Word: lbj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, the Massachusetts party remained sympathetic, but uncommitted, to the Party right through the convention week. Certainly LBJ's hostility to the FDP contributed to the ambivalence, but simple ignorance among Massachusetts delegates also played a part. At any moment, the FDP could have mobilized Boston's many civil rights groups into a concerted lobbying organization. But word never came from Jackson, and many Massachusetts delegates didn't learn the details of the issue until convention week, when hoopla and gossip precluded careful consideration of the question...
...KTBC operation was first named the Texas Broadcasting Corp., renamed the LBJ Co., then changed back to Texas Broadcasting after Johnson became President. It has expanded considerably, now includes real estate holdings and shares in other broadcasting companies. In 1954, when Lyndon was Senate minority leader, the Johnsons bought KANG, a foundering UHF (ultrahigh frequency) television station in Waco. The FCC had just given a VHF license to a proposed Waco TV outlet, KWTX. CBS, which had been negotiating with KWTX, quickly decided to award its contract to KANG instead. Shortly thereafter, so did ABC. Then, with FCC approval...
...rulings-in Texas or anywhere else. Said one FCC man recently: "I've never once had anybody pressure me on behalf of Lyndon Johnson. The pressure there is an obvious one, though. It simply stems from the position occupied, particularly when you have a company named the LBJ Co." A longtime KTBC employee recalled a meeting of the station's department heads in Austin. Said he: "Both the Johnsons were there. Mrs. Johnson asked a few questions and made observations. After about 30 minutes, Johnson began talking. It was all business about the station...
...longtime friend and now principal trustee of the President's financial interests,* says that no Johnson family member has a direct interest in the company. Yet an example of Brazos-Tenth's complicated intertwining with the Johnsons turned up in early 1962. On Feb. 1 the LBJ Co. sold some subdivided lots to Brazos-Tenth. The deed was signed by J. C. Kellam, president of the LBJ Co., and by Donald Thomas, the LBJ Co. secretary. Before the day was over, essentially the same real estate package was sold by Brazos-Tenth to Lyndon Johnson himself. Again Donald...
While De Gaulle was taking Gaullism to the Mexicans and President Johnson was putting the LBJ brand on U.S. Latin American policy (see THE NATION), one of the most intensive examinations of hemisphere problems in years went on behind closed doors in Washington last week. All 17 U.S. ambassadors and 19 aid-mission officials were summoned from their posts south of the border for three days of shirtsleeve discussions that ranged from economic and political problems of the Alliance for Progress to rising Latin American nationalism. On the third anniversary of the Alliance, diplomats accredited to the Organization of American...