LBJ's Deadly Mistake
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2024
- Bill reveals the incalculable costs incurred when President Lyndon Johnson escalated the Vietnam War. .
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It is not a mistake when Johnson sent troops to Vietnam intentionally to benefit the military industrial complex and oil companies.
LBJ was the reason I am not a democrat today. I recognized the evil and lies at an early age.
Fair enough, but are you a Republican though?
Does this ring a bell with the bush boys sending our troops to the Middle East for meaningless wars, and Donald Trump inciting an insurrection. Should make you think about being a Democrat again.
Dang right!
Pure evil.
Well done!
He didn’t care. Johnson replaced you with N words who would vote D the next hundred years.
LBJ, a disaster we're still paying for.
in every way
O'Reilly to the contrary notwithstanding, the Kennedys bear their share of blame for Vietnam. I'm not a huge fan of LBJ but he did a great job in passing the Civil Rights Bill of '65. Probably a better job than JFK would have done.
LBJ was undoubtedly the worst US President of the 20th century. Vietnam, Immigration Act of 1965, the structural deficits we’ve been running for decades now have their genesis from the policies put forth during his administration. I don’t think it’s entirely coincidental that the decline of the US really started under his watch.
He was in on the JFK assassination.
Your absolutely right as i was born on the tail end of Eisenhower's term 59'
LBJ wealth was $400K at beginning of his term. $14 million at the end. Military made him a lot of coin
Same as Bush and Cheney with Iraq.
@@biker1958 Don't forget Slick Willy, OBozo and Joey.
his wife was worth way, way more than that.
This did not include his wife's net worth. She was worth 3 million dollars when he took office, and she was worth 27 million when Johnson left office. Most of her wealth
came from Sealand Container shipments of everything that went in and out of
Vietnam. Plus, she owned Flying Tiger Airlines.
Bingo someone gets it.
I’ve seen pictures of Johnson looking at Kennedy like he absolutely hated him. Never cared for Johnson. Many of my classmates died for no good reason.
IDK if you have ever seen the video of the dinner the night before the assassination ,,, JFK gets up to speak and Johnson is there looking at him up and down , with a slight look of sadness, almost like he was taking his last look , knowing that JFK won't be around the next evening....
also, there is the photo on the plane after LBJ takes the oath of office and he's exchanging winks with one of his supporters.....rather odd, under the circumstances.
Go read a book; JFK got us in to Vietnam
You are right. LBJ hated him
Johnson played a key role in Kennedys death as Johnson was as ruthless as any Mafia Boss.
I remember my dad, who was in the Army at the time, making a comment about LBJ, he said, "That SOB!"
Your Dad was too kind.
Not sure how he left JFK out
JFK said to the journalist Charles Bartlett in April of 1963 "we haven't a prayer of prevailing there (Vietnam) but I can't give up a piece of territory like that to the Communists and get the American people to reelect me".
In the spring of 63 he told Mike Mansfield that the only reason he kept us in Vietnam was his stake in a sixty-four election he said "I can't pull out until 1965 until after I'm reelected"
My Father a Korean Veteran said the exact same thing. I enlisted at 17 on my 3 wk mark in Dec/76 and now retired USAF Veteran/Civil Service more than 30 years❤
" BEWARE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX". DDE.
Still holds true today.
He had it right. Jenny
I disagree here because we do not have a Commander in Chief nor does he have the backing of the great military staff or agencies like was available to LBJ at that time comparably. Todays Leaders leave ours behind and do not care about you. It is all about their own greed to wealth and power they want to maintain at any cost to you.😮
Jo is making up with 2 since last administration started none
The same people who killed JFK are running the government today....
My husband went to a small Catholic Boys high school. Five boys in his graduating class were killed in Vietnam. My brother and several of his friends joined the Navy. Irony the rich kids of politicians with college exemptions who spat on returning Vietnam vets are either making the laws financing endless wars or are leading the on campus anti semitic riots today.
Amen. Truer words were never spoken. I endorse your message a Thousand percent.
@@travissloan6864 Baloney! The soldier-spitters were just anti-war hippies, not rich politician's kids. You are a leftist who has lost your mind.
I love the Jews, but I hate the government of Israel . Am I an anti-semite ?
I guess they're what we could call *"the ruling class bureaucracy"* far away, on the other side of the tracks.
The same people who killed JFK are running the government today
Don’t forget LBJs. “great society” blunder as well!
That was an evil and deliberate plan ( many elite liberals are not aware of ) to dissolve the backbone of the Black family ( no man was allowed in the home in order to collect welfare )..
That was not a blunder. It was a plan and strategy to increase the percentage of the population that would come to rely on the government to "solve" their problems.
"I'll have those n*****s voting Democrat for the next two hundred years." -- _LBJ_
Yes!..we are STILL feeling the after affects of that to this day.!!
The man was pure evil
LBJ WAS the deadly mistake!
Yep, ask JFK
Hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today anybody else remember this
@@Jeff-sl8xzYep
LBJ knew exactly what he was doing. Building the military industrial complex, along with Robert McNamara. Human lives meant nothing to them.
I had 3 friends die for nothing in Vietnam...
@@MichaelForte-jn5pnI’m sorry 😞
LBJ was also leading black Americans into economic slavery to the Democrat party with the welfare program he designed.
Vietnam was not Johnson's only mistake! His war on poverty is still a thorn in our side today.
And poverty has kicked ass!
Johnson would do anything to become President.
Including, shall we say, removing the competition.
You mean Biden !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@user-vl8qw8hp1g Dont Forget the old lady bird, follow the money
Just like biden.
Nixon literally said as much about LBJ. _"He and I both desperately wanted to become president... But I wasn't prepared to kill for it"_
Lyndon Johnson was two things: my commander-in-chief and one of the worst Presidents in American history.
@Watermain: Only topped by Carter & Biden!
Texas is not known for good presidents
And to make matters worse, didn't he move Social Security over to the general revenue fund to pay for this war.
This has been the continued downfall of the Social Security every since.
Yes , and as far as I know , their still taking it !
@@charleslee4204They are and they are replacing the money removed from Social Security with government bonds that probably won't be redeemable when we need them.
I heard that general westmoreland plan to defeat north Vietnam was to kill so many they would quit. It’s like we didn’t fight the Japanese in ww2 and understand we had to drop two nukes…
Yes, to finance the Vietnam War.
Dems buy our money.
We lost our cousin in Vietnam Nam. He had Two weeks left to serve.
We were in the planning stages of his welcome home party..
We were in our living room on Sunday evening watching Walt Disney World and the phone rang. I was 10 years old but remember this vividly.
My poor cousin and my poor aunt.. she was never the same.
LBJ was just like Joe Biden
Same political cloth too.
@davidcarter8119. LBJ was evil in a deliberate sense. Biden knows little of what he's doing because he takes orders from BHO.
Well "sorta"... LBJ was always aware of his evil actions, Biden is evil and senile ( also has "handlers" pushing the agenda )..
Joe Biden is LBJ 2.0 . So many similarities in how the shadow government is using or has used them!
I hate Joe Biden's guts but he at least displays some semblance of humanity within him. I cannot say the same thing about Johnson. He was an evil, heartless man. Just a monster 👹
Johnson was a monster. Too many people don’t know what he did to get us into Vietnam. Thanks for informing people
LBJ was a huge racist,
And now we have another one like him sitting in the WH😉
Don’t vote for me, then you ain’t black 🍦🧟♂️😤
Johnson was.
A huge.
“””’() Racist ()‘“””
Johnson was.
A huge.
(R) “acist”
@@patrickhayes6425 democrat too!
Mister maybe. It was Kennedy who first put us in Vietnam and RFK admitted it back in the 1960s , so did Ted. Let’s keep it 100
It made Johnson millions
Bill-LBJ should have taken the advice of a very, very famous person who once said. “ Always be nice to those people you meet on the way up, because you will probably meet those very same people on the way back down. “
My father was in the Philippines in WW11.
He was very angry when Trumanfired MacArthur and said something about Tthere would never have been a VietNam if Truman had let MacArthur proceed as he wanted to.
@@ellenmelius7807 At the end of WW2 Ho Chi Minh wanted to come right into the American camp. The north Vietnam constitution was patterned after the American constitution. Minh wanted some of the military surplus being dumped in the ocean at the time. But American officials would not listen to him, they were trying to woo De Gaulle into NATO and De Gaulle wanted to restore the French colonial empire including Vietnam. So the US backed the French in vietnam, who skipped out in 1954 and left them holding the bag.
@@ellenmelius7807World War eleven? We're not there, yet!
"It gives me a heavy heart but I have to send another 100,000 men to Vietnam". I was one of them.
Welcome back, Sir… and THANK YOU for your service.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service...ur a great American
Vote for Trump to keep us out of these useless foreign wars.
His mistake was politics and power. It was the country’s mistake, too.
General Douglas MacArthur once said, "Never get involved in a war in Southeast Asia." Furthermore, “Anyone wanting to commit ground troops to Asia should have his head examined,” Kennedy wrote of MacArthur’s advice. So, how did that Dominio Theory work out?
General Douglas MacArthur famously stated before Congress that the Chinese WOULD NOT become involved in the Korean War, so his credibility is somewhat questionable.
@@user-vl8qw8hp1g Correct and in spite of that the Chinese was involved in Vietnam.
@@user-vl8qw8hp1g How is that possible? MacArthur did not set foot in the United States, except for Hawaii, between 1937 and 1951. The Chinese officially notified our State Department twice in 1950 to withdraw behind the pre-war line, but were ignored. Truman and the UN ordered MacArthur north of the 38 parallel, BTW.
@@LanceStoddardNews flash there Lance, HI wasn't even a state in '51 and didn't become one until August, 1959.
@@skipperclinton1087 It was a territory of the United States, and he met President Roosevelt there for a meeting. Hawaii was considered part of the United States after 1900, even though it was not a State.
LBJ-wicked
And he was neck deep in JFK's assassination.
Funny thing that LBJ passed on just when the Vietnam War was coming to a close. His heart and his entire health fell over a steep cliff. Lyndon almost wrecked America's economy.
Thats the million dollar question; “for what?”!
What do you expect LBJ was a democrat
Of course Johnson didn't have a plan, but his handlers (the military industrial complex) sure had one!
Ladybird's companies had the plan
They weren't just his "handlers", they were Kennedy's also
@trajan75 when JFK issued NSAM 263 wanting to withdraw US involvement in Vietnam by 1965 he signed his death warrant...
I've always wondered about that. Goldwater was an Air Force General and would seemingly the better choice in '64 for the Mil/Ind. complex. But LBJ won then immediately began bombing in December of '64 in Laos.
@@MichaelForte-jn5pn Kennedy had plans to kill Castro. Oswald had ties to Castro. The leftists in the US government used the CIA or the Mafia as a red herring to shift the blame from Castro or his sympathizers, and protect. Seems more logical to me.
Kennedy was certain to have Johnson off the ticket in 1964
If this is a true statement he sure does paint a different picture about the assassination
LBJ was days away from being charged and arrested for all his crimes by the AG (Robert Kennedy). He had a choice to make, go to prison or become President!
LBJ was certain to have JFK off the ticket in '64!
LBJ s sidekick, Humphrey was a toad and worm. He was only worth about a quarter of a million when he went into office. By the time he left, he was a Multi Millionaire. He owned a small trucking company and obtained lots of jobs sending stuff over there. During one of the State of the Union Addresses, he was sitting behind LBJ and wasn't quite in the picture. He started sliding in his chair, to get his toad face in the picture! The producer changed to another angle and Humphrey the worm, started sliding back to get in the picture. Total sleeze bag.
@thomasharrold: Same deal with Tulsi Gabbard. Became a net multi millionaire in 10 years on a $174k yearly Congressional salary and owns six houses to boot. No book deals, no stock profits, no marriage money either.
@@skipperclinton1087 It was a LOT more difficult to become a multi Millionaire, back in the early 60s. I know little about Tulsi. Except that she was a Demonrat and believed in abortion.
There was no strategic clarity
We have a congress full of LBJ's and it shows more and more everyday. Pure evil has no bottom.
Johnson knew what he was doing. He was making money off of military spending for him and his coneys.
My brother was one of the Agent Orange casualties from that war. A Marine at the Siege Of Khe Sanh, was wounded on patrol, awarded a Purple Heart. He survived that horror only to succumb to cancer 42 yrs later along with half of his squad of 12 men in between.
Not to defend LBJ, who was a pure Psychotic, but it was JFK that authorized the Herbicidal warfare program in SE Asia.
The late, great General Colin Powell, who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, wrote in his autobiography, “My American Journey,” that no one in the military had an exit strategy to get out of Vietnam. You just did your time in Vietnam and hopefully made it home to America unharmed.
And, I remember hearing Dan Rather tell Merv Griffin, that Lyndon Johnson could be a very cruel man.
Once when LBJ was flying from Washington DC over to Europe on Air Force One during the Vietnam War and he told the young airman on the plane that he wanted a Fresca to drink.
When the young airman told the President that he only had Coke and Pepsi on board the plane, LBJ said that he could have the young airman transferred to Da Nang air base, which was being shelled frequently by the North Vietnamese Army.
So, before the flight back to the US, the frightened airman made sure that there were three cases of Fresca on board the plane.
However, LBJ told the young airman, that he now wanted a Tab on the flight home. Apparently, LBJ could be a real unit, at times.
The confusing time of my youth.
LBJ's "deadly mistake" was being born.
Col. Harry Summers, a member of the American delegation to the Paris "Peace" Accords relates this story he had in discussions with his NVA counterparts. They told him that 3 times the Noth Vietnamese thought they had lost the war: Tet 68, Cambodia 1970, and the failed NVA Easter offensive of 1972. But they said, each time you (the Americans) let us back in the game.
LBJ cops out in '68.
LBJ Made the big mistake when he listened to the generals and admirals. They wanted a war to provide growth of the military. They wanted the promotions. Vietnam when on and on because it was the best promotional opportunity for the military. The politicians could not turn them down when they said gives this much more and we will win. It was a sucker bet.
You might want to read "Dereliction of Duty" by H.R. McMaster. Johnson and his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, treated the generals and admirals with contempt and ignored their advice.
Actually, he did not listen to the CIA or the military. The Air Force wanted to bomb out the North Vietnamese electrical plants in '65 to ruin their economy and stop their ability to make war. LBJ said no. He also ignored CIA evaluations as well.
Our first involvement in Vietnam was December 1954 as my dad who was a career military officer was the deputy commander of the First American Advisor Group that went there in December 1954. The buildup started then.
What about WW2 when the US through the OSS supported Ho Chi Minh fighting the Japanese.
@@jimarcher5255 The enemy of my enemy is my friend or so they say.
@@wlh227 sometimes they both hate you.
Sunnis and Shiites, for example.
LBJ’s parents made the mistake of not holding his head under water when he was born till the bubbles quit coming out
Johnson was getting kickbacks from defense contractors and others profiting from the war. When Lynden Johnson conned his way into the house of representatives in the 30's he was a poor highshool history teacher. When he left the Whitehouse in 1968 he was one of the wealthy men in America.
This is why I absolutely hated LBJ. I served during the Vietnam War, but was lucky, I wasn't sent, but four of my friends died there.
I did six combat tours in Vietnam during the sixties USMC came back to the states in 71
@@Jeff-sl8xzWelcome back, Sir, and thank you for your service!
Wasn't a blunder. It was a deliberate financial decision on the part of that crook. Thanks
Johnson new exactly what he was doing.
Thank you!
Thank you Bill for that truth in history..
I am a victim of agent orange of the Vietnam war. I suffer from Parkinson’s caused by agent Orange. Thanks, President Johnson.
The company that manufactured Agent Orange ad Napalm paid Johnson handsomely..
So how will we look at biden then??? Because he makes LBJ and Nixon look like an angel!!!
And we find out all these facts many decades later!! What is happening now?
I was very young during these times and remember all of this as sitting beside my Dad watching it all unfold in front of us. My Father use to explain all of this to me bit by bit as i was there asking why, why, why lol😂 But 😅 retained my memory about because my Father took the time to explain it to me.❤ And to this day i miss him so much❤😢😢😢😢
Johnson didn't make a mistake, he made a fortune, it was all about the money
It was all by design
Just doing what his big backers told him . M.I.C. , not much has changed has it ??
We need Trump back!
Stop the East Coast wind farm scam!
The advice came from General Matthew Ridgeway. Ridgeway gave the advice to President Eisenhower. Eisenhower passed it on to, President Kennedy.
LBJ had a big stake in the Military Industrial Complex via Lady Bird's investments in the military complex. They became millionaires by the blood of American troops.
And that's way there is a wired fence put up 30 ft from his grave so nobody could spit on it.
Q: How many wars has the CIA won since its inception in 1947?
A: Zero.
100s
Bill, also follow the money, Johnson's father-in-law owned Brown and Rout, they were civilian contractor's in Vietnam, and today it is Halliburton controlled by Dick Chaney and they were Civilian contractors in the golf wars
Thankyou for the Truth
The American military industrial complex made loads of MONEY from the Vietnam War.
Guess he did not think about what would happen after knocking off Kennedy
Thank You Bill for speaking the truth!
So True - So True,! VN Vet
Every generation needs this true to be told : Johnson Vietnam disaster … and R.NIXON ENDED THAT WAR
My cousin flew helicopters in Vietnam and still loves Nixon for bringing him home
Throughout his presidency, JFK resisted the generals in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who wanted him to put ground troops into Vietnam. He signed National Security Action Memo 263 in October, 1963, ordering the first 1,000 of our people home from Vietnam by the end of '63 and calling for the rest to come home by '65. He was also conducting secret talks with Khrushchev of the Soviet Union to try to end the Cold War and the nuclear arms race, and Khrushchev was enthusiastic about the peace effort. After his assassination, LBJ immediately started escalating our troop levels in Vietnam. JFK would have been an even greater president if he'd been allowed to serve his full term.
LBJ retained Kennedy cabinet members, Dean Rusk (Sec State) and Robert McNamera (Defense Sec) both interventionists hawks (in terms of fighting a ground war with US troops). Johnson followed their advice. I find it hard to believe that Kennedy would have done any differently. If he had, he did a poor job in selecting two of his most important cabinet members, who didn't align with him on one of the most crucial policy decisions facing him as he assumed office.
Im looking forward to reading this new book!!!
maybe im wrong but i believe kennedy would have been a very good 2nd term president
Maybe, but probably would have been much better than Johnson. Could it be that the number one mistake of Kennedy's administration was that Johnson was his VP.
I like these short reports. Bite size!
Douglass MacArthur advised JFK to stay out of Vietnam as well.
LBJ s Great society put more people rocking on the porch.
It was a deliberate and well strategized plot to destroy Black society.. It took the male, "head of the household" out of the family. Job training is what was needed to make people more employable. My late father wrote the "Manpower Act" when he worked for President Kennedy. This outlined comprehensive training unskilled workers to become skilled, employable workers.
Johnson got his due☠️...less than 20 years later, he died...a defeated, heart💔broken old man...that war put 50 years on him in less than 10
Spent a year in Vietnam. Came home a mess. PTSD was not even a word in our vocabulary so didn't know how to fix myself. 5 years later I had a supernatural encounter with God. I was healed INSTANTLY from the trauma of war the moment I asked Jesus into my life! Jesus is the solution to all your problems. He is Risen from the dead and revealed Himself to me in December 1974. My life was never the same after that night and yours can be supernaturally changed as well.
I was there in 66 and 67. If Jesus works for, so be it, whatever works buddy..
Hallelujah!!!!
Praise the Lord Jesus!
My Dad did 2 tours from 66-69 . Thankfully he made it home . But he lost many many friends . In 70 a skirmish in Korea , another 6 mo . Came back with 2 broken legs . He survived until 2010.
No end game!!!!!!!!
President Trump MAGA ❤️💯🇺🇸
How you don't think the blunder we have now is going to resign.
Johnson was behind kenndy death too
An opportunity missed. Need never to have had that war.
Today everyone blames Nixon for Vietnam.
When I turned 18 within days the war ended. Until then I was scared shitless. I always felt so terrible afterwards thinking of those poor souls, some of which were only a few months or a couple years older than me that died in that worthless sh1thole for absolutely nothing. And to think our politicians actually profited from it......pure evil.
Gotta wonder what part of hell he’s in.
The main reason he didn’t run in 64. He knew he wouldn’t win.
In 1950 Johnson was a senator in charge of the FCC. His biggest fear in life was being poor. In those days it took the FCC years to approve a media license. However, if you slipped Johnson a few hundred thousand the license waiting time was cut by a tenth. Johnson is the founder of modern day government corruption. He was the poster child for all of the other politicians in Washington. He was later bought by defense contractors that resulted in Vietnam. I often think of how our country would have been better if Johnson had never been around. I am also quite certain old Lyndon isn’t sitting on the right side of our Lord. 28000 Americans were killed in Vietnam because of Johnson’s corruption.
Johnson did not resign the presidency. As president, he merely stated (in March 1968) that he would not be a candidate for another term and he thus "sat out" the Nov 1968 election. But Johnson stayed in office of president until the completion of his existing term of office in January 1969.
*"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." -- George Orwell*
*"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." -- George Orwell*
I remember reading a declassified CIA report from the Eisenhower administration in the Columbia library soon after Johnson became president and it made the case that the US should not intervene very strongly. It Wasn’t clear initially that Johnson, McNamara et all really didn’t have a clear strategy. A high school classmate went to West Point and served three tours in Vietnam did say to me in the 90s that all the orders he received made sense to him. That made me see it in a different perspective.
LBJ knew what he was doing when he sent troops over to Vietnam-because, who benefitted from this ?? his buddies from Texas for one… LBJ was a horrible man.
There are no mistakes Bill, only plans and framework.
LBJ was so corrupt
The wrong person was shot on 11-22-1963.
So, back in the 1970's, did we hear O'Reilly telling us to stay out of Vietnam?
There are still sharp differences of opinion regarding Vietnam.
I think you have missed a historical point. Kennedy was killed in November 1963. The number of forces we had in Vietnam at that time was relatively small - limited to advisors helping the Republic of Vietnam deal with the Communist insurgency from the north. The buildup of American forces didn’t start until March 1965. So whatever Kennedy was expressing before November 1962 about Vietnam was a different matter.
The Pentagon made many, many blunders in Vietnam. But Johnson was in charge and he and McNamara made many, many blunders. The biggest blunder though was how the Kennedy Administration dealt with the 1962 “Neutralization of Laos”. We had advisors and CIA in Laos to prevent the North Vietnamese from infiltrating to the South. The agreement was all foreign forces would withdraw. The US pulled out our forces, but North Vietnam increased their numbers flowing south.
The War in Vietnam was lost when the US could not enforce a Demilitarized Zone across the 17th Parallel into Laos. Yes, the US could have won that war. But not with the stupid mistakes which were made by the US
I think I trust and believe Mr. OReily’s view of things over yours. Advisors were coming OUT under Kennedy, the order was set. Johnson reversed all of that the next day, and in the doc was the Vietnam war, all Tee’d up. Total clusterfuk of a President.
Arm chair quarterbacks, what a shame, love America, but sometimes, almost every president that gets in, makes incredible mistakes, and as always the middle class backbone of this country gets stuck