re: Was President Johnson [démocrate] held accountable for the Mai Lai massacre?

Interesting fact: I have met Rusty Calley. I’ve been to his place of business and to his house. He was a small guy. Probably 5’5” and very soft spoken. I believe he was an alcoholic. I think all of that really affected him. Last I heard, he died a couple of years ago.

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Was President Johnson [démocrate] held accountable for the Mai Lai massacre?

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Weak analogies are weak.

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Many of my earliest recollections involve listening to my grandfather telling all the menfolk that Johnson was a murderer! This was back in the late 40s.

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The Box 13 scandal. Coke Stevenson and LBJ were in the Democratic Primary for US Senate in 1948. Stevenson seemingly won the election, but 6 days after the polls closed, an additional 202 votes were added to a precinct in Jim Wells County. 200 of them were for Johnson. He won by less than 100 votes.

A year after the election, a radio journalist is murdered by Sam Smithwick, who just so happens to be the Deputy Sheriff of Jim Wells County. Soon after, Smithwick writes a letter to Coke Stevenson from prison about the fixed election. He was soon found dead in his cell. No doubt LBJ was the man behind all of it.

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Weak analogies are weak.

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