Hi Charles,

Speaking of conspiracy theories .... ;-)

Mike


05/12/2005 11:51:55
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To 05/12/2005 08:38:59
Mike Beane [Send an email to Mike Beane] [Send a private message to Mike Beane] #012863 [This member is online]
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Re: The last farewell?


>Where is this thread, anyway? It seems to have been disappeared from the VFP forum by our ever-vigilant host.

Could you provide me more info on the thread you are looking for? I would then be able to locate it and tell you where it is. Usually, they are moved in here when they are not VFP related. But, it is somewhere for sure.

Michel Fournier
Microsoft MVP




>As did Hubert Humphrey, who notably lost the West Virginia primary to the paragon of virtue JFK - and to a suitcase with $75k of Joe Kennedy's money delivered to the bosses in Wheeling by Skinny D'Amato - bagman for Sam Giancana.
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>Richard Nixon knew about this and about Daley 'delivering' Cook county in the general election long before it became 'public' knowledge and it was definitely one of sources of bitterness fueling his already well-entrenched personality disorders.
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>Of course, when JFK/RFK did not show sufficient gratitude to political benefactors and Carlos Marcello found himself dumped in Guatemala, Joe Kennedy's old friends showed their bitterness in a way that made Nixon look like a Quaker.
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>Welcome to Dallas, President Kennedy.
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>It is, however, lost in the amnesia of the Salinger created 'Camelot' but makes it pretty funny when anybody in the last 10 years has become apoplectic about losing 'stolen' elections.
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>>>LBJ lost his first election for political office. He lost to an old time Texas politician and in the process learned a few things about how to win. It seems that the total number of votes cast in the election was greater than the number of registered voters. Upon examination many of the votes were cast from persons who were deceased. The ballet box had been stuffed and that is why LBJ lost.
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>>>The next election saw LBJ running against the same person he had lost to earlier. This time LBJ made sure that he had more votes from deceased voters than his opponent and he never lost another election! :)
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>>LBJ's opponent in those elections was Coke Stevenson. The story is memorably told in the first volume of Robert Caro's LBJ biography.
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>>LBJ did lose another election, in a sense -- the 1960 Democratic nomination for President.