[lbo-talk] more LBJ tapes

[Chuck]

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