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Aug 05, 2017
Remember what goldwater said about lbj: he can't keep the pig shit off his boots. "He convinced northern liberals that he was not a racist, that he didn't hate the Negro, that he was a moderate who truly wanted progress in racial relations---convinced them so thoroughly that for decades descriptions of Richard Russell by the predominately liberal corps of Washington journalists were couched in terms that verged on idolatry." "The fight with McCarthy was one for which he had little stomach--for Lyndon Johnson had read not only the polls, but the man, and he was very, very, very wary of the man. 'Joe will go that extra mile to destroy you,' he said privately.....After being introduced to Herman Brown at a cocktail party, McCarthy told Johnson the next day: 'Well, I met your sugar daddy.' As Evans and Novak were to say: 'Johnson, it seemed, wanted to strike at McCarthy--but not until McCarthy could be brought down. He knew how dangerous McCarthy was.' "