Meet Joe Biden: The New 1968 Lyndon Johnson
When a president’s own party turns on him.
by Jeffrey Lord
July 12, 2022, 12:17 AM
For those who were not around in the day, step in the time capsule and rocket back with me to the early months of … 1968.
The incumbent Democrat president of the United States was Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, or, as he was shorthanded then and now, LBJ.
Four years earlier, LBJ was riding high.
On November 22, 1963, around noon, LBJ was riding in a limousine in Dallas a few cars behind the presidential limo carrying President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and, in the jump seat ahead of them, Democratic Gov. John Connally and his wife Nellie. Shockingly, out of the blue, shots rang out. Within hours, Kennedy was dead — and Lyndon Johnson was suddenly the 36th president of the United States.
America and the world were thrown into turmoil and chaos. Hours went by as Kennedy was treated by stunned doctors, it quickly obvious the young president was already dead. With JFK moved into a casket and from there onto Air Force One, LBJ took the presidential oath in a cramped cabin, with a bloodstained Mrs. Kennedy next to him and his own wife on his other side. On arriving back in Washington, LBJ waited until the flag-draped casket was removed to a waiting hearse and finally got off the plane and walked a few steps with his wife to a cluster of microphones to speak to the nation for the first time as president.
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