[lbo-talk] more LBJ tapes

Chuck chuck at mutualaid.org
Sun Nov 19 16:36:51 PST 2006


Michael Pugliese wrote:
> As related by David Rieff, "Bring The Troops Home, " in the latest
> TNR, devoted to Iraq, Mayor Richard Daley to LBJ during the Democratic
> National Convention in '68. Daley tells LBJ it is time to withdraw
> once and for all. "How am I to do this?" To which Daley is said to
> have replied, "You put the fucking troops on the fucking planes and
> you get them out of there!"

Evidently, LBJ was worried that the C-130s would be unable to carry all of his political baggage.

;-)

Chuck



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