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ecib · 3939 days ago · link · · parent · post: Nancy Dickerson’s reporting on Lyndon Johnson: Inside LBJ’s house the night after JFK died.
An intimate portrait of the aftermath in the home of the new president. While traveling this weekend I was engrossed in this post by humanodon. My general knowledge on the sheer number of assassination attempts on U.S. presidents was lacking, as I found the article shocking. Dickerson's article is a timely underscore to but one of the incidents. I found the level of paranoia, fear, and lack of intelligence (information) Johnson was expressing to be an interesting juxtaposition to the aggressive information omnipotence people are increasingly ascribing to the executive branch in light of the Snowden revelations about our intelligence services.