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[339] The blockade did not get rid of the missiles that were already there, but at least he was “doing something.” Americans like action. Sitting doesn’t please Americans when problems arise.
[340] Some interesting side notes: the day Kennedy was shot an investigator was briefing powerful republican lawmakers on financial misdeeds of Vice President Johnson, and a Mr. Baker, previously associated with Johnson’s political team, was running a prostitution ring that included call girls that had “visited” President Kennedy, Vice-President Johnson, and many top democrat leaders in Washington DC. After Johnson became president, he killed the investigation through the committee the investigators were reporting to. On a straight party line vote the democrat lawmakers on the committee voted to stop the investigation—and they had the votes to make it stick. It is now clear that President Kennedy had been seeing prostitutes while he was president, and one of them was an east German spy. Also, Kennedy had let it be known that Johnson would not be on the ticket as vice-president in 1964. It is not a secret that Johnson despised the Kennedy clan, especially Robert Kennedy the attorney general. Johnson had been the most powerful man in Washington, and was still a tremendous force in Texas his home state. Many conspiracy buffs think it is compelling evidence that Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, where Johnson was all but a king. Many of the conspiracy theories trace the murder back to Johnson, whose hatred for the Kennedy brothers was fierce, who did not want to be forced out of the government, who did not want to be exposed as a criminal or a user of call girls, and had powerful friends in Texas who wanted more business directed to the Lone Star State.
[341] In my opinion, he will end up as the worst US president in the 20th Century and perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States, at least up to 2010.
[342] This was another assassination with a lot of holes in the investigation. Once more, critical evidence was destroyed or lost by the LA Police Department (door jams and ceiling tiles) which may have shown there was a seconded shooter involved with the murder.
[343] The term “invasion” is accurate. South Vietnam fell to a full-scale Korean-style invasion from North Vietnam. The communists had numerous tanks, large numbers of men, supporting artillery, and all the rest. Saigon’s fall was not the result of a guerrilla action.
[344] He is the only president to hold office never being elected as president or vice president.
[345] Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. This was (and is) a cartel controlling world oil supplies.
[346] The dictators of communist Russia (the USSR) and communist China (People’s Republic of China) respectively.
[347] In 1950, both North and South Vietnam were controlled by the French as one colony.
[348] The Secretary of State, in a speech about US interests in the east, omitted mentioning South Korea. This may have led the communist dictators to conclude that South Korea was not a vital interest of the USA; thus, the US would not defend the little nation if it was invaded.
[349] The terrorist attacks of 9/11/01 were another elephantine intelligence failure for the United States. No change from 1950 to 2001.
[350] The United Nations would fail to act when North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in 1975. It would act to repel the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990.
[351] I have always wondered why the air theorists thought bombing would work against a totalitarian government where the will of the people means nothing.
[352] Communist spies working on the docks in San Francisco and Japan had warned that something was up, but the North didn’t listen.
[353] Here is the rub of not fully discussing MacArthur’s plan. The move north should have been considered