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LBJ :The Passage of Power. By Robert Caro

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Steve M. Galbraith:

--- Quote from: John R. Tonkovich on February 11, 2026, 07:16:13 PM ---Thanks for the response.
Yes, LBJ did keep and work with the majority of JFK's people, and a great deal of JFK's proposals were carried out. But, that was not guaranteed to happen.

So, perhaps the assassination - if it was a conspiracy-  did not reap what "alleged" conspirators had sowed (or is it sown) Obviously,  we're getting into counterfactual history, so I'll stop here.

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There was, of course, no guarantee that he would be elected President in 1964. Maybe the Baker scandal explodes, maybe he has another heart attack; lots of unforeseen things could happen. So killing JFK (assuming he was behind it) gives him a year as President. That doesn't mean it's the end of any Baker investigation. A Republican wins the White House, his career is really over and the Baker dirt is exposed by a GOP Justice Department. Win/win turns into lose/lose.

In conspiracy world, everything is smoothly run, all of the right buttons are pushed and work, the people, the ones who carried out the conspiracy and followup generations investigating it, act like cogs in a machine, follow orders and remain silent forever, and everything comes out as planned. Easy peasy. In the real world, as we know simply by reading the news each day, none of that is true. In fact, it's the opposite. People screw up, events unexpectedly happen and "all of the plans of mice and men go awry."

Louis Earl:
On the subject of why LBJ kept all the Kennedy people after the assassination:  He hardly had time to assemble a team. Everyone was in shock around the US, if not in a lot of the world.  LBJ had been kept on the outside by the K people since day one; I doubt he had  any idea about what was going on other than superficially. LBJ once said "I'd rather have someone inside the tent pissing out than have them outside the tent pissing in."  Keeping the K people in the government was the only way to know what they were up to.

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