Tony Coelhoof California. Records also show that
Doug Jaffe contributed $806 to Mr. Coelho a month later.
Morris Jaffe raises money for Democrats and is
close to prominent Texas politicians, including John S. White, former chairman
of the Democratic National Committee. Doug Jaffe, apparently with the support
of his father, arranged the sale of an oil well in Orange County, Tex., in
which a blind trust Mr. Wright had set up profited, according to the
committee's report. 'Traveled in Highest Circles'
While the elder Mr. Jaffe has not flaunted his
relationship with the Speaker, his associates were not surprised that his name
had turned up now. A local Democrat says Mr. Wright often travels on a Jaffe
plane when he makes a trip to San Antonio from his district in Fort Worth.
https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/files/jaffe-morris/
Morris Jaffe –
“Morris Douglas Jaffe was born in San Antonio on May 4, 1922. He
died peacefully on April 24, 2001, surrounded by his children and grandchildren
at the home of his son, Douglas. Jaffe graduated from Jefferson High School in
1940. He attended A&M University and joined the Air Force in 1942, where he
attained the rank of Captain and was trained as a test pilot in World War II.
After the war, he returned to San Antonio and with partner, David Martin,
formed Jaffe & Martin Construction Company which built several thousand
homes in San Antonio and sold them to returning veterans. Over the course of
his life, Jaffe was a private pilot for the President of Mexico, bought
Columbia Bowling Ball Company the first plastic bowling ball company in
America, and discovered the St. Joseph oil field in South Texas with fellow
oilman, Oscar Wyatt, Jr. In 1954, Jaffe discovered the first uranium field in
Texas. He developed and opened Central Park Mall in the mid-1960’s. In the late
60’s and during the 70’s, Jaffe collaborated with friend and baseball legend
Mickey Mantle in various business ventures. Also in the late 1950’s and 1960’s
he, along with Sol Price, established Fed-Mart, a NASDAQ traded company which was
one of the first major discount chains in America. Since the 1980’s, Jaffe
worked side-by-side with his eldest son, Douglas, in running Jaffe Group.
Together they developed a hush kit for the Boeing 707 and saved the aircraft
from extinction after the FAA passed a noise reduction act in 1985. Later, they
developed the Super Q, a totally renovated 707 which was sold throughout the
1980’s and 1990’s. They also acquired Horseshoe Bay Resort, a development on
Lake LBJ near Marble Falls. Alongside U.S. Representative Henry B. Gonzalez, a
close friend and confidant, Morris Jaffe received an honorary doctorate of law
from St. Mary’s University. He was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party
and a close, personal friend and advisor to three U.S. Presidents. Jaffe is
survived by his children, Jenifer Jaffe Gutmann, Judy Jaffe Barnes, Morris
Douglas Jaffe, Jr, Jeffery Herrmann Jaffe, Jana Stadler Jaffe, Jolie Michelle
Jaffe; 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A Graveside Service will
be held for immediate family only. Close friends and family are invited to
celebrate his life at the home of his son, Douglas, on Thursday from 5:00 P.M.
to 8:00 P.M. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made
to the CTRC or Hospice San Antonio. Mission Park Funeral Chapels South.”
Published in
Express-News on Apr. 25, 2001 – See more at: legacy.com
11) Anna Rosenberg- yet another friend of LBJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_M._Rosenberg
https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rsg06503
https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/29/1945/anna-rosenberg
11) David Sarnoff of NBC – LBJ was on the phone with him
within a week after the JFK assassination – Wednesday, Nov. 25th
David Sarnoff was Jewish and a television pioneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sarnoff#:~:text=David%20Sarnoff%20was%20born%20to,funds%20to%20bring%20the%20family.
David Sarnoff https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/david-sarnoff
11) William S. Paley CEO of CBS was Jewish. Another top LBJ
friend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Paley
12) Sidney Weinberg CEO of Goldman Sachs https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/secret-white-house-tapes/conversation-sidney-weinberg-august-5-1966
12. Arthur Goldberg!!
12. Abraham Ribicoff – “my old and good and warm friend of
many years, Abe Ribicoff” as LBJ gave a nice speech for the unveiling of a
portrait for Abraham Ribicoff on March 3, 1965 at a federal court house named
for him
https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/Ribicoffmore.pdf
12. Arthur “Tex” Goldschmidt was the one who introduced LBJ
to Abe Fortas in the 1930s. [Laura Kalman, Abe Fortas: A Biography, p.
199]
The Johnsons
in the 1930s became “part of a group which included Goldschmidt and his wife,
Elizabeth Wickenden; William O. Douglas; James and Elizabeth Rowe; Benjamin
Cohen; and Thomas Corcoran.
[Laura Kalman, Abe Fortas: A Biography, p. 200]
Tex Goldschmidt https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/goldschmidta
Arthur Goldschmidt NYT obituary https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/28/world/arthur-e-goldschmidt-90-a-un-envoy.html
His son Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. writes on the topic of Egypt
https://books.google.com/books?id=p3J6IS8t74QC&pg=PP12&lpg=PP12&dq=arthur+tex+goldschmidt+obituary&source=bl&ots=-574r3UYL7&sig=ACfU3U1oxx_HWW8ZQrSKz916ub2kwhxr2A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqqrTOm8fnAhUBnKwKHRDdDmoQ6AEwDXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=arthur%20tex%20goldschmidt%20obituary&f=false
12. Benjamin Cohen – I think he was Jewish. Certainly a
friend of Lyndon Johnson since the 1930s.
The Johnsons
in the 1930s became “part of a group which included Goldschmidt and his wife,
Elizabeth Wickenden; William O. Douglas; James and Elizabeth Rowe; Benjamin
Cohen; and Thomas Corcoran.
[Laura Kalman, Abe Fortas: A Biography, p. 200]
LBJ-Benjamin Cohen ties mentioned here https://www.jpost.com/Features/A-friend-in-deed
QUOTE
"The indefatigable
Johnson had never ceased pressure on the administration," wrote I.L.
"Si" Kenen, the head of AIPAC at the time. As Senate majority leader,
Johnson consistently blocked the anti-Israel initiatives of his fellow
Democrat, William Fulbright, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. Among Johnson's closest advisers during this period were several
strong pro-Israel advocates, including Benjamin Cohen (who 30 years earlier was
the liaison between Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis and Chaim Weizmann)
and Abe Fortas, the legendary Washington "insider." Johnson's concern
for the Jewish people continued through his presidency. Soon after taking
office in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Johnson
told an Israeli diplomat, "You have lost a very great friend, but you have
found a better one."
UNQUOTE
[“A Friend in Deed: New evidence reveals incredible aid
Lyndon Johnson lent the Jews,” by Lenny Ben-David, Sept. 9, 2008]
12. Wilbur Cohen – Secretary of HEW under Lyndon Johnson https://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/essays/cohen-1968-secretary-of-health-education-and-welfare
Wilber Cohen is known as the man who built Medicare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_J._Cohen
Wilber J. Cohen was the son of Bessie Rubenstein and Aaron
Cohen.
12. Barry Goldwater – long time friend and ½ Jew.
QUOTE
Goldwater “came in, just wanted to tell me that he was a
half-Jew, and that he didn’t want to say anything that would make them any
worse.”
UNQUOTE
[Joshua Zeitz, Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon
Johnson’s White House, p. 115]
12. Fred Friendly, president of CBS News 1964, television
pioneer, Jewish, friend of LBJ
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/the-man-who-good-tv-is-born-1.5415052
QUOTE
Johnson also rejected an offer by Fred Friendly, the
president of CBS News, to produce a year-end television special for distribution
on all three major networks, despite the assurances of one senior aide that
Friendly was “the best in the business and has a proper sense of respect for
the Presidency.”
UNQUOTE
[Joshua Zeitz, Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon
Johnson’s White House, p. 132]
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1976/02/the-power-and-the-profits-part-ii/305253/
QUOTE
In 1964, still bothered by his image, he asked
his friend Frank Stanton for help, and Stanton dispatched Fred Friendly to
advise him. Friendly was clearly there to teach Johnson about television.
President Johnson surprised him by demanding that he would join the White House
staff: Fred Friendly would become
Johnson’s chief intellectual, the domestic version of Mac Bundy;
the country needed Fred Friendly. Friendly, despite his own outsized ambitions,
knew he was in dangerous waters. He called old friend Ed Murrow, who warned him
off: “It’s the worst idea I ever heard—they’ll cut your balls off in four
weeks.” So despite further presidential pleas—“Make up your mind, make up your
mind, what are you going to do, sit around in New York at some fancy restaurant
drinking old-fashioneds and making $100,000 a year, or are you going to help
your country?”—Friendly remained in television. And Lyndon Johnson continued
his search for someone to transform him on television. Someone who could make
him less Texan, more eastern, shrink his nose, and gentle his accent. He could
not hire Friendly from CBS, so he eventually hired Kintner from NBC, but his
problems remained.
UNQUOTE
Fred Friendly Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_W._Friendly#:~:text=Friendly%20was%20born%20to%20a,Samuel%20Wachenheimer%2C%20a%20jewelry%20manufacturer.
Fred W. Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly
Wachenheimer, October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998) was a president of CBS
News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now. He originated the concept of public-access
television cable TV channels.
12. Eric F. Goldman??? – Was he Jewish? He was an advisor
to Lyndon Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_F._Goldman
Goldman is German and Jewish name https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=goldman
12) Richard Goodwin, former Kennedy man became an LBJ
speechwriter
A) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N._Goodwin
Fred Friendly of CBS – yet another high profile Jewish
friend of Lyndon Johnson https://www.nndb.com/people/659/000042533/
With Edward R. Murrow,
broadcast the first coast-to-coast television program, See It Now,
in 1952-5. After Lyndon B. Johnson fabricated
the Tonkin Gulf incident and (then CBS News President) Friendly accepted it at
face value, an ailing Murrow called Friendly on the telephone to tear his old
partner a new asshole. [Halberstam, p.444]
QUOTE
A Senate Rules Committee investigation into the Bobby Baker
scandal was indeed moving rapidly to implicate Lyndon Johnson, and on a matter
concerning a concurrent scandal and investigation. This was the award of a
$7-billion contract for a fighter plane, the TFX, to a General Dynamics plant
in Fort Worth. Navy Secretary Fred Korth, a former bank president and a Johnson
man, had been forced to resign in October 1963, after reporters discovered that
his bank, the Continental National Bank of Fort Worth, was the principal money
source for the General Dynamics plant.
On November 22, 1963, the day of the assassination, a closed
session of the Senate Rules Committee heard sworn testimony from a Baker
business associate, Don Reynolds. Reynolds was telling the committee of a big
lobbyists’ sex party in New York, and also of a suitcase he had seen, full of
money which Baker described as a $100,000 payoff to Johnson for his role in
securing the Fort Worth TFX contract. His testimony was broken off by the news
that the President had been shot.
This bit of history indicates that Vice
President Lyndon Johnson was involved in a criminal way in the crooked TFX deal
that gave Henry Crown’s new company the largest military aircraft contract in
U.S. history. As the recipient of a $100,000 payoff, Johnson would have been in
a position in which he could be blackmailed by Henry Crown.
Henry Crown’s personal lawyer, Albert E.
Jenner, who also served as a director of General Dynamics, was appointed by
Lyndon Johnson to the Warren Commission where he was tasked with investigating
the evidence of a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. He found
none.
UNQUOTE
13) The
last federal judge that LBJ ever appointed was Judge Jack Weinstein (1967-2020
years of service) who had a 53 year career
He
was born in 1921 to a Jewish family living in Wichita, KN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_B._Weinstein
Wiki- Weinstein
was born on August 10, 1921,[1] into a Jewish family living
temporarily in Wichita, Kansas, and was raised
partly in Brooklyn, New York.[2] He
graduated from Abraham Lincoln
High School in Brighton Beach,
Brooklyn. He graduated from Brooklyn College
with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1943.[3] During World War II he served
as a lieutenant in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. His duties included serving
as deck officer on board the submarine USS Jallao, where he also ran the radar equipment.[4] He
graduated from Columbia Law School with a Bachelor of Laws
in 1948.[3]
13) Louis Marx, the toy maker was Jewish and a
longtime LBJ friend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Marx
QUOTE
Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Austrian Jewish parents, Marx graduated from high school
at age 15 and started his career working for Ferdinand
Strauss, a manufacturer of
mechanical toys. By 1916, Marx was managing Strauss' plant in East
Rutherford, New Jersey. But was
eventually voted out by Strauss' board of directors over a disagreement about
sales practices.
UNQUOTE
QUOTE
On the night before Christmas, 1971, Lyndon
Baines Johnson played the most improbable role of his varied and controversial
life. Protected from public view behind the gates of his Texas ranch, and no
longer suffering the cloying presence of a battalion of White House reporters,
Johnson donned a red suit and false beard, climbed aboard a small tractor, and
drove to the hangar adjoining his airstrip. Assembled inside were the families
of his ranch hands for what had become a traditional ceremony over the years:
receiving greetings and gifts from LBJ. This time, they were so stunned at the
sight of the former President ho-ho-hoing aboard a chugging tractor that they
greeted his arrival with disbelieving silence. Undeterred, Johnson dismounted the tractor and unloaded a
bag of toys for the children, sent to him for the occasion by an old friend,
New York toy manufacturer Louis Marx, father of Patricia Marx Ellsberg.
UNQUOTE
Louis Marx – NYT obituary - https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/06/obituaries/louis-marx-sr-is-dead-at-85-toy-maker-and-philanthropist.html
The Toy King of America!
That is a starter list. I wonder if I could
find hundreds of powerful Zionist Jews around LBJ if I looked hard enough? And
all these folks were in direct contact with the leaders of Israel. Which is why
it is just nutty to think that Israel would attack an American ship without
doing do on the orders of (lunatic) Lyndon Johnson. Honestly, I do not think
Israel wanted to participate in this insanity but LBJ made them do it, that is
how fucking beyond the pale the man was.
Robert
In a message dated 3/28/2019 2:57:22 PM Central Standard
Time, contact@moneytreepublishing.com writes:
I disagree.
In fact, the Soviets wanted Nasser out also, as
he was too nationalist for them.
I don't think at that time there was much chance
of "installing an American lackey," as the Jews and
pro-Israel assholes made sure there could be no rapprochement b/t the U.S.
State Dep't and the UAR/Egypt.
And yes, I agree LBJ was a lunatic, but that
doesn't make up for the lack of hard evidence.
Dave
On
2019-03-28 13:30, Robert Morrow wrote:
The reason was removing Nasser, who by then was in bed with the
Soviets, from power and installing an American lackey. Once you understand that
Lyndon Johnson was a lunatic, it all makes perfect sense.
Robert
In a message dated 3/28/2019 7:37:50 AM Central Standard
Time, contact@moneytreepublishing.com
writes:
There was no
reason to get involved in the war as it was all but over.
Also “Lyndon Johnson, Friend of the Jews” by Jason Maoz for
Commentary, Aug. 22, 2008 https://www.commentarymagazine.com/culture-civilization/history/lyndon-johnson-friend-of-the-jews/
Also, “Lyndon Johnson and James Angleton - The Crypto Jews
Who Ruled America” https://wideawakegentile.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/lyndon-johnson-and-james-angleton-the-cryto-jews-who-ruled-america/
Also, from Jan. 24, 1973 from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“President Lyndon B. Johnson: Israel and American Jewry” http://www.jta.org/1973/01/24/archive/president-lyndon-b-johnson-israel-and-american-jewry
David Ginsburg, one of LBJ’s Jewish buddies http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/us/25ginsburg.html
http://5tjt.com/our-first-jewish-president-lyndon-johnson-an-update/
Our First Jewish President
Lyndon Johnson? – an update!!
A few months ago, the
Associated Press reported that newly released tapes from US president Lyndon
Johnson’s White House office showed LBJ’s “personal and often emotional
connection to Israel.” The news agency pointed out that during the Johnson
presidency (1963-1969), “the United States became Israel’s chief diplomatic
ally and primary arms supplier.”
But the news report does little to reveal the full historical extent of
Johnson’s actions on behalf of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
Most students of the Arab-Israeli conflict can identify Johnson as the
president during the 1967 war. But few know about LBJ’s actions to rescue
hundreds of endangered Jews during the Holocaust – actions that could have
thrown him out of Congress and into jail. Indeed, the title of “Righteous
Gentile” is certainly appropriate in the case of the Texan, whose centennial
year is being commemorated this year. Appropriately enough, the annual
Jerusalem Conference announced this week that it will honor Johnson.
Historians have revealed that Johnson, while serving as a young congressman in
1938 and 1939, arranged for visas to be supplied to Jews in Warsaw, and oversaw
the apparently illegal immigration of hundreds of Jews through the port of
Galveston, Texas….
A key resource for uncovering LBJ’s pro-Jewish activity is the unpublished 1989
doctoral thesis by University of Texas student Louis Gomolak, “Prologue: LBJ’s
Foreign Affairs Background, 1908-1948.” Johnson’s activities were confirmed by
other historians in interviews with his wife, family members and political
associates.
Research into Johnson’s personal history indicates that he inherited his
concern for the Jewish people from his family. His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher,
a major influence on LBJ, was a member of the Zionist Organization of America.
According to Gomolak, Aunt Jessie had nurtured LBJ’s commitment to befriending
Jews for 50 years. As young boy, Lyndon watched his politically active
grandfather “Big Sam” and father “Little Sam” seek clemency for Leo Frank, the
Jewish victim of a blood libel in Atlanta. Frank was lynched by a mob in
1915, and the Ku Klux Klan in Texas threatened to kill the Johnsons. The
Johnsons later told friends that Lyndon’s family hid in their cellar while his
father and uncles stood guard with shotguns on their porch in case of KKK
attacks. Johnson’s speech writer later stated, “Johnson often cited Leo Frank’s
lynching as the source of his opposition to both anti-Semitism and
isolationism.”
Already in 1934 – four years before Chamberlain’s Munich sellout to Hitler –
Johnson was keenly alert to the dangers of Nazism and presented a book of
essays, ‘Nazism: An Assault on Civilization’, to the 21-year-old woman he was
courting, Claudia Taylor – later known as “Lady Bird” Johnson. It was an
incredible engagement present.
FIVE DAYS after taking office in 1937, LBJ broke with the “Dixiecrats” and
supported an immigration bill that would naturalize illegal aliens, mostly Jews
from Lithuania and Poland. In 1938, Johnson was told of a young Austrian Jewish
musician who was about to be deported from the United States. With an element
of subterfuge, LBJ sent him to the US Consulate in Havana to obtain a residency
permit. Erich Leinsdorf, the world famous musician and conductor, credited LBJ
for saving his live.
That same year, LBJ warned Jewish friend, Jim Novy, that European Jews faced
annihilation. “Get as many Jewish people as possible out of Germany and
Poland,” were Johnson’s instructions. Somehow, Johnson provided him with a pile
of signed immigration papers that were used to get 42 Jews out of Warsaw.
But that wasn’t enough. According to historian James M. Smallwood, Congressman
Johnson used legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle “hundreds of Jews
into Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough money could buy
false passports and fake visas in Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American
countries. Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas. He hid
them in the Texas National Youth Administration. Johnson saved at least four or
five hundred Jews, possibly more.”
During World War II Johnson joined Novy at a small Austin gathering to sell
$65,000 in war bonds. According to Gomolak, Novy and Johnson then raised a very
“substantial sum for arms for Jewish underground fighters in Palestine.” One
source cited by the historian reports that “Novy and Johnson had been secretly
shipping heavy crates labeled ‘Texas Grapefruit’ – but containing arms – to
Jewish underground ‘freedom fighters’ in Palestine.”
ON JUNE 4, 1945, Johnson visited Dachau. According to Smallwood, Lady Bird
later recalled that when her husband returned home, “he was still shaken,
stunned, terrorized, and bursting with an overpowering revulsion and
incredulous horror at what he had seen.”
A decade later while serving in the Senate, Johnson blocked the Eisenhower
administration’s attempts to apply sanctions against Israel following the 1956
Sinai Campaign. “The indefatigable Johnson had never ceased pressure on the
administration,” wrote I.L. “Si” Kenen, the head of AIPAC at the time. As
Senate majority leader, Johnson consistently blocked the anti-Israel
initiatives of his fellow Democrat, William Fulbright, the chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Among Johnson’s closest advisers during this
period were several strong pro-Israel advocates, including Benjamin Cohen (who
30 years earlier was the liaison between Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis
and Chaim Weizmann) and Abe Fortas, the legendary Washington “insider.”
Johnson’s concern for the Jewish people continued through his presidency. Soon
after taking office in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in
1963, Johnson told an Israeli diplomat, “You have lost a very great friend, but
you have found a better one.” Just one month after succeeding Kennedy,
LBJ attended the December 1963 dedication of the Agudas Achim Synagogue in
Austin. Novy opened the ceremony by saying to Johnson, “We can’t thank him
enough for all those Jews he got out of Germany during the days of
Hitler.” Lady Bird would later describe the day, according to Gomolak:
“Person after person plucked at my sleeve and said, ‘I wouldn’t be here today
if it wasn’t for him. He helped me get out.’” Lady Bird elaborated, “Jews had
been woven into the warp and woof of all [Lyndon's] years.”
The PRELUDE to the 1967 war was a terrifying period for Israel, with the US
State Department led by the historically unfriendly Dean Rusk urging an
evenhanded policy despite Arab threats and acts of aggression. Johnson held no
such illusions. After the war he placed
the blame firmly on Egypt: “If a single act of folly was more responsible for
this explosion than any other, it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced
decision [by Egypt that the Strait of Tiran would be closed [to Israeli ships
and Israeli-bound cargo].”
Kennedy was the first president to approve the sale of defensive US weapons to
Israel, specifically Hawk anti-aircraft missiles. But Johnson approved tanks
and fighter jets, all vital after the 1967 war when France imposed a freeze on
sales to Israel. Yehuda Avner recently
described on these pages prime minister Levi Eshkol’s successful appeal for
these weapons on a visit to the LBJ ranch. Israel won the 1967 war, and
Johnson worked to make sure it also won the peace. “I sure as hell want to be
careful and not run out on little Israel,” Johnson said in a March 1968
conversation with his ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg,
according to White House tapes recently released.
Soon after the 1967 war, Soviet premier Aleksei Kosygin asked Johnson at the
Glassboro Summit why the US supported Israel when there were 80 million Arabs
and only three million Israelis. “Because it is a right thing to do,” responded
the straight-shooting Texan.
The crafting of UN Resolution 242 in November 1967 was done under Johnson’s
scrutiny. The call for “secure and recognized boundaries” was critical. The
American and British drafters of the resolution opposed Israel returning all
the territories captured in the war. In September 1968, Johnson explained, “We
are not the ones to say where other nations should draw lines between them that
will assure each the greatest security. It is clear, however, that a return to
the situation of 4 June 1967 will not bring peace. There must be secure and
there must be recognized borders. Some such lines must be agreed to by the
neighbors involved.” Goldberg later noted, “Resolution 242 in no way
refers to Jerusalem, and this omission was deliberate.” This historic diplomacy
was conducted under Johnson’s stewardship, as Goldberg related in oral history
to the Johnson Library. “I must say for Johnson,” Goldberg stated. “He gave me
great personal support.”
Robert David Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn College, recently
wrote in The New York Sun, Johnson’s policies stemmed more from personal
concerns – his friendship with leading Zionists, his belief that America had a
moral obligation to bolster Israeli security and his conception of Israel as a
frontier land much like his home state of Texas. His personal concerns led him
to intervene when he felt that the State or Defense departments had
insufficiently appreciated Israel’s diplomatic or military needs.”
President Johnson firmly pointed American policy in a pro-Israel direction. In
a historical context, the American emergency airlift to Israel in 1973, the
constant diplomatic support, the economic and military assistance and the
strategic bonds between the two countries can all be credited to the seeds
planted by LBJ.
ADDITONAL NOTE:
Lyndon Johnson’s maternal ancestors, the Huffmans, apparently migrated to
Frederick, Maryland from Germany sometime in the mid-eighteenth century.
Later they moved to Bourbon, Kentucky and eventually settled in Texas in the
mid-to-late nineteenth century.
According to Jewish law, if a person’s
mother is Jewish, then that person is automatically Jewish, regardless of the
father’s ethnicity or religion. The facts indicate that both of Lyndon
Johnson’s great-grandparents, on the maternal side, were Jewish.
These were the grandparents of Lyndon’s mother, Rebecca Baines. Their names
were John S. Huffman and Mary Elizabeth Perrin. John Huffman’s mother was
Suzanne Ament, a common Jewish name. Perrin is also a common Jewish name.
Huffman and Perrin had a daughter, Ruth Ament Huffman, who married Joseph
Baines and together they had a daughter, Rebekah Baines, Lyndon Johnson’s
mother. The line of Jewish mothers can be traced back three generations in
Lyndon Johnson’s family tree. There is little doubt that he was Jewish.
by Morris Smith
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/presquote.html#johnson
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"[The United States and Israel] share many
common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which
every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and
peace."
(Remarks Welcoming Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, June 1, 1964)
"Our society is illuminated
by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a
common love of human freedom and they have a common faith in a democratic way
of life ... Most if not all of you have very deep ties with the land and with
the people of Israel, as I do, for my Christian faith sprang from yours ....
the Bible stories are woven into my childhood memories as the gallant struggle
of modern Jews to be free of persecution is also woven into our souls."
(Speech before B'nai B'rith)
"I may not worry as much as
Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply."
(Conversation with Israeli Ambassador
Harman, February 7, 1968)
When Soviet Premier Aleksei
Kosygin asked Johnson why the United States supports Israel when there are 80
million Arabs and only three million Israelis, the President replied simply:
“Because it is right.”
http://nodisinfo.com/dallas-zionist-jews/
Title of the actual article: Why is Morris Jaffe Interesting?
John Delane Williams
Morris Jaffe is a name that JFK assassination researchers
haven’t encountered on a daily basis. Madeleine Brown, in her interview with
this writer (1), indicated, that in all of the previous times she’d been
interviewed, no one had ever asked about Jaffe before. Given the coincidences
of Jaffe’s known activities, I find that curious.
Morris Douglas Jaffe, to begin with, backed Johnson for the Democratic
nomination for President in 1960. Jaffe was in Los Angeles “… to lay his money
on the line. An old time San Antonio newspaperman came home admitting that
Jaffe not only seemed to be the “money” man but the brains and trouble-shooter
and smart beyond imagination, the most effective man behind Lyndon B. Johnson.”
(2).
Jaffe was the person who bought all of the holdings of Billie Sol Estes when
Estes declared bankruptcy, although Jaffe did not get Estes’ holdings
immediately. J.C. Williamson moved at once after Estes’ bankruptcy to regain
Estes’ property, which was blocked by the bankruptcy judge, Ewing Thomason, who
incidentally, was a good friend of Lyndon Johnson. (3) In June, 1963, Jaffe
paid Williamson only the outstanding amount on Williamson’s loan, $418,000, to
acquire Williamson’s holdings, who by that time had been converted to the
political conservative cause. (4). Jaffe was said to have offered $7 million
for Estes’s vast holdings. Actually, Jaffe, who preferred not to risk a single
red cent, agreed to pay perhaps as little as $100,000. (5). “The conclusion is
inescapable that the Johnson-controlled political machine in Texas designedly
set the stage for Jaffe’s takeover, as the cleanup was without financial risk
and potentially very good.” (6).
Apparently, Jaffe was in and Estes was out. Not only did Johnson not help
Estes retain his holdings, it appeared (at least to Estes) that he was getting
poor legal representation from John Cofer; Cofer had defended Johnson in the
infamous box 13 case, where a delay in reporting results from one precinct was
withheld until they knew how many dead people and other nonvoters had to
vote for LBJ for him to win the Democratic party’s
nomination for the Senate in 1948. (7) Cofer also got Mac Wallace (who was said
to be LBJ’s henchman) off with a five year probation after being convicted of
first degree murder. Estes was aware that Cofer was botching his defense, but
Estes was not allowed to fire Cofer. It was feared that an independent counsel
might implicate Johnson.(8)
Estes had a special relationship with Lyndon Johnson, then Vice-President,
who had previously served in the US House (1937-1949) and US Senate (1949-1961).
An integral part of that relationship was supplying LBJ with bagloads of money.
On one occasion, Estes was slow in getting a promised $500,000 to LBJ. LBJ
called Estes before dawn regarding the “donation”. Estes replied,”Do you know
what time it is?”, to which Johnson bellowed, “Hell, I didn’t call you to find
out what time it is! I called to find where the cash is. I want you to get out
to the fucking airport and get the goddamn cash on its way now!”
(9)
Estes was heard to say, “Lyndon would do anything for you he could,
if you paid him enough.” (10). In a letter from Douglas Caddy, the
lawyer for Estes in 1984, to Steven S. Trott, U.S. Department of Justice, a
hint at the enormity of Estes’ money transfers to Johnson is given: “Mr. Estes
is willing to disclose illegal payoff schemes, in which he collected and passed
on to Cliff Carter and LBJ millions of dollars”. (11)
Concurrently, Jaffe was also a close confidante of LBJ, and presumably a
similar arrangement would have been in place to supply LBJ with money; Jaffe
seemed to be a hand picked replacement for Estes. With Jaffe assuming Estes’
holdings, it seems likely that Johnson would continue to accept gratuities, at
an increased level, from Jaffe. Indeed, Jaffe’s reasons for being handpicked may
relate to his already having learned that being generous to Lyndon could
portend greater payoffs for Jaffe. While the Estes arrangements are relatively
well known and a part of the public record, Jaffe was much more a behind the
scenes player, and his activities are far less known. Jaffe died April 24, 2001
in San Antonio. (12)
Jaffe’s Earlier Adult Years
Jaffe was born in San Antonio of Jewish-Hispanic heritage
and became an aircraft engineering officer during World War II. Jaffe and a
friend, David P. Martin, began a construction company (Jaffe and Martin
Builders). They built barracks at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. It
was determined that Jaffe had wined and dined the civil engineer named McLain,
who was hired by the government to insure the job was done to specifications.
An inquiry was begun to investigate shoddy workmanship, but the investigation
ended when McLain was transferred.
A friend of Jaffe’s, Lieutenant Colonel Roger Zeller, was allowed to jump
over several hundred full colonels to the rank of Brigadier General, and get a
plum transfer to the Pentagon. With influence in the Pentagon and with Senate
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, “…Jaffe really hit his stride.” (13) Continuing
on at Lackland, Jaffe built a skating rink, which he could not own, because it
was on government ground, costing $260,000, but he was given a ten year period
to “recoup” his costs.
Jaffe used his influence to require that each airman in basic training skate
at least one hour a week. The director of basic training, Colonel James A.
Smyrl, was brought under fire because he refused to go along. It took some time
for Smyrl to save his military career; other Lackland officials would
eventually suffer either resignation or reassignment. And Jaffe? He would sell
his interest to a Sam Katz in January, 1959 and walk away unscathed, at a good
profit.
Jaffe also found South Texas uranium deposits, which, fortunately for him,
were appraised as being quite rich in uranium by the Atomic Energy Commission.
Jaffe picked up options on a large amount of acreage, inducing the government
to finance a giant processing plant. He then sold his leases and options at top
dollar, shortly before the industry went bust. It is as if he were in training
to take over Billie Sol’s holdings. (14)
The death of two sisters in Mexico
In 1976, Madeleine Brown received a telephone call from Sam
Park, a multimillionaire bachelor from Harris County at his South Texas ranch.
He called regarding the collapse of the Salinas family bank in South
Texas. The bank had taken down several celebrities with them, including John
Connally, Sammy Davis Jr. and Lt. Governor Ben Barnes. Connally and Barnes
filed for bankruptcy. Sam told Madeleine, “It sure looks like ol’ Lyndon’s carpetbagger, Morris Jaffe, has done
in Steve’s pretty little girlfriend, Beth Horstmann, and her sister, Alex Short.”
(15). Sam continued, “It was Jaffe, who introduced Alex Short to Salinas,
wasn’t it? The girls burned to death in a plane crash with $500,000 that the
paper says is missing from the bank.” (16)
Steve (who used the last name of Brown) was Madeleine’s son
with Lyndon who had dated Beth when they were both in high school. Alex had
worked for Jaffe for ten years. The girls died in the crash in Northern Mexico near H.L. Hunt’s retreat.
Back in 1976 accounts were insured for much less than today, perhaps as little
as $10,000. Thus, the girls stood to lose most of their account if they did not
withdraw the money before the bank went into receivership.
The girls were likely advised to withdraw the money
immediately. One might conjecture that the money was not on board the plane
when it went down. One might also conjecture that Sam Park surmised that Jaffe
was responsible for events that followed, including responsibility for the
sister’s deaths.
Other Jaffe misadventures
Jaffe was
said to be involved with his son, Morris Douglas Jaffe, Jr. in offering a $1
million bribe to fix a jury. (17) Jaffe Sr. also was said to have written two
checks to Linda Medlar, a former lover of Henry Cisneros, one-time Secretary of
Housing in Bill Clinton’s Cabinet. The government pursued Cisneros on tax
evasion. (18) This pursuit was probably a ploy to force Cisneros’ resignation.
On the other side of the coin, Jaffe was a co-owner of Fed-Mart, an early
discount chain. Sam Walton sought Jaffe’s advice about starting his own
discount chain, Wal-Mart. (19)
Morris Jaffe’s father-in-law was Sam Bloom (20). Bloom owned his own
advertising agency bearing Bloom’s name. (21) Bloom was a member of the Dallas
Citizens Council and was instrumental in getting the business community to
accept integration. His basis of argument was that integration was “good
business”. To continue segregation was to court disaster. Bloom produced a
movie and strategized on getting integration accepted. The Zodiac
Cafe in the Nieman-Marcus store was smoothly integrated. On an assigned day, 2
Black Men and 2 Black women, with no fanfare, sat down and had lunch.
The change process was smoothly handled. Not a single account was lost by
Niemann-Marcus. Bloom was a pragmatist who expended his energies getting things
done, rather than talking about them. He knew his fellow business owners were
oriented to doing things that made them popular rather than unpopular. His task
was to take the unpopular idea and turn it into a popular project. Bloom was a
leader in a town that had no shakers (22).
Bloom was placed
in charge of the reception in Dallas for President Kennedy’s visit.
The idea was to muzzle the right wing and minimize protests. Until the moment
JFK was shot, the plan seemed to be succeeding to the point that Nell Connally
said to JFK, “Well you certainly can’t say the people of Dallas are against you
today”. (23) Bloom was waiting at The Trade Mart along with other
dignitaries when Kennedy was assassinated.
Bloom was enlisted to handle
public relations for Judge Joe Brown for the Jack Ruby trial.
Ruby’s lawyer, Melvin Belli, was trying to get a change of venue, based on the
difficulty of getting a fair trial in Dallas. Belli was not successful in his
attempt.
Belli became
exasperated by Bloom, who he saw as interfering in his attempt at change of
venue; he was unclear about Bloom’s role, though he sensed the role as fitting
someone else’s agenda. (24) Belli was aware that citizens
councils were a Southern institution that existed in the former confederate
states. Their agendas addressed states rights, and were conservative White
organizations that reinforced the status quo. (25).
A member of the citizens council in Quitman, Georgia was Joseph
Milteer, who told of the upcoming JFK assassination on November 9,
1963 to Willie Somersett, an FBI informant. A picture of a
man said to be Milteer was taken in front of the School Book Depository at the
time of the assassination. See Groden (26) for a text of Milteer’s conversation
with Somersett, and the picture of Milteer at the assassination. Yet another
person associated with the assassination and the Citizens Council was General
Edwin A. Walker, scheduled to give an address to The Citizens Council of
Louisiana on the day of the assassination. (27)
An interpretation of
Bloom’s role with the Ruby trial was to prove to the world that Dallas was
innocent in the assassination of John Kennedy. This might be seen as motivated
by Dallasites to remove any negativeness towards Dallas, particularly as it
might relate to any loss of revenue to business persons in the city. If that
role conflicted with Belli’s sense that Ruby couldn’t get a fair trial in
Dallas, so be it.
Additionally, Elizabeth Forsling Harris, an employee at Bloom’s
advertising business, worked with Jack Puterbaugh in planning JFK’s visit to
Dallas. Puterbaugh made the decision to go through Dealey Plaza. Harris
was the Dallas contact with the Washington planners for the fated
visit. (28). Bill Moyers, then a presidential assistant, directed Harris to
publish the motorcade route. (29)
LBJ’s Jewish mafia connections: http://www.bollyn.com/political-assassinations/
NEW
YEAR'S DAY 1960 - SEN. LYNDON B. JOHNSON with Chicago Democratic Party boss
Jacob Arvey at a party function in Chicago, January 1, 1960, one day after
Arvey's partner Henry Crown merged his Chicago company with General Dynamics of
Texas. Arvey's criminal/political machine was instrumental in getting John
F. Kennedy elected - with Vice President Lyndon Johnson attached. Was Kennedy
used as a Trojan Horse to get Johnson, an ardent Zionist and probable
crypto-Jew, into the White House?
Jake Arvey, Henry Crown,
and the Supermob had aligned themselves closely with Lyndon B. Johnson long
before he became Vice President with the election of John F. Kennedy in
1960. Senator Johnson, for example, was the guest of honor at the grand
opening of the mob-run Stardust casino in Las Vegas on July 2, 1958.
Johnny Rosselli, named by self-confessed Kennedy assassin James Files as one of
the members of his three-man team of assassins in Dallas, was
a key player in the Stardust operation. Rosselli claimed he was getting $15,000
to $20,000 per month from the money being skimmed from the Stardust.
According to James
Files' testimony, Johnny Rosselli decided not to be a shooter on November 22,
1963, because he had been told that they were to be part of an anti-assassination action
- not an assassination.In any case, the Rosselli-Nicoletti-Files team was at
the "working level" of the JFK assassination, which is to say that
they were being managed by higher-level criminals.
Senator Lyndon Johnson
and his confidante Bobby Baker had very close ties to the Jewish mob, according
to Michael Newton, author ofMr. Mob: The Life and Crimes of Moe Dalitz:
Lyndon Johnson served as U.S. Senate majority leader from 1955
until he became Vice President in 1961. Two years before that promotion,
Johnson was a guest of honor at the Stardust’s grand opening. LBJ confidante
Robert “Bobby” Baker forged a close link to the Mob through his involvement in
Dominican casinos and through friendship with a cast of characters including
Meyer Lansky, Sam Cohen, Ed Levinson, and Miami-Vegas front man Benjamin
Sigelbaum.
Most importantly, Lyndon
Johnson was an active Zionist agent who had played a key role, as a new
congressman, in assisting the B’nai B’rith in their illegal immigration scheme
to bring Polish Jews to Texas in the 1930s. Although he was a member of
Congress, Johnson was also reportedly involved in sending weapons to Jewish
forces in Palestine in the 1940s - illegally.
Senator Johnson was
closely aligned with Henry Crown, who merged his Chicago company, Material
Service Corp., with Texas-based General Dynamics on December 31, 1959.
The following day, January 1, 1960, Senator Johnson attended a Democratic
function in Chicago where he sat next to Henry Crown’s senior partner-in-crime,
Jake Arvey.
In 1962, Vice President
Johnson played a key role in getting a $6.5 billion contract to produce a
military fighter (TFX/F-111) for Henry Crown’s Fort Worth-based General
Dynamics, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. Johnson reportedly
received a $100,000 payoff for his help in getting the contract that saved
Crown’s new company, asDeep Politics explains:
On November 22, 1963, the day of the assassination, a closed
session of the Senate Rules Committee heard sworn testimony from a Baker
business associate, Don Reynolds. Reynolds was telling the committee of a big
lobbyists' sex party in New York, and also of a suitcase he had seen, full of
money which Baker described as a $100,000 payoff to Johnson for his role in
securing the Fort Worth TFX contract. His testimony was broken off by the news
that the President had been shot.
Jack Ruby’s murder to
silence Lee Harvey Oswald was the linchpin in the cover-up of the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach
at the Department of Justice and J. Edgar Hoover were evidently part of a criminal
conspiracy to portray Oswald as a lone gunman from the outset. They also
conspired to conceal Jack Ruby’s connections to Jake Arvey and the Jewish mob
of Chicago. Their cover-up required a massive falsification of the evidence.
Katzenbach, a crypto-Jew
who also had close ties to the international order of Zionist Freemasons, the
B'nai B'rith, played the same key role in the JFK cover-up at the Department of
Justice
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at: http://www.bollyn.com/political-assassinations/#sthash.SteJWcnQ.dpuf
Johnson had been involved in illegal
Zionist activities since the 1930s and had a "special
relationship" with Israeli president Levi Eshkol, seen here at Johnson's
ranch in 1966.
Lyndon B. Johnson, who became the president on the
day Kennedy died, was an ardent Zionist and devoted supporter of the state of
Israel. His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher, who was a major influence on
Lyndon, was a member of the Zionist Organization of America. While it seems
very likely that his family was in fact Jewish (i.e.Crypto-Jews), there is absolutely no question that Lyndon Johnson was
a high-level Zionist who had been involved for decades with the Jewish
Freemasonic organization, the International Order of the B'nai B'rith, in the
illegal immigration of Jews from Poland to Galveston. The smuggling operation
of Jews to Texas in which LBJ was involved from 1937 is known as "Operation
Texas".
The B'nai B'rith was behind the plan to bring Jews from Poland to Texas.
Lyndon Johnson, as a new congressman, was a key player in this operation and
broke the law to facilitate the illegal immigration scheme.
Historians have revealed that Johnson, while
serving as a young congressman in 1938 and 1939, arranged for visas to be
supplied to Jews in Warsaw, and oversaw the apparently illegal immigration of
hundreds of Jews through the port of Galveston, Texas. In this operation
Johnson was working with the Zionist elders of the B'nai B'rith, not through
normal government offices.
When he became a Congressman in 1937, Lyndon Johnson began using legal and sometimes
illegal methods to smuggle "hundreds of Jews into Texas, using Galveston
as the entry port. Enough money could buy false passports and fake visas in
Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American countries.... Johnson smuggled boatloads
and planeloads of Jews into Texas. He hid them in the Texas National Youth
Administration... Johnson saved at least four or five hundred Jews, possibly
more," according to historian James M. Smallwood.
James Smallwood said, "It is correct that
Johnson did not risk his life, but he committed illegal acts to save the Jews.
It can be proved that LBJ saved some 42 from the Nazis. Indirect evidence says
he probably saved about 400. From my research, I agree with the larger number.
However, there are problems, since much of what went on was illegal and Johnson
knew better than to leave a paper trail."
According to Louis Gomolak's thesis,
"Prologue: LBJ's Foreign Affairs Background, 1908-1948," Johnson
and his friend Jim Lovy raised a very "substantial sum for arms for Jewish
underground fighters in Palestine." One source cited by the historian
reports that "[Jim] Novy and Johnson had been secretly shipping heavy
crates labeled 'Texas Grapefruit' - but containing arms - to Jewish underground
'freedom fighters' in Palestine."
Lyndon Johnson's illegal activities in support of
the Zionist forces in Palestine is something he had in common with Col. Henry
Crown, the Zionist Jew from Chicago who became the largest shareholder of
General Dynamics (of Fort Worth) in 1959. Henry Crown had purchased an
entire aircraft manufacturing plant, probably in Texas in the early 1950s,
which was crated up and shipped to Israel in violation of U.S. law.
From the earliest days of his political career
Lyndon Johnson was clearly working with and for the B'nai B'rith and the
Zionist mobsters who were bringing Polish Jews to Texas and later sending U.S.
weapons - illegally - to Zionist forces in Palestine. Johnson's history as a
high-level Zionist agent needs to be taken into consideration when looking at
his role in the cover-up of the evidence of a conspiracy to kill President
Kennedy and the cover-up of the murderous Israeli attack on the USS
Liberty in 1967.
President Lyndon Johnson was the official in the
highest position to mastermind the JFK cover-up and the person who appointed
the Warren Commission. It is important to realize that Johnson was an
active and dedicated Zionist agent who set the stage for the assassination as
Vice President and then masterminded the cover-up as the new president.
Lyndon Johnson and the Zionist-controlled media
have covered-up the truth of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
because it was a crime that was carried out by the Zionist criminal network,
which took power in the coup d'etat in Dallas in November
1963 and which has been in power ever since. The role of the Zionist-controlled
media is to keep the population from realizing that a criminal regime of
Zionist agents controls their government.
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Jack Fleischer - a Jew for LBJ - died in 2015 at the age of
98: http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/local-obituaries/jack-fleischer-famed-sportswriter-helped-lbj-campa/nnGNd/
Updated: 2:36 p.m. Sunday, Aug.
9, 2015 | Posted: 9:47 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015
Jack Fleischer, famed
sportswriter, helped LBJ campaign, dies
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Gary Coronado
Jack Fleischer of
Palm Beach played an important part in the ‘Honor America’ program.
Related
Jack Fleischer coined NFL’s ‘honor
America’ phrase for national anthem
By PBDN
Jack Fleischer, a longtime Palm
Beach resident and standout in sportwriting and politics, died Friday, July 31,
2015, in West Palm Beach. He was 98.
In 1970, Mr. Fleischer coined the National
Football League phrase
“and now to honor America” before the playing of the national anthem as a
reminder to fans to rise with respect. The phrase has been used at every Super
Bowl since and has also been adopted by Major League Baseball, the National
Hockey League and National Basketball Association for use at their games.
Mr. Fleischer was born March 21,
1917, in Bridgeport, Conn., the son of Julius and Matilda Fleischer. He
graduated from Ohio State University in 1940.
He moved to Palm Beach in 1979
after spending 20 years in Washington, D.C., where he combined careers in
sports and politics.
Mr. Fleischer was news director
for vice presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson at LBJ’s Washington
headquarters during the 1960 campaign and later became executive director of
the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In that capacity, Mr. Fleischer
was the architect of the successful 1962 senatorial campaign.
He was public relations director
of the Washington Redskins under Coach George Allen in 1977 and the author of
two books on professional football, My Sunday Best and Pro
Football At Its Best.
For many years, Mr. Fleischer
served as a member of the blue-ribbon committee that makes the annual selection
of the National Football League Foundation’s High School Coach of the Year award.
In 2002, he was elected to the
B’nai Brith Sports Hall of Fame. He also was a supporter of the Jewish National
Fund and the Jewish Federation.
Mr. Fleischer started a 25-year
career in journalism at age 13 as high school sports reporter for the Bridgeport
Post. He later worked for Scripps Howard newspapers in Columbus, Ohio, and
Memphis, Tenn.
During World War II, he served 43
months in the Army Air Force, and while stationed at Sioux Falls, S.D., he was
editor of the air base newspaper.
He was a freelance reporter for
NBC Radio Sports, and for many years covered the annual National Football
League owners’ meeting for the network. He was a member of the Pro Football
Writers of America.
In Palm Beach, he was a founding
member of the board of directors of the Variety Club Children’s charity.
Burial took place Tuesday at
Ahavath Achim Cemetery, Fairfield. Arrangements were handled by Abraham Green Funeral Home.
Memorial donations may be made to
Palm Beach Synagogue, 120 N. County Road, Palm Beach, FL 33480.
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Trump and Clinton Connections to LBJ and the USS Liberty http://thearabdailynews.com/2016/10/08/trump-and-clinton-connections-to-lbj-and-the-uss-liberty/
In “GUILT BY ASSOCIATION: How DECEPTION
and SELF-DECEIT Took America to WAR”, author Jeff Gates who served seven
years as counsel to the U.S. Committee on Finance, wrote about the ‘passionate
attachment’ of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mathilde Krim.
Mathilde was young, blond, Italian and an
Irgun operative.
The Irgun were the Zionist terrorist
network led by Menachem Begin who emerged as Likud Party Prime Minister in
1977.
With and without her husband, Mathilde
Krim was a frequent guest at the LBJ Ranch and the White House.
Jeff Gates wrote: “On the night that the Six-Day Land Grab
began, Mathilde was enjoying a sleepover in the Johnson White House. But for
that Zionist aggression, would Israel have been able to live peacefully with
its neighbors? Israel and its supporters staged an elaborate charade to recast
this provocation as defensive. That ruse included the cover-up of an Israeli
assault on the U.S.S. Liberty that killed 34 Americans and left 175 wounded.”
The
“5 Towns Jewish Times” is a website by an Orthodox Jewish
community “committed to address all matters of note from a position of
intelligence, integrity, and accuracy; and to report difficult social,
political, and religious issues from all viewpoints without bias, whitewashing,
or journalistic oversimplification.”
The following is
excerpted from a 2013 “5 Towns Jewish Times article titled, “Our First Jewish
President Lyndon Johnson? –An update!” by
Morrsi Smith
The Associated Press reported that newly
released tapes from US president Lyndon Johnson’s White House office showed
LBJ’s “personal and often emotional connection to Israel.” The news agency
pointed out that during the Johnson presidency (1963-1969), “the United States
became Israel’s chief diplomatic ally and primary arms supplier.”
Research into Johnson’s personal history
indicates that he inherited his concern for the Jewish people from his family.
His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher, a major influence on LBJ, was a member of the
Zionist Organization of America.
ON JUNE 4, 1945, Johnson visited Dachau…Lady
Bird later recalled that when her husband returned home, “he was still shaken,
stunned, terrorized, and bursting with an overpowering revulsion and
incredulous horror at what he had seen.”
A decade later while serving in the Senate, Johnson
blocked the Eisenhower administration’s attempts to apply sanctions against
Israel following the 1956 Sinai Campaign.
As Senate majority leader, Johnson consistently
blocked the anti-Israel initiatives of his fellow Democrat, William Fulbright,
the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“The indefatigable Johnson had never ceased
pressure on the administration,” wrote I.L. “Si” Kenen, the head of AIPAC at
the time.
Johnson’s concern for the Jewish people
continued through his presidency. Soon after taking office in the aftermath of
John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Johnson told an Israeli diplomat, “You
have lost a very great friend, but you have found a better one.”
Kennedy was the first president to approve the
sale of defensive US weapons to Israel, specifically Hawk anti-aircraft
missiles. But Johnson approved tanks and fighter jets, all vital after the 1967
war when France imposed a freeze on sales to Israel…
“I sure as hell want to be careful and not run
out on little Israel,” Johnson said in a March 1968 conversation with his
ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, according to White House
tapes recently released…
Robert David Johnson, a professor of history at
Brooklyn College, recently wrote in The New York Sun, Johnson’s policies
stemmed more from personal concerns – “his friendship with leading Zionists,
his belief that America had a moral obligation to bolster Israeli security and
his conception of Israel as a frontier land much like his home state of Texas.
His personal concerns led him to intervene when he felt that the State or
Defense departments had insufficiently appreciated Israel’s diplomatic or
military needs.”
President Johnson firmly pointed American policy
in a pro-Israel direction.
In a historical context, the American emergency
airlift to Israel in 1973, the constant diplomatic support, the economic and
military assistance and the strategic bonds between the two countries can all
be credited to the seeds planted by LBJ.
Lyndon Johnson’s maternal ancestors, the
Huffmans, apparently migrated to Frederick, Maryland from Germany sometime in
the mid-eighteenth century. Later they moved to Bourbon, Kentucky and
eventually settled in Texas in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.
According to Jewish law, if a person’s mother is
Jewish, then that person is automatically Jewish, regardless of the father’s
ethnicity or religion.
The facts indicate that both of Lyndon Johnson’s
great-grandparents, on the maternal side, were Jewish. These were the
grandparents of Lyndon’s mother, Rebecca Baines. Their names were John S.
Huffman and Mary Elizabeth Perrin. John Huffman’s mother was Suzanne
Ament, a common Jewish name. Perrin is also a common Jewish name. Huffman and
Perrin had a daughter, Ruth Ament Huffman, who married Joseph Baines and
together they had a daughter, Rebekah Baines, Lyndon Johnson’s mother. The line
of Jewish mothers can be traced back three generations in Lyndon Johnson’s
family tree. There is little doubt that he was Jewish.
George Ball was undersecretary of State
under JFK and LBJ who not only called for an early end to America’s War on
Vietnam, he also believed our policy of underwriting all of Israel’s
actions in the Middle East was detrimental to America’s interests. In
Ball’s last book, “The
Passionate Attachment: America’s Involvement with Israel” he
writes:
The LIBERTY’S presence and function were known
to Israel’s leaders. They presumably thought it vital that the LIBERTY be
prevented from informing Washington of their intention to violate any
cease-fire before they had completed their occupation of the Golan.
The ultimate lesson of the LIBERTY attack had
far more effect on policy in Israel than in America. Israel’s leaders concluded
that nothing they might do would offend the Americans to the point of reprisal.
If America’s leaders did not have the courage to
punish Israel for the blatant murder of American citizens, it seemed clear that
their American friends would let them get away with almost anything.
Israel paid minimal compensation to the
families of the USS Liberty crew and six million for damages to the spy ship,
which in fact should have exceeded 40 million.
Israel has never acknowledged that the
attack was premeditated but instead blamed the victims for being in international
waters.
Admiral Moorer, General Raymond Davis,
Rear Admiral Staring, Ambassador James Akins and other high ranking officials
have stated the attack on the USS Liberty was deliberate. They all asked for a
new Court of Inquiry be convened by the Department of the Navy with
Congressional oversight, to thoroughly investigate the attack on the USS
LIBERTY, which is the only way justice can be rendered to the
survivors. On 16 January 2004, Admiral Moorer wrote for the Stars and
Stripes:
There is compelling evidence that Israel’s
attack was a deliberate attempt to destroy an American ship and kill her entire
crew. In attacking the USS Liberty, Israel committed acts of murder against
U.S. servicemen and an act of war against the United States.
Following Israel’s 8 June 1967 attack on the USS
Liberty, Israel has received an ever-increasing portion of USA foreign aid and
military budgets because it is the ‘western pillar’ of the USA strategic
alliance against Soviet incursion into the Middle East…
Eileen Fleming on the Bethlehem side of Israel’s Wall,
Copyright Meir Vanunu
The above is excerpted from Eileen
Fleming’s 8th book,
A USS Liberty Remembrance
of 50 years USA Government Cover-Up of Israel’s 8 June 1967 Attack on the USS
Liberty,
LYNDON JOHNSON AND JAMES
ANGLETON —THE CRYPTO JEWS WHO RULED AMERICA
Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedys hated each other. So why was
LBJ even put on the 1960 Demo ticket in first place? The old wive’s tale is
that it was to balance the ticket and win the electoral votes of Texas. The
reality is that JFK was set to pick US Senator StuartSymington of
Missouri and had already had a deal with Symington to be VP that was “signed,
sealed & delivered” according to Symington’s campaign manager Clark
Clifford.
Then something strange happened on the night of July 13,
1960, in Los Angeles . According to Evelyn Lincoln, JFK’s longtime
secretary, LBJ and Sam Rayburn were using
some of Hoover‘s blackmail information on John Kennedy to force
JFK to put Johnson on the ticket in a hostile takeover of the
vice presidency. LBJ & Hoover were very close and literally neighbors for
19 years in Washington, DC, from 1943-1961. Both men were also plugged in
socially and professionally to Texas oil executives .
Lyndon Johnson’s maternal ancestors, the Huffmans ,
apparently migrated to Frederick, Maryland from Germany sometime in the
mid-eighteenth century. Later they moved to Bourbon, Kentucky and
eventually settled in Texas in the mid-to-late nineteenth century.
According to Jewish law, if a person’s mother is Jewish, then
that person is automatically Jewish, regardless of the father’s ethnicity or
religion. The facts indicate that both of Lyndon Johnson’s
great-grandparents, on the maternal side, were Jewish . These
were the grandparents of Lyndon’s mother, Rebecca Baines. Their names were John
S. Huffman and Mary Elizabeth Perrin. John Huffman’s mother was Suzanne Ament, a common Jewish name. Perrin is also a common Jewish name.
Huffman and Perrin had a daughter, Ruth Ament Huffman, who
married Joseph Baines and together they had a daughter, Rebekah Baines, Lyndon
Johnson’s mother. The line of Jewish mothers can be traced back
three generations in Lyndon Johnson’s family tree. There is little doubt that
he was Jewish.
Mother: Rebekah Baines (married Sam Johnson, Lyndon’s father)
Maternal grandparents: Ruth Ament Huffman and Joseph Baines
Maternal great–grandparents (parents of Ruth Huffman): Mary
Elizabeth Perrinand John S. Huffman, III
Lyndon Johnson’s wife, Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson (aka, “Lady
Bird”) is apparently a Sephardic Jew of Mexican origin. Although her facial
features are consistent with Semitic origin, that alone is not definitive
proof. Claudia’s mother, Minnie Lee Pattillo, was likely a Sephardic Jew from
Mexico. Pattillo is a common Spanish/Mexican name;
Historians have revealed that Johnson, while serving as a
young congressman in 1938 and 1939 , arranged for visas to be supplied to Jews in Warsaw, and oversaw
the apparently illegal immigration of hundreds of Jews through
the port of Galveston, Texas….
A key resource for uncovering
LBJ’s pro-Jewish activity is the unpublished 1989 doctoral thesis by University
of Texas student Louis Gomolak,
“Prologue: LBJ’s Foreign Affairs Background, 1908-1948.” Johnson’s activities
were confirmed by other historians in interviews with his wife, family members
and political associates. Research into Johnson’s personal history indicates
that he inherited his
concern for the Jewish people from
hisfamily.
His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher , a major influence on
LBJ, was a member of
the Zionist Organization of America.
According to Gomolak, Aunt Jessie had nurtured LBJ’s commitment to befriending
Jews for 50 years. As young boy, Lyndon watched his politically active grandfather “Big Sam” and father “Little Sam”
seek clemency for Leo Frank , the Jewish victim of a blood
libel in Atlanta(or the Jew pedophile murderer) depending on how you view
it . Frank was lynched by a mob in 1915, and the Ku Klux Klan in Texas threatened to kill the Johnsons .
( Obviously the Klan knew more about the “Johnsons” then the rest of America
did )
Already in 1934 – Johnson was
keenly alert to the dangers of Nazism and presented a book of essays, ‘Nazism: An Assault on Civilization’, to
the 21-year-old woman he was courting, Claudia Taylor – later known as “Lady
Bird” Johnson. FIVE DAYS after taking office in 1937, LBJ broke with the
“Dixiecrats” and supported
an immigration billthat would naturalize illegal aliens, mostly
Jews from Lithuania and Poland .
That same year, LBJ warned
Jewish friend, Jim
Novy, that European Jews faced annihilation . According to
historian James M. Smallwood, Congressman Johnson used legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle
“hundreds of Jews into Texas, using Galveston as the entry
port. He hid them in the Texas National Youth Administration. Johnson saved at
least four or five hundred Jews, possibly more.”
During World War II Johnson
joined Novy at a small Austin gathering to sell $65,000 in war bonds. According
to Gomolak, Novy and Johnson then raised a
very “substantial sum for arms for Jewish underground fighters
in Palestine .” One source cited by the historian reports that “Novy and
Johnson had been secretly shipping heavy crates labeled ‘Texas Grapefruit’ –
but containing arms – to Jewish underground ‘freedom fighters’ in Palestine.”
A decade later while serving
in the Senate, Johnson blocked the Eisenhoweradministration’s
attempts to apply sanctions against Israel following
the 1956 Sinai Campaign. Among Johnson’s
closest advisers during
this period were several strong pro-Israel advocates, including Benjamin Cohen (who 30
years earlier was the liaison between Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis and
Chaim Weizmann) and Abe
Fortas, the legendary Washington “insider.” Source
Johnson had close ties with Jewish
mobster Mayer Lansky (Mayer
Sukochowsky) .He had a long and sordid record of involvement in criminal
activities—including murder—that have finally begun to surface. One major
Johnson backer was Meyer Lansky’s Louisiana henchman, Carlos Marcello.
According to John W. Davis, Lansky’s man Marcello funneled at least $50,000 a
year inpayoffs to then-Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson who, in turn, helped kill
in committee all rackets-related legislation that might have been harmful to
the Lansky Organized John Davis. Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the
Assassination of John F. Kennedy. (New York:McGraw-Hill Publishing Company,
1989), p.159
When Lanskys crony,
Benjamin Sigelbaum,
was involved with long time Johnson intimate Bobby Baker in two major
dealings: the purchase of a bank in Tulsa, Oklahoma and in Baker’s
controversial Serv-U Vending Machine Company.152
Kennedys death
1) Removed from the White House a president— who had reached a
bitter impasse with Israel over its steadfast determination to assemble a
nuclear arsenal;
2) Completely reversed long-standing U.S. Middle East policy and
placed the United States firmly in Israel’s camp—with a vengeance.
3) Allowed Lyndon Johnson to reverse JFK’s Vietnam policy and
begin escalating U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. This permitted Israelto
advance its own geo-political stance in the Middle East; and
4) Enabled Israel’s allies in the CIA and the Meyer Lansky
Organized Crime Syndicate to gain a lock on drug trafficking in Southeast Asia
as a proximate result of U.S. involvement in the region.
Green summarizes the massive
extent of Johnson’s giveaways: “Seventy percent of all U.S. official assistance
to Israel has been military. America has given Israel over $17 billion in military aid since
1946, virtually all of which— over
99 percent—has been provided since 1965.
The crafting of UN Resolution 242 in November 1967 was
done under Johnson’s scrutiny. The call resolution opposed Israel returning all
the territories captured in the war. Goldberg later noted, “Resolution 242 in
no way refers to Jerusalem, and this omission was deliberate.”
Johnson
thought nothing of sacrificing 67 American lives in the USS Liberty attack as
long as his beloved Israel was not caught out and the attack was not shown for
what it really was ………a deliberate false flag attack to blame the Arabs and get
the US into the war LBJ reportedly told Admiral
Geiss that he did not give a damn if the ship sank that he would not embarrass
an ally (Israel). There are some who say it was Johnson who actually
ordered the attack to blame the Arabs and join Israel in a mid east war,or
at least had forewarning about it
Heres a small Indian link to
Johnson’s crypto Jewishess. Fori Nehru (Magdolna Friedman) was the Jewish wife
of Jawaharlal Nehru’s cousin B K Nehru She met Johnson during her stay in the
US as part of Indira Gandhi’s (Nehru’s daughter) entourage to the US
“…During the presidency of
Lyndon Johnson, (prime minister) Indira Gandhi travelled to the US. Johnson was bowled over by her. At
a dinner hosted by (ambassador) B.K. Nehru and Fori in honour of Indira,Johnson dropped in unannounced. Dinner
time approached but the president refused to leave, leading to a protocol crisis
as the dinner was not meant for him. Finally, Fori, in her unique way, asked,
‘Mr President, why don’t you join us for dinner?’ Johnson readily agreed. Fori
promptly dropped…”
President Johnson firmly pointed American policy in a pro-Israel
direction. In a historical context, the American emergency airlift to Israel in
1973, the constant diplomatic support, the economic and military assistance and
the strategic bonds between the two countries can all be credited to the seeds
planted by LBJ.
The Democratic party and the Jewish
vote. Lyndon Johnson got the highest percentage ever!
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-voting-record-in-u-s-presidential-elections
|
Election Year |
Candidates |
% of Jewish Vote |
% of National Vote |
|
1916 |
Hughes (R) |
45 |
46 |
|
Wilson (D) |
55 |
49 |
|
|
1920 |
Harding (R) |
43 |
60 |
|
Cox (D) |
19 |
34 |
|
|
Debs (Socialist) |
38 |
3 |
|
|
1924 |
Coolidge (R) |
27 |
54 |
|
Davis (D) |
51 |
29 |
|
|
LaFollette (P) |
22 |
17 |
|
|
1928 |
Hoover (R) |
28 |
58 |
|
Smith (D) |
72 |
41 |
|
|
1932 |
Hoover (R) |
18 |
40 |
|
Roosevelt (D) |
82 |
57 |
|
|
1936 |
Landon (R) |
15 |
37 |
|
Roosevelt (D) |
85 |
61 |
|
|
1940 |
Wilkie (R) |
10 |
45 |
|
Roosevelt (D) |
90 |
55 |
|
|
1944 |
Dewey (R) |
10 |
46 |
|
Roosevelt (D) |
90 |
53 |
|
|
1948 |
Dewey (R) |
10 |
45 |
|
Truman (D) |
75 |
50 |
|
|
Wallace (Progressive) |
15 |
2 |
|
|
1952 |
Eisenhower (R) |
36 |
55 |
|
Stevenson (D) |
64 |
44 |
|
|
1956 |
Eisenhower (R) |
40 |
57 |
|
Stevenson (D) |
60 |
42 |
|
|
1960 |
Nixon (R) |
18 |
50 |
|
Kennedy (D) |
82 |
50 |
|
|
1964 |
Goldwater (R) |
10 |
38 |
|
Johnson (D) |
90 |
61 |
|
|
1968 |
Nixon (R) |
17 |
43 |
|
Humphrey (D) |
81 |
43 |
|
|
Wallace (Independent) |
2 |
13 |
|
|
1972 |
Nixon (R) |
35 |
61 |
|
McGovern (D) |
65 |
38 |
|
|
1976 |
Ford (R) |
27 |
48 |
|
Carter (D) |
71 |
50 |
|
|
1980 |
Reagan (R) |
39 |
51 |
|
Carter (D) |
45 |
41 |
|
|
Anderson (I) |
15 |
6 |
|
|
1984 |
Reagan (R) |
31 |
59 |
|
Mondale (D) |
57 |
41 |
|
|
1988 |
Bush (R) |
35 |
53 |
|
Dukakis (D) |
64 |
46 |
|
|
1992 |
Bush (R) |
11 |
37 |
|
Clinton (D) |
80 |
43 |
|
|
Perot (I) |
9 |
19 |
|
|
1996 |
Dole (R) |
16 |
41 |
|
Clinton (D) |
78 |
49 |
|
|
Perot (I) |
3 |
8 |
|
|
2000 |
Bush (R) |
19 |
48 |
|
Gore (D) |
79 |
48 |
|
|
Nader (I) |
1 |
2 |
|
|
2004 |
Bush (R) |
24 |
51 |
|
Kerry (D) |
76 |
48 |
|
|
2008 |
McCain (R) |
22 |
46 |
|
Obama (D) |
78 |
53 |
|
|
2012 |
Romney (R) |
30 |
47 |
|
Obama (D) |
69 |
51 |
|
|
2016 |
Trump (R) |
24 |
46 |
|
Clinton (D) |
71 |
48 |
American Jews tend to favor Democratic
candidates, with 71% of Jewish voters choosing Democratic candidates and only
25% choosing Republicans since 1968.
* - Number as percentage of popular vote
A Friend in deed: New evidence reveals incredible aid Lyndon
Johnson lent the Jews
https://www.jpost.com/Features/A-friend-in-deed
A few weeks ago, the
Associated Press reported that newly released tapes from US president Lyndon
Johnson's White House office showed LBJ's "personal and often emotional
connection to Israel." The news agency pointed out that during the Johnson
presidency (1963-1969), "the United States became Israel's chief
diplomatic ally and primary arms supplier." But the news report does
little to reveal the full historical extent of Johnson's actions on behalf of
the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Most students of the Arab-Israeli
conflict can identify Johnson as the president during the 1967 war. But few
know about LBJ's actions to rescue hundreds of endangered Jews during the
Holocaust - actions that could have thrown him out of Congress and into jail.
Indeed, the title of "Righteous Gentile" is certainly appropriate in
the case of the Texan, whose centennial year is being commemorated this year.
Appropriately enough, the annual Jerusalem Conference announced this week that
it will honor Johnson in February 2009. Historians have revealed that Johnson,
while serving as a young congressman in 1938 and 1939, arranged for visas to be
supplied to Jews in Warsaw, and oversaw the apparently illegal immigration of
hundreds of Jews through the port of Galveston, Texas. A key resource for
uncovering LBJ's pro-Jewish activity is the unpublished 1989 doctoral thesis by
University of Texas student Louis Gomolak, "Prologue: LBJ's Foreign
Affairs Background, 1908-1948." Johnson's activities were confirmed by
other historians in interviews with his wife, family members and political
associates. Research into Johnson's personal history indicates that he
inherited his concern for the Jewish people from his family. His aunt Jessie
Johnson Hatcher, a major influence on LBJ, was a member of the Zionist
Organization of America. According to Gomolak, Aunt Jessie had nurtured LBJ's
commitment to befriending Jews for 50 years. As a young boy, Lyndon watched his
politically active grandfather "Big Sam" and father "Little
Sam" seek clemency for Leo Frank, the Jewish victim of a blood libel in
Atlanta. Frank was lynched by a mob in 1915, and the Ku Klux Klan in Texas
threatened to kill the Johnsons. The Johnsons later told friends that Lyndon's
family hid in their cellar while his father and uncles stood guard with
shotguns on their porch in case of KKK attacks. Johnson's speechwriter later
stated, "Johnson often cited Leo Frank's lynching as the source of his
opposition to both anti-Semitism and isolationism." Already in 1934 - four
years before Chamberlain's Munich sellout to Hitler - Johnson was keenly alert
to the dangers of Nazism and presented a book of essays, Nazism: An
Assault on Civilization, to the 21-year-old woman he was courting, Claudia
Taylor - later known as "Lady Bird" Johnson. It was an incredible
engagement present. FIVE DAYS after taking office in 1937, LBJ broke with the
"Dixiecrats" and supported an immigration bill that would naturalize
illegal aliens, mostly Jews from Lithuania and Poland. In 1938, Johnson was
told of a young Austrian Jewish musician who was about to be deported from the
United States. With an element of subterfuge, LBJ sent him to the US Consulate
in Havana to obtain a residency permit. Erich Leinsdorf, the world famous
musician and conductor, credited LBJ for saving his live. That same year, LBJ
warned a Jewish friend, Jim Novy, that European Jews faced annihilation.
"Get as many Jewish people as possible out [of Germany and Poland],"
were Johnson's instructions. Somehow, Johnson provided him with a pile of signed
immigration papers that were used to get 42 Jews out of Warsaw. But that wasn't
enough. According to historian James M. Smallwood, Congressman Johnson used
legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle "hundreds of Jews into
Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough money could buy false
passports and fake visas in Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American countries....
Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas. He hid them in
the Texas National Youth Administration... Johnson saved at least four or five
hundred Jews, possibly more." During World War II Johnson joined Novy at a
small Austin gathering to sell $65,000 in war bonds. According to Gomolak, Novy
and Johnson then raised a very "substantial sum for arms for Jewish
underground fighters in Palestine." One source cited by the historian
reports that "Novy and Johnson had been secretly shipping heavy crates
labeled 'Texas Grapefruit' - but containing arms - to Jewish underground
'freedom fighters' in Palestine." ON JUNE 4, 1945, Johnson visited Dachau.
According to Smallwood, Lady Bird later recalled that when her husband returned
home, "he was still shaken, stunned, terrorized and bursting with an
overpowering revulsion and incredulous horror at what he had seen." A decade later while
serving in the Senate, Johnson blocked the Eisenhower administration's attempts
to apply sanctions against Israel following the 1956 Sinai Campaign. "The
indefatigable Johnson had never ceased pressure on the administration,"
wrote I.L. "Si" Kenen, the head of AIPAC at the time. As Senate
majority leader, Johnson consistently blocked the anti-Israel initiatives of
his fellow Democrat, William Fulbright, the chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Among Johnson's closest advisers during this period were
several strong pro-Israel advocates, including Benjamin Cohen (who 30 years
earlier was the liaison between Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis and Chaim
Weizmann) and Abe Fortas, the legendary Washington "insider."
Johnson's concern for the Jewish people continued through his presidency. Soon
after taking office in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in
1963, Johnson told an Israeli diplomat, "You have lost a very great
friend, but you have found a better one." Just one month after succeeding
Kennedy, LBJ attended the December 1963 dedication of the Agudas Achim
Synagogue in Austin. Novy opened the ceremony by saying to Johnson, "We
can't thank him enough for all those Jews he got out of Germany during the days
of Hitler." Lady Bird
would later describe the day, according to Gomolak: "Person after person
plucked at my sleeve and said, 'I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for him.
He helped me get out.'" Lady Bird elaborated, "Jews had been woven into
the warp and woof of all [Lyndon's] years." THE PRELUDE to the 1967
war was a terrifying period for Israel, with the US State Department led by the
historically unfriendly Dean Rusk urging an evenhanded policy despite Arab
threats and acts of aggression. Johnson held no such illusions. After the war
he placed the blame firmly on Egypt: "If a single act of folly was more
responsible for this explosion than any other, it was the arbitrary and
dangerous announced decision [by Egypt] that the Strait of Tiran would be
closed [to Israeli ships and Israeli-bound cargo]." Kennedy was the first
president to approve the sale of defensive US weapons to Israel, specifically
Hawk anti-aircraft missiles. But
Johnson approved tanks and fighter jets, all vital after the 1967 war when
France imposed a freeze on sales to Israel. Yehuda Avner recently described on
these pages prime minister Levi Eshkol's successful appeal for these weapons on
a visit to the LBJ ranch. Israel won the 1967 war, and Johnson worked to make
sure it also won the peace. "I sure as hell want to be careful and not run
out on little Israel," Johnson said in a March 1968 conversation with his
ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, according to White
House tapes recently released. Soon after the 1967 war, Soviet premier Aleksei
Kosygin asked Johnson at the Glassboro Summit why the US supported Israel when
there were 80 million Arabs and only three million Israelis. "Because it
is right," responded the straight-shooting Texan. The crafting of UN Resolution
242 in November 1967 was done under Johnson's scrutiny. The call for
"secure and recognized boundaries" was critical. The American and
British drafters of the resolution opposed Israel returning all the territories
captured in the war. In September 1968, Johnson explained, "We are not the
ones to say where other nations should draw lines between them that will assure
each the greatest security. It is clear, however, that a return to the
situation of 4 June 1967 will not bring peace. There must be secure and there
must be recognized borders. Some such lines must be agreed to by the neighbors
involved." Goldberg later noted, "Resolution 242 in no way refers to
Jerusalem, and this omission was deliberate." This historic diplomacy was
conducted under Johnson's stewardship, as Goldberg related in oral history to
the Johnson Library. "I must say for Johnson," Goldberg stated.
"He gave me great personal support." Robert David Johnson, a
professor of history at Brooklyn College, recently wrote in The New
York Sun, "Johnson's
policies stemmed more from personal concerns - his friendship with leading
Zionists, his belief that America had a moral obligation to bolster Israeli
security and his conception of Israel as a frontier land much like his home
state of Texas. His personal concerns led him to intervene when he felt that
the State or Defense departments had insufficiently appreciated Israel's
diplomatic or military needs." President Johnson firmly pointed
American policy in a pro-Israel direction. In a historical context, the
American emergency airlift to Israel in 1973, the constant diplomatic support,
the economic and military assistance and the strategic bonds between the two
countries can all be credited to the seeds planted by LBJ. The writer
served as deputy chief of mission of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Today,
an international consultant, he blogs at www.lennybendavid.com.
Houston Holocaust Museum gives out annually a Lyndon Baines
Johnson Moral Courage Award!
https://jhvonline.com/liberation-theme-of-hmhhs-lbj-moral-courage-award-dinner-p27389-89.htm
Brig.
Gen. Sparks to be honored posthumously on May 8
With the 75th anniversary of V-E Day on Friday,
May 8, this year’s 25th Annual Lyndon Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award Dinner
will commemorate this historical event with the theme of liberation. Brig. Gen.
Felix L. Sparks will receive the internationally recognized award posthumously
on Monday, May 11, at the Hilton Americas-Houston, 1600 Lamar St.
Holocaust Museum Houston presents the Lyndon
Baines Johnson Moral Courage Award to individuals who have taken a stand
against injustice, hatred and prejudice, and who use their skills and influence
to make a better world for all people. The Sparks family will accept the award.
The annual event – one of the city’s largest and
most widely recognized philanthropic dinners – supports Holocaust Museum
Houston’s worldwide educational programs. More than 900 people attended last
year’s dinner, which raised $1.1 million for the museum.
Honorary chairs include The Honorable Lina
Hidalgo, Harris County judge; Luci Baines Johnson; and The Honorable Sylvester
Turner, mayor, city of Houston. Dinner chairs are Heidi and David Gerger,
Sultana and Moez Mangalji and Andrea and Bill White. Erica and Benjy Levit
serve as host committee chairs.
HMH created the LBJ Moral Courage Award in 1994,
in cooperation with the Johnson family. In 1938, as a young congressman,
Johnson stretched the limits of his authority and risked his personal dreams to
provide American sanctuary for threatened European Jews. It is because of these
acts of moral courage the museum named the award in his honor. The award
recognizes either a single righteous act or a lifetime of morally courageous
behavior.
Sparks, an American military commander of the
3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division of the United
States Army, was one of the first Allied forces to enter Dachau concentration
camp and liberate its 32,000 prisoners on April 29, 1945.
He took part in the Battle of Anzio, invasions
of Sicily and Provence, Battle of the Bulge and Battle of Aschaffenburg. His
unit saw 511 days of combat time in World War II. Sparks was a lieutenant
colonel when he led forces into Dachau, and just 27 years old. The museum
honors his service to our country, and his humanity and leadership during a war
filled with hatred, horrific violence and prejudice.
The New York Times bestselling author and World
War II historian, Alex Kershaw, serves as keynote in conversation with
Holocaust survivors Charles Kurt and Pinchas Gutter. Kershaw has written
several books about World War II, including “The Liberator,” which traces the
battlefield journey of Sparks through the Allied liberation of Europe – from
the first landing in Italy to the final death throes of the Third Reich.
Previous recipients of the Moral Courage Award
include George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States; Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.; Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel; activist and actress Mia
Farrow; U.S. Sen. John McCain; Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter
who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan; former U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell; former U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen Jr.; former U.S. Sen. Robert Dole;
filmmaker Steven Spielberg; and former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
To reserve a table or purchase individual
tickets, go to hmh.org/lbjdinner, call
713-527-1622 or email LBJDinner@hmh.org.
Phil Nelson on Lyndon
Johnson’s close ties to prominent Jews such as Arthur Krim and Abe Feinberg: https://books.google.com/books?id=k7VfBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT364&lpg=PT364&dq=J.+Edgar+Hoover+Dallas+Uranium+and+Oil+Company&source=bl&ots=3LQ7aJhK9E&sig=ACfU3U3y29hWkoXueMu4MPlsKgk5mNwVzg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZ_cOl1YfpAhVSIqwKHZTdCtgQ6AEwAXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=J.%20Edgar%20Hoover%20Dallas%20Uranium%20and%20Oil%20Company&f=false
LBJ Granddaughter: Now a Jew,
Married to Grandson of Concentration Camp Survivor, Sheds Light on “Operation
Texas”
By Center for Near East Policy Research, July 13, 2004
Claudia Taylor Brod never met her grandfather, Lyndon Baines
Johnson, the 36th president of the United States.
She inherited his legacy through history books, old family
photos and countless stories from her grandmother, Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson,
who is 91 and still lives on the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas.
Among the lessons handed down, Brod says, were a sense of
compassion and an obligation to give back to her community.
The youngest child of Luci Baines Johnson Turpin — President
Johnson’s youngest daughter — Brod, 28, says those lessons helped her realize
“that I was part of this family, part of this legacy and with that came a lot
of responsibility for what I had been given.”
Now Brod has begun to put those lessons into action at home in
Miami Beach, where she has lived since 2000.
Donated $10,000
To celebrate the birth of her first child in February, Brod and
her husband, Steven, donated $10,000, drawn from the Lyndon Johnson Family
Foundation, to the Holocaust Survivors Program run by Jewish Community
Services, a non-denominational agency for residents of Miami-Dade County. The
gift was made on behalf of Brod’s obstetrician, Dr. Steven Silvers, but her
interest in Judaism runs deep.
Brod, whose husband is the grandchild of Holocaust survivors,
converted to Judaism in 2003.
It was not easy to renounce Catholicism — “I went to mass every
Sunday until I turned 18,” she says — but Judaism “makes a little more sense to
me.
“I started to read about the Jewish faith and I was really taken
by it,” she says. “I related to its unity and its survival over thousands of
years.”
Though she does not keep kosher and generally goes to temple only
on holidays, Brod says she has embraced Judaism’s emphasis on family and
traditions.
“I love that you’re not supposed to answer the phone [on the
Sabbath] and that it gives you time to spend with family,” she says.
As a steward of the Johnson family legacy, Brod believes her
grandfather’s administration is disproportionately defined by President
Johnson’s ordering thousands of American troops to Vietnam and committing
America to major combat there.
“That kind of saddens me,” she says.
James Smallwood, a retired history professor at Oklahoma State
University, agrees that Vietnam overshadows Johnson’s populist agendas — the
War on Poverty and the Great Society — and the president’s leadership in
persuading Congress to pass landmark legislation such as the Civil Rights Act,
the Voter Act, the Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act, and the Open
Housing Law.
But there’s more about Johnson’s political career that remains
obscure, particularly “Operation Texas,” an allegedly covert program that
Smallwood says helped save dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Jews from the
Holocaust.
Smallwood purports that Johnson surreptitiously supplied
documents to a friend who then used those documents to help Jews flee Eastern
Europe and resettle in America.
‘Some things that Johnson did were definitely unorthodox if not
illegal,’ Smallwood says.
But no one has presented any evidence to support such an
allegation, says Claudia Anderson, an archivist with the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Library and Museum in Austin. Anderson traces the legend of “Operation Texas” to a speech given by a
prominent Jewish businessman in Austin, Jim Novy, during a dedication ceremony,
which Johnson attended, for a synagogue named Congregation Agudas Achim in
December 1963.
Helped Jews
In his dedication speech, which was recorded, Novy alleged that
in 1938 then-congressman Johnson had helped arrange — through letters and
telephone calls to ambassadors and immigration officials — for 42 Jewish
refugees from Germany and Poland to obtain visas to enter America.
Novy’s speech also claimed that in 1940 Johnson used his
political influence to skirt Texas law and help lodge Jewish refugees in state
youth camps.
But, Anderson says,
“there is absolutely no substantiation of that whatsoever.”
Anderson did, however, find evidence that Johnson wrote letters
to U.S. embassies in Eastern Europe, prior to World War II, that helped
expedite the immigration of Jewish refugees to America.
“I definitely believe Johnson helped Jewish people come into
this country by helping them cut red tape and immigration procedures,” Anderson
says.
Brod says she first learned of “Operation Texas” from her
mother. And though she does not remember the details of the story, she found it
to be “an act of moral courage” by her grandfather.
“He did some wonderful things as far as civil rights, as far as
education, but this one in particular was one I could relate to,” she says. “I
married someone who’s Jewish and then I became Jewish myself.”
It also cemented Brod’s conviction to carry on the family legacy
of civic involvement.
“My grandmother did conservation. My grandfather did education,”
she says. “I feel it’s my obligation…. The Jewish community is a good place to
start.”
“Bet the Ranch!” The Times of Israel by Richard
Chasman
Feb. 21, 2016
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/bet-the-ranch/
You can
bet the ranch that Bernie Sanders will not be elected as the first Jewish
president. But he might be the second. Who was the first halachically Jewish
president? LBJ — Lyndon Baines Johnson! I thank Rabbi Shmuel Goldin for making
me aware of this fascinating story.
Quoting
from the article by Morris Smith in the Five Towns Jewish Times, ‘Lyndon
Johnson’s maternal ancestors, the Huffmans, apparently migrated to Frederick,
Maryland from Germany sometime in the mid-eighteenth century. Later they moved
to Bourbon, Kentucky and eventually settled in Texas in the mid-to-late
nineteenth century. The facts indicate that both of Lyndon Johnson’s great-grandparents,
on the maternal side, were Jewish. These were the grandparents of Lyndon’s mother, Rebecca Baines. Their
names were John S. Huffman and Mary Elizabeth Perrin. John Huffman’s mother was
Suzanne Ament, a common Jewish name. Perrin is also a common Jewish name.
Huffman and Perrin had a daughter, Ruth Ament Huffman, who married Joseph
Baines and together they had a daughter, Rebekah Baines, Lyndon Johnson’s
mother. The line of Jewish mothers can be traced back three generations in
Lyndon Johnson’s family tree. There is little doubt that he was Jewish.’
That’s
not the whole story. We all know of Johnson as the outstanding president who
pushed through the voting rights act, the war on poverty and the Great Society
agenda. Many of us are aware of Johnson’s concern and help for Israel during
and after the 1967 war but few are aware of his helping Jewish refugees escape
from Germany and Poland in the 1930s. The article notes, ‘That
same year{1937}, LBJ warned Jewish friend, Jim Novy, that European Jews faced
annihilation. “Get as many Jewish people as possible out of Germany and
Poland,” were Johnson’s instructions. Somehow, Johnson provided him with a pile
of signed immigration papers that were used to get 42 Jews out of Warsaw. But
that wasn’t enough. According to historian James M. Smallwood, Congressman Johnson
used legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle “hundreds of Jews into
Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough money could buy false
passports and fake visas in Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American countries.
Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas. He hid them in
the Texas National Youth Administration. Johnson saved at least four or five
hundred Jews, possibly more.”’
The
Johnson story reminds us that taking in refugees can be a matter of life and
death. That should inform our attitudes toward the US taking in refugees today.
In the
Johnson presidential years, Israeli leaders understood the importance of
maintaining good relations with the president of the United States. PM
Netanyahu ignores this and acts as a Republican shill. He seems to be doubling
down and meddling in US politics again after his failure to stop the JCPOA. In
the Jerusalem Post of February 17, Gil Hoffman reports, ‘Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must reach an agreement with US President Barack Obama’s
administration on a new Memorandum of Understanding governing US military aid
to Israel as soon as possible, opposition leaders Isaac Herzog and Yair Lapid
told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations this
week.
https://www.jpost.com/features/a-friend-in-deed
A friend in deed
New evidence reveals incredible aid Lyndon Johnson lent the Jews.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2008 20:44
A
few weeks ago, the Associated Press reported that newly released tapes from US
president Lyndon Johnson's White House office showed LBJ's "personal and
often emotional connection to Israel." The news agency pointed out that
during the Johnson presidency (1963-1969), "the United States became
Israel's chief diplomatic ally and primary arms supplier." But the news
report does little to reveal the full historical extent of Johnson's actions on
behalf of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Most students of the
Arab-Israeli conflict can identify Johnson as the president during the 1967
war. But few know about LBJ's actions to rescue hundreds of endangered Jews
during the Holocaust - actions that could have thrown him out of Congress and
into jail. Indeed, the title of "Righteous Gentile" is certainly
appropriate in the case of the Texan, whose centennial year is being
commemorated this year. Appropriately enough, the annual Jerusalem Conference
announced this week that it will honor Johnson in February 2009. Historians
have revealed that Johnson, while serving as a young congressman in 1938 and
1939, arranged for visas to be supplied to Jews in Warsaw, and oversaw the
apparently illegal immigration of hundreds of Jews through the port of
Galveston, Texas. A key resource for uncovering LBJ's pro-Jewish activity is
the unpublished 1989 doctoral thesis by University of Texas student Louis
Gomolak, "Prologue: LBJ's Foreign Affairs Background, 1908-1948."
Johnson's activities were confirmed by other historians in interviews with his
wife, family members and political associates. Research into Johnson's personal
history indicates that he inherited his concern for the Jewish people from his
family. His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher, a major influence on LBJ, was a member
of the Zionist Organization of America. According to Gomolak, Aunt Jessie had
nurtured LBJ's commitment to befriending Jews for 50 years. As a young boy,
Lyndon watched his politically active grandfather "Big Sam" and
father "Little Sam" seek clemency for Leo Frank, the Jewish victim of
a blood libel in Atlanta. Frank was lynched by a mob in 1915, and the Ku Klux
Klan in Texas threatened to kill the Johnsons. The Johnsons later told friends
that Lyndon's family hid in their cellar while his father and uncles stood
guard with shotguns on their porch in case of KKK attacks. Johnson's
speechwriter later stated, "Johnson often cited Leo Frank's lynching as
the source of his opposition to both anti-Semitism and isolationism."
Already in 1934 - four years before Chamberlain's Munich sellout to Hitler -
Johnson was keenly alert to the dangers of Nazism and presented a book of
essays, Nazism: An Assault on Civilization, to the 21-year-old woman he
was courting, Claudia Taylor - later known as "Lady Bird" Johnson. It
was an incredible engagement present. FIVE DAYS after taking office in 1937,
LBJ broke with the "Dixiecrats" and supported an immigration bill
that would naturalize illegal aliens, mostly Jews from Lithuania and Poland. In
1938, Johnson was told of a young Austrian Jewish musician who was about to be
deported from the United States. With an element of subterfuge, LBJ sent him to
the US Consulate in Havana to obtain a residency permit. Erich Leinsdorf, the
world famous musician and conductor, credited LBJ for saving his live. That
same year, LBJ warned a Jewish friend, Jim Novy, that European Jews faced
annihilation. "Get as many Jewish people as possible out [of Germany and
Poland]," were Johnson's instructions. Somehow, Johnson provided him with
a pile of signed immigration papers that were used to get 42 Jews out of
Warsaw. But that wasn't enough. According to historian James M. Smallwood,
Congressman Johnson used legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle
"hundreds of Jews into Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough
money could buy false passports and fake visas in Cuba, Mexico and other Latin
American countries.... Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into
Texas. He hid them in the Texas National Youth Administration... Johnson saved
at least four or five hundred Jews, possibly more." During World War II
Johnson joined Novy at a small Austin gathering to sell $65,000 in war bonds.
According to Gomolak, Novy and Johnson then raised a very "substantial sum
for arms for Jewish underground fighters in Palestine." One source cited
by the historian reports that "Novy and Johnson had been secretly shipping
heavy crates labeled 'Texas Grapefruit' - but containing arms - to Jewish
underground 'freedom fighters' in Palestine." ON JUNE 4, 1945, Johnson
visited Dachau. According to Smallwood, Lady Bird later recalled that when her
husband returned home, "he was still shaken, stunned, terrorized and
bursting with an overpowering revulsion and incredulous horror at what he had
seen." A decade later while serving in the Senate, Johnson blocked the
Eisenhower administration's attempts to apply sanctions against Israel following
the 1956 Sinai Campaign. "The indefatigable Johnson had never ceased
pressure on the administration," wrote I.L. "Si" Kenen, the head
of AIPAC at the time. As Senate majority leader, Johnson consistently blocked
the anti-Israel initiatives of his fellow Democrat, William Fulbright, the
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Among Johnson's closest
advisers during this period were several strong pro-Israel advocates, including
Benjamin Cohen (who 30 years earlier was the liaison between Supreme Court
justice Louis Brandeis and Chaim Weizmann) and Abe Fortas, the legendary
Washington "insider." Johnson's concern for the Jewish people
continued through his presidency. Soon after taking office in the aftermath of
John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Johnson told an Israeli diplomat,
"You have lost a very great friend, but you have found a better one."
Just one month after succeeding Kennedy, LBJ attended the December 1963
dedication of the Agudas Achim Synagogue in Austin. Novy opened the ceremony by
saying to Johnson, "We can't thank him enough for all those Jews he got
out of Germany during the days of Hitler." Lady Bird would later describe
the day, according to Gomolak: "Person after person plucked at my sleeve
and said, 'I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for him. He helped me get
out.'" Lady Bird elaborated, "Jews had been woven into the warp and
woof of all [Lyndon's] years." THE PRELUDE to the 1967 war was a
terrifying period for Israel, with the US State Department led by the
historically unfriendly Dean Rusk urging an evenhanded policy despite Arab
threats and acts of aggression. Johnson held no such illusions. After the war
he placed the blame firmly on Egypt: "If
a
single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other, it
was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision [by Egypt] that the Strait
of Tiran would be closed [to Israeli ships and Israeli-bound cargo]."
Kennedy was the first president to approve the sale of defensive US weapons to
Israel, specifically Hawk anti-aircraft missiles. But Johnson approved tanks
and fighter jets, all vital after the 1967 war when France imposed a freeze on
sales to Israel. Yehuda Avner recently described on these pages prime minister
Levi Eshkol's successful appeal for these weapons on a visit to the LBJ ranch.
Israel won the 1967 war, and Johnson worked to make sure it also won the peace.
"I sure as hell want to be careful and not run out on little Israel,"
Johnson said in a March 1968 conversation with his ambassador to the United
Nations, Arthur Goldberg, according to White House tapes recently released.
Soon after the 1967 war, Soviet premier Aleksei Kosygin asked Johnson at the
Glassboro Summit why the US supported Israel when there were 80 million Arabs
and only three million Israelis. "Because it is right," responded the
straight-shooting Texan. The crafting of UN Resolution 242 in November 1967 was
done under Johnson's scrutiny. The call for "secure and recognized
boundaries" was critical. The American and British drafters of the
resolution opposed Israel returning all the territories captured in the war. In
September 1968, Johnson explained, "We are not the ones to say where other
nations should draw lines between
them
that will assure each the greatest security. It is clear, however, that a
return to the situation of 4 June 1967 will not bring peace. There must be
secure and there must be recognized borders. Some such lines must be agreed to
by the neighbors involved." Goldberg later noted, "Resolution 242 in
no way refers to Jerusalem, and this omission was deliberate." This
historic diplomacy was conducted under Johnson's stewardship, as Goldberg
related in oral history to the Johnson Library. "I must say for
Johnson," Goldberg stated. "He gave me great personal support."
Robert David Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn College, recently
wrote in The New York Sun, "Johnson's policies stemmed more from
personal concerns - his friendship with leading Zionists, his belief that
America had a moral obligation to bolster Israeli security and his conception
of Israel as a frontier land much like his home state of Texas. His personal
concerns led him to intervene when he felt that the State or Defense
departments had insufficiently appreciated Israel's diplomatic or military
needs." President Johnson firmly pointed American policy in a pro-Israel
direction. In a historical context, the American emergency airlift to Israel in
1973, the constant diplomatic support, the economic and military assistance and
the strategic bonds between the two countries can all be credited to the seeds
planted by LBJ. The writer served as deputy chief of mission of the Israeli
Embassy in Washington. Today, an international consultant, he blogs at www.lennybendavid.com.
Excellent Philip Weiss article on Mathilde Krim and her sway
over Lyndon Johnson: https://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/secret-life-mathilde/
Kennedy, the Lobby and the Bomb
by Laurent Guyénot
https://www.voltairenet.org/article178401.html
Lewis Gould on Lyndon Johnson’s
pro-Israel stance in the Suez crisis of 1956
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-28-bk-gould28-story.html
“The Gentleman From Texas,” Lewis Gould, LA Times, April 28,
2002
QUOTE
Caro is also silent about the
substance of the Suez crisis of 1956 and Johnson’s pro-Israel stance at that
time. One of the most interesting revelations regarding Johnson during the last
two decades has been about his efforts in the 1930s and 1940s on behalf of Jews
seeking to escape the Nazis. Working with Jewish leaders in the Austin area,
Johnson went well beyond other American politicians in his efforts to enable
Jews to enter the United States.
Scholars have been exploring the
leads in this area first developed by Louis Gomolak, a graduate student at the
University of Texas, in his 1989 dissertation. Caro does not examine this
subject in analyzing Johnson’s compassion, his views on world affairs or the
historical roots of his presidential policies toward Israel during the 1960s
UNQUOTE
Lyndon
Johnson Was Scheduled To Visit My Austin Shul the Day After Kennedy Died
But in December 1963, the new president made up
the date, honoring a long Jewish friendship
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/lyndon-johnson-november-1963
On Nov. 22, 1963, the women of the Congregation Agudas
Achim Sisterhood in Austin, Texas, were working in their new kosher kitchen,
mixing potato salad for the several hundred people expected to turn up at the
dedication of their new synagogue the next day—a group that was to include Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson, formerly the congregation’s longtime congressman.
The women didn’t have enough mixing bowls, so they wound up using the
synagogue’s brand-new plastic trashcans to prepare the potato salad, a detail
their honored guest would never need to know.
Of
course, Johnson never made it to Austin. Instead of holding a joyous
celebration, the congregants gathered to mourn the death of John F. Kennedy and
pray for their old friend Lyndon, who had just been sworn in as president on
Air Force One, standing next to the blood-spattered and shocked former First
Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. No one expected that he would reschedule his
visit—but, ever the consummate politician, Johnson decided to keep his promise,
and on Dec. 28, the new president arrived at the new Agudas Achim building.
The
synagogue owed its new location on Bull Creek to Johnson’s intercession in a
real-estate deal. It’s highly probable that no American president has ever been
as intimately involved in the construction of a shul as Johnson was in this
one. In October 1963, as vice president, he loaned his Lincoln Continental
convertible to congregant Morris Shapiro, who drove the Torah scrolls the three
or four miles from Congregation Agudas Achim’s downtown location to its new
suburban home amid a parade of marching Jews.
The connection between Johnson
and Agudas Achim was Jim Novy, a
Polish-born immigrant who wound up in Texas under the Galveston Plan and made a
small fortune in scrap metal. One of Johnson’s earliest political allies in
Austin, Novy, pillar of Austin’s Orthodox congregation, was instrumental in
building the synagogue. For many Austin Jews, their relationship with Johnson
had been so close that he was almost too familiar; Milton Simons, who was
Agudas Achim’s president in the autumn of 1963, recalled that some of the
congregants knew the vice president so well they refused to pay to hear him
speak at the synagogue dedication.
The assassination changed that:
When the dedication was rescheduled, a gully wash of people from all over the
country wanted in, offering what Simons described as “enough money to pay the
mortgage,” just to come to Austin to hear the new president talk to the Jews.
In the end, it was Novy who kept the strangers out: As far as he was concerned,
Austin Jews were LBJ’s Jews, and even “the people too cheap to buy tickets,” in
Simons’ estimation, should be there to hear the new president’s first
non-official public remarks as president.
I first encountered the story
of the synagogue dedication in 1988, while writing a book about
Texas Jews. In 2000, when Agudas Achim moved to its current location at the
Dell Jewish Community Campus, I volunteered to produce a video to mark the
occasion and interviewed congregants who attended the 1963 event, many of whom
have since passed away.
***
Johnson had a special place in
his heart for Jim Novy. Their relationship likely began in the early 1930s,
when Lyndon worked as secretary and go-to man for Rep. Richard Kleberg, a
member of the King ranching family who preferred polo to politics and gave
Johnson wide berth. He became a regular presence at meetings of the B’nai
B’rith Lodge and Zionist groups. It’s not clear whether Novy made his way to
Washington to advocate for Zionist causes, as his daughter Elaine Shapiro
believes, or to sell scrap metal to the federal government, as a distant
cousin, Benard Laves, told me, but either way, he returned with a lifelong
friend.
When
Johnson moved back to Austin in 1935 to serve as Texas director of the National
Youth Corps, he set up his office at 6th Street and Congress Avenue, at what
was then the intersection between high-end Austin and the Jewish-owned schmatte
stores along 6th Street. When it was time to raise funds to support Johnson’s
first run for Congress, in 1937, the B’nai Brith members and Zionist activists
Johnson met at Novy’s lake lodge.
Laves, a
born raconteur, remembered walking up 6th toward Congress as a child with his
father. He spotted Johnson and wanted to meet him, but his father cautioned,
“Just let Lyndon alone to do his thing.” That day, LBJ walked with Jake Pickle,
the advertising man who would eventually succeed him as representative of the
Tenth District. Jake called to Benard’s father, “Hey, Louie!” He escorted LBJ
across the street to greet them. “This great big tall guy, I’m a little kid
looking up at him, this terrible look on his face, meaner than hell,” Laves
recalled to me in 2009. (He died earlier this year.) “And all of a sudden he
smiled, and it was like the sun coming out from behind a cloud.”
Johnson’s constituents in the
10th District included all kinds of minorities: blacks, Mexicans, and
immigrants from dirt farms who spoke English, Spanish, Czech, German, and
Yiddish. It was a time, as Johnson recounted to the congregation in December
1963, when newspapers were published in a dozen languages to serve Austin’s
many immigrants. The vast majority of Austin’s Jews were Democrats, and when
Austin’s Jews were troubled about something or needed help, Johnson answered
their calls and got results.
But it was his strong and
enduring relationship with Novy that led to a sweetheart land deal in the early
1960s by which Congregation Agudas Achim sold its downtown building to the
federal government and then applied the proceeds to land along the Missouri
Pacific railroad easements that ran through the new suburbs of north Austin.
Today, Austin’s Federal Building stands at the site of the old synagogue.
Continue reading: “I said I would be there”
Early one morning after
the sh’loshim for
Kennedy were over, Novy received a call from President Johnson. “He told Daddy,
‘I said I would be there, and I’m going to be there,’” Elaine Shapiro said.
With only a week’s notice, the members of Congregation Agudas Achim hustled
once again to prepare. The shul’s decorations committee set the stage for the
possibility that there might be television cameras in attendance. The
Sisterhood catering team thawed out the barbecue and remade the potato salad
and Jell-O mold. Shirley Rubinett remembered that the Secret Service sent
taste-testers, and the president was supposed to eat only what they approved.
But, in the end, she told me, “He ate whatever he wanted, he gobbled it down,
he was hungry.”
Almost every person I spoke
with said the most memorable image of the evening was entering the synagogue
vestibule and seeing a red telephone on the table—a cultural icon preserved in
the congregants’ collective memory as the infamous “red phone” connecting
Washington and Moscow, though it could not have been. Ann and Saul Ginsburg’s
son, David, played “Hail to the Chief” on the Spinet piano. The suave and
articulate Dr. Polsky emceed the evening, and Jim Novy introduced the president
with a litany of stories of all the times Johnson had helped him and the Jews.
“I’ve always called on President Johnson to give us a help,” Novy told the
crowd. “And there was never a time that I asked the president that he wouldn’t
take care of Jewish problems.” In fact, Novy’s introduction that night is what
gave rise to the persistent Internet rumors that Johnson was a righteous
gentile who saved hundreds of Jewish lives before and during WWII, though
exhaustive searches by Johnson Library archivist Claudia Anderson have turned
up no primary-source proof to substantiate the rumors.
After the community poured out its affection, President
Johnson rose to speak. In
his remarks—captured on a 33 1/3 LP for congregants to keep as a souvenir—he
revealed the reciprocity of the trust and respect he felt, as well as the
strength he drew from them. He combined a tribute to his home community and the
Jewish people with remarks that foreshadowed his War on Poverty, which we
Texans chose to hold in our memories in a more elevated place than the missteps
in Vietnam that ultimately doomed his leadership. And he offered his personal
tribute to Jim Novy: “If we have leaders like this good man who has spent so
many of his hours in the years past trying to build temples like this, temples
where men can worship, temples where justice reigns, temples where the free are
welcome, temples where the dignity of man prevails, then America will truly be
worthy of the leadership we claim, and the rest of the world will follow us
where we lead.”
When Novy
died, in 1971, Johnson—by then out of the White House and back in Texas—sat
alone in the back of the sanctuary, without Secret Service or aides or
hangers-on, wearing a kippah. Shortly after, Johnson also died of heart
disease. It would seem that the partnership forged by the two men and the
benefits yielded to Congregation Agudas Achim had come to an end. But there is
a postscript to this story: During the later years of the Johnson presidency,
Encyclopedia Judaica approached Jim Novy to see if he could persuade the president
to help fund them. Through Novy’s influence, they were able to obtain an
interest-free $2 million loan to conduct the research needed to replace the old
Jewish Encyclopedia with a version that reflected both the Holocaust and the
birth of the State of Israel. In return for the favor, Novy asked for 100 sets
of encyclopedias to sell as a fundraiser. The proceeds arrived after the deaths
of both Johnson and Novy, but Dr. Byron Smith, another former shul president,
hoarded the money and hid it from anyone who wanted to use it to pay for
day-to-day operations to pay down the Bull Creek mortgage, years in advance.
We Texas
Jews just loved LBJ. It wasn’t just that he helped Austin Jews build a shul or
that so many of us benefited from the “kosher pork” Johnson brought home. (My
father was a chemical engineer who worked to make solid rocket fuel to be sold
to NASA.) I remember how, on the day Johnson was inaugurated in 1965, my father
proudly pointed to Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel of Houston standing right there
next to the president of the United States. To have my grandparents’ rabbi make
the invocation gave a 10-year-old Jewish girl from Waco a sense of belonging. A
few years later, in 1971—the year Jim Novy died—I attended a youth gathering at
the Religious Action Center in Washington, D.C., and for the first time heard
my peers characterizing LBJ as a warmongering ignoramus with a drawl. To this
day I hear the echo of my kishkes: Didn’t they know? Didn’t they know that LBJ
was one of us?
ditor’s note: This story has
been updated to reflect that President Johnson was not, in fact, the first
sitting American president to dedicate a synagogue. That honor belongs to President Ulysses S. Grant, who attended the dedication of
Washington’s Adas Israel in 1876.
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Cathy Schechter lives in
Austin. She is the co-author of Deep in the Heart: The Lives
and Legends of Texas Jews, and wrote the first article
about Austin for the Encyclopedia Judaica. She is at work on a novel.
“Operation Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Jewish Question and the Nazi
Holocaust,” James Smallwood, East Texas Historical Journal, Volume 50, Issue 2,
Article 12.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2673&context=ethj
Article about Lyndon
Johnson helping European Jews escape the clutches of Nazi Germany
Mathilde Krim (1926-2018): Ardent Zionist
Who Influenced LBJ During Six-Day War
JANET MCMAHON
HITS: 5415
Dr. Mathilde Krim and Harvey Weinstein arrive for an AmfAR Charity Event
at the Le Moulin de Mougins during the 56th International Cannes Film Festival
on May 22, 2003 in Cannes, France. At a gala for the Jewish magazine
Algemeiner in September 2017—two months before the sexual misconduct scandal
broke—Weinstein said, “I’m an Israeli in my heart and mind. I love that
country, I love what it stands for.” (STEVE FINN/GETTY IMAGES)
By Janet McMahon
THE VAST MAJORITY of
mainstream obituaries for Mathilde Krim, a founding chairman of The Foundation
for AIDS Research, or amfAR, who died Jan. 15 at her home on Long Island, New
York at the age of 91, identified her as an AIDS activist: The New York Times, for example,
described her as a “Mobilizing Force in an AIDS Crusade,” while The Washington Post deemed her a
“Scientist Turned Activist Who Helped Strip AIDS of Its Stigma.”
As longtime Washington Report readers are
aware, however, before Krim was an activist for AIDS patients, she was an
“activist”—and a very influential one—for Israel.
According to The New York Times, Krim “was born
Mathilde Galland in Como, Italy, on July 9, 1926, to Eugene Galland, a
Swiss-Italian, and the former Elizabeth Krause, an Austrian. Her father was an
agronomist. The family moved to Geneva when Mathilde was 6.
“At the University of Geneva, Mathilde
was a brilliant student of biology and genetics. Appalled by newsreels of Nazi
concentration camps in 1945, she sought out Jewish activists, joined the
Zionist underground Irgun and spent a summer smuggling guns over the French
border for resistance [sic]
fighters against British rule in Palestine.”
In an article in the June
1993 Washington Report,
however, author Grace Halsell described Krim’s adventures differently:
“While a student in Geneva, she fell in
love with a young Bulgarian Jew, David Danon, who had been brought up in
Palestine and exiled by the British for his association with the Irgun Zvai
Leumi, a Jewish terrorist group led by Menachem Begin. Danon was studying to
become a medical doctor, but spent most of his time recruiting and carrying out
secret Irgun operations throughout Western Europe.…
“Mathilde became so enamored of the
Jewish struggle and of Danon’s daring undercover operations in Europe that she
converted to Judaism and married Danon. Then she, too, became an Irgun agent.”
As Donald Neff reported in his article
“Hamas: A Pale Image of the Jewish Irgun and Lehi Gangs” (see May/June 2006 Washington Report, p. 14): “The
Irgun was led by Menachem Begin, the future Israeli prime minister…[It] was the
dominant Jewish terrorist organization, both in size and the number and
frequency of its attacks. Its most spectacular feat up to this time had been
the July 22, 1946 blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, with the
killing of 91 people—41 Arabs, 28 British and 17 Jews.”
In 1953, after Krim received her
doctorate, the couple emigrated to Israel. In 1954 Krim joined a research team
at the Weizmann Institute of Science. After the birth of their daughter,
however, the marriage ended in divorce. In 1958 Krim married entertainment
lawyer Arthur B. Krim, a Weizmann trustee whom Neff described as “president of United Artists Corporation
of Hollywood, a New York attorney and another major Democratic fund-raiser. He
served as chairman of the Democratic National Party Finance Committee and
chairman of the President’s Club of New York, the most potent source of
[President Lyndon B.] Johnson’s campaign funds.” (See Nov./Dec. 1996 Washington
Report, p.
96.)
The Krims moved from Israel to New York
the following year.
Fast forward to 1967. According to
Neff—who interviewed Krim for his book Warriors
for Jerusalem: The Six Days That Changed the Middle East (available
from AET’s Middle East Books and More)—“Mathilde Krim stayed at the White House
during much of the 1967 war and was a regular caller at the Israeli Embassy,
passing reports and gossip back and forth. The Krims, like other Johnson
friends, did not hesitate to advise the president on Middle East policy.”
In her June 1993 article, Halsell
recalled that, as a staff writer at the Johnson White House, “On occasion I saw
a strikingly attractive blonde woman who, I learned, was an ardent supporter of
Israel and a woman of whom the president was fond.”
That woman was Mathilde Krim.
“LBJ often invited the Krims to his Texas
ranch,” Halsell wrote. “There also were many instances in which Arthur and
Mathilde were guests at the White House, and other times when, for many days
running, Mathilde—without her husband—was a guest there. The Krims built a
house near the LBJ ranch known as Mathilde’s house, and Johnson often traveled
there by helicopter.”
Having spent the 1967 Memorial Day
weekend with the Krims at his ranch, Halsell continued:
“On June 3, Johnson traveled to New York
to deliver a speech at a Democratic Party fund-raising dinner. He moved on to a
$1,000-a-plate dinner dance, sponsored by the President’s Club of New York,
whose chairman was Arthur Krim. While at the table, fund-raiser Abe Feinberg
leaned over the shoulder of Mathilde Krim, seated next to Johnson, and
whispered: ‘Mr. President, it [Israel’s attack] can’t be held any longer. It’s
going to be within the next 24 hours.’
“On June 4, Johnson went to the home of
his close adviser and friend, Justice Abe Fortas. The following day, June 5,
[Special Assistant for National Security Affairs Walt] Rostow woke Johnson with
a phone call at 4:30 a.m. ‘War has broken out,’ Rostow said. The Israelis had
attacked Egypt and Syria.
“Mathilde Krim was a guest at the White
House and, before going to the Oval Office, and apparently before waking Lady
Bird or notifying anyone else, Johnson dropped by the bedroom where Mathilde
was sleeping and gave her the news: ‘The war has started.’…
“[O]n June 5, Arthur Krim wrote a memo to
the president saying: ‘Many arms shipments are packed and ready to go to
Israel, but are being held up. It would be helpful if these could be released.’
Johnson got the shipments on their way.…
“Mathilde Krim, still a guest in the
White House, left for meetings in New York. Before departing, however, she
wrote out a statement supportive of Israel which she asked the president to
deliver ‘verbatim to the American people.’ Johnson was sufficiently impressed
with her comments to, later in the day, read some of them to Secretary of State
Dean Rusk. But the president did not, as she had asked, read them to the
American people.…
“Meanwhile, on the night of June 7, the
USS Liberty, a
Navy ‘ferret’ ship equipped to monitor electronic communications, had approached
within sight of the Gaza Strip so the National Security Agency personnel aboard
could intercept the military communications jamming the airwaves. The president
retired at 11:30 p.m., but White House logs reported that at one minute to
midnight he got a call from Mathilde Krim, still in New York.”
The next day Israel attacked the USS Liberty, killing 34 Americans and
wounding 171.
According to Neff’s 1996 account: “How
influential the Krims were in forming Johnson’s Middle East policy was hinted
at by notes in the president’s daily diary for June 17, 1967. The notes
reported that at a dinner with the Krims and others at Camp David, Johnson
openly discussed a speech he was working on that was to establish the nation’s
Middle East policy for the years ahead.
“According to the notes, Johnson read
from various drafts of the speech around the dinner table, ‘inserting additions
and making changes, also accepting comments and suggestions from all at the
table.’ Thus two passionate partisans of Israel, the Krims, helped Johnson
refine what was later called the “five great principles of peace,” the pillars
of U.S. policy in the Middle East for the next two decades.”
Janet McMahon is managing editor of
the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
Lyndon Johnson hosted a lunch for the motion-picture
industry on June 26, 1968 at the White House
[Connie Bruck, When Hollywood had a King: The Reign of
Lew Wasserman Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence, p. 212]
LBJ’s guests were:
Lew Wasserman – Jewish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Wasserman
Robert Benjamin, who was Arthur Krim’s partner – Jewish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Benjamin
Arthur Krim -Jewish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_B._Krim Historian
Michael Gillette called Krim – “LBJ’s best friend in the White House”
David Brown – later produced the film Jaws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brown_(producer)
Leo Jaffe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Jaffe later
chairman of Columbia Pictures. A Hollywood Deal Maker https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/21/business/leo-jaffe-hollywood-deal-maker-dies-at-88.html Leo
Jaffe was Jewish - https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Leo_Jaffe
Obituary - https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-08-22-9708220195-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-21-me-24636-story.html
QUOTE
He twice received the Silver
Medal of Honor from New York City mayors for his humanitarian efforts, and was
elected to the board of fellows of Brandeis University for his efforts to start
a motion picture and theater arts program there. In 1966, Jaffe earned the
Humanitarian Award from the national March of Dimes; in 1969, the Brotherhood
Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and in 1979, the Jean
Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts and
Sciences.
UNQUOTE
Benjamin Melniker – Jewish https://forward.com/culture/395583/the-mensch-behind-batman-dies-at-104/ “The
Mensch Behind ‘Batman’ Dies at 104.
QUOTE
Uslan
wrote in a Facebook reminiscence that Melniker was no less
serious, refusing to write his memoirs out of a sense of personal
responsibility. Although he knew where all the skeletons of Old Hollywood were
buried, Melniker did not want to “negatively impact those people, their
children or their grandchildren,” Uslan observes, concluding: “Ben was a
mensch.” A brilliant legally-minded mensch, one might add. Due to his role a
confidential negotiator, Melniker doubtless felt it would be inappropriate to
divulge insider gossip in a tell-all. Although Hollywood history has been
preserved by yentas, discretion was the better part of valor for Melniker, born
in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1913. He was entirely more forthcoming when doing the
hondling.
Uslan’s autobiography, recalls that even before
their first Batman movie was greenlighted, he worked with Melniker to revive
another DC Comics character, Swamp Thing, in a 1982 film directed by Wes Craven. Uslan and Craven
watched in awe as Melniker, then almost 70, took charge of negotiations at an
LA restaurant table, “occasionally resorting to speaking Yiddish.” Melniker’s
reputation as a relentless negotiator at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, which
hired him in 1939, led to his being nicknamed the MGM Lion. H
UNQUOTE
Louis Nizer – Jewish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Nizer
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