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METRO | Operation Texas: LBJ’s secret rescue mission on the eve of the Holocaust
One Texas scholar insisted that Johnson’s strong spiritual conviction and moral obligation fueled this alleged clandestine undertaking. By Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog | February 24, 2016 HOUSTON — On the evening of December 30, 1963, a little … Continue reading
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Tagged Agudas Achim, Anti-Semitism, Erich Leinsdorf, Holocaust, Ivan Koop Kuper, Jim Novy, LBJ, LBJ Library, Louis Gomolak, Metro, Murray Diskin, Operation Texas, Rag Bloggers, Texas History
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Lamar W. Hankins : Lyndon Baines Johnson As Tragic Hero
Former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, August 1972. Image from the LBJ Library / PBS Newshour. Lyndon Baines Johnson: My tragic hero LBJ was doomed from the start, trapped by earlier mistakes that he could not avoid without being vilified by … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Rights, Lamar W. Hankins, LBJ, LBJ Library, Sixties, Tragic Heroes, Vietnam War
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