Very Important Day In History

Texas Lawdog · December 03, 2008, 07:52:14 AM

Johnson was relucant to be Kennedy's running mate because he wanted to be President. Johnson's mentor, Sam Rayburn(Speaker of the House), convinced him to be the VP. He basically told Johnson that half a loaf of bread is better than no loaf at all.

Ozark Tracker · December 03, 2008, 08:03:00 AM

I've read through the years that the Kennedys felt superior to Johnson and thought of him like a country bumkin, but they thought they needed him for the southern votes. I'm sure there was no love lost between them

Texas Lawdog · December 03, 2008, 08:11:12 AM

Like Arcey said, They made their money "bootlegging" whiskey from Canada. I don't think they gave LBJ enough credit, he was a better politican than they thought.

Ozark Tracker · December 03, 2008, 08:21:37 AM

I can remember back when Kennedy was running for President, a lot of the churches having a fit because they didn's want a Catholic becoming president, I remember going to church and the preacher saying you were riskin goin to Hell if you voted for Kennedy, a lot of emotions ran high back then

Texas Lawdog · December 03, 2008, 08:27:12 AM

It sorta sounds like this years election.

Arcey · December 03, 2008, 08:28:22 AM

Just a side note, don't wanna change the subject.

He was known as LBJ. Kennedy, JFK. So on........

The next president apparently doesn't care for his given, middle name of Hussein. We should respect that and drop it. Refer to the next president as BO.

litl rooster · December 03, 2008, 09:09:49 AM

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Ozark Tracker · December 03, 2008, 09:49:39 AM

on another side, side note, have you noticed how many commerative coins and plates and this that and the other things are comin out for BO, I have to smile everytime I see them and think about all them that's gonna be added to the ones they have of Martin Luther King and John Kennedy,

only wish I was gettin a coupla cents off each one they was sellin.

Leo Tanner · December 03, 2008, 12:19:26 PM

OT, it's a new diet program ta combat American obesity. Ya scoop up the last bite a yer food an there's BO starin at ya from the plate.

A quick trip ta the porcelan temple an it's like the whole meal never happened. We'll all be nice an trim if we play along.

Leo

Texas Lawdog · December 03, 2008, 02:58:36 PM

I'm glad you guys put everything in prospective.

Silver Creek Slim · December 04, 2008, 10:36:18 PM

Quote from: Arcey on December 03, 2008, 08:28:22 AM
Just a side note, don't wanna change the subject.

He was known as LBJ. Kennedy, JFK. So on........

The next president apparently doesn't care for his given, middle name of Hussein. We should respect that and drop it. Refer to the next president as BO.

Slim

Texas Lawdog · December 05, 2008, 08:16:51 AM

The Lexington leaves Pearl Harbor headed for Midway.

Arcey · December 05, 2008, 08:24:28 AM

At 2:10 p.m., five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission. Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 120-mile leg that would return them to the naval base. They never returned.

Texas Lawdog · December 05, 2008, 08:38:13 AM

That was on 12-5- 1945.

Arcey · December 05, 2008, 08:50:27 AM

Thinkin' taday is kindah 12-05....

Got the hell rid of prohibition (lower case intended) too....

Texas Lawdog · December 05, 2008, 08:53:42 AM

Yeah, That nasty Ol' 18th amendment. Beer for everybody.

Leo Tanner · December 05, 2008, 12:32:45 PM

Quote from: Texas Lawdog on December 05, 2008, 08:53:42 AM
Yeah, That nasty Ol' 18th amendment. Beer for everybody.

I'll drink ta that.
I'll have one fer each of the men on flight 19. They're still tryin ta figgure that one out. Think it was a magnetic field screwed up the gauges an sent em off course.

Leo

Arcey · December 05, 2008, 01:24:13 PM

Read much on that years ago. Think the best one had the planes goin' down in the Okefenokee Swamp. Looked to be well researched 'n logical. Don't recall the piece's theory of how they wound up disoriented. Do recall the authors did much analysis of radar contacts, radio transmissions, time 'n fuel range.

It was well done 'n reasonable. I wonder where the book is.

Leo Tanner · December 05, 2008, 02:05:11 PM

Book's prolly better than the countless TV documenteries that have been on over the years. I don't think I ever heard one mention the Okefenokee. Most of them have them piling it in ta the Atlantic and some even the Gulf. The TV guys always tried ta make it sound creepy instead of presenting the hard facts. Part of the whole Bermuda Triange thing.

Leo

Texas Lawdog · December 05, 2008, 03:28:55 PM

"Dragnet" premiered in 1951.