LYNDON JOHNSON TAPES: Pressuring Gerald Ford on Foreign Aid

Gerald Ford & LBJ
December 20, 1963
(WH k6312_11_12)
White House Telephone

Democratic President Lyndon Johnson calls future president Gerald R. Ford to ask him to support a larger monetary amount for a Foreign Aid Appropriations Bill that the Congress was then considering. Ford, a Republican congressman at the time, hedges on giving Johnson his assurances on the bill and in return brings up how important the Republicans consider a Wheat Amendment (to discriminate against the USSR in wheat sales) to the appropriations bill. Johnson feels that such an amendment would only antagonize the Soviet Union, and he refuses to consider it.

This conversation illustrates LBJs involved style in dealing with the Congress.

(Photo: Gerald R. Ford.)

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[gutadolf]

If Obama got involved in congress like this, we would have had health care reform by now

[moijaimelapaix]

yeah, it was kinda their job. They have to keep working to keep other americans from getting their brains blown out of their heads. Not like JFK's death was related to the Russians or the Chinese, but I doubt JFK would want the president to fall behind on the job on his behalf.

[knightschwartz]

mass imm. destroying the west. LBJ was a fucking traitor gave us affirmative action (anti white discrimination).

[hamartolos1]

@donyunger Obama had 2 full years with a Democratic Congress to get his plans and promises done. He didn't do it. He is an ineffective President and doesn't know what he's doing. The plan to make it look like Republicans are at fault for his failure as President isn't working. Even far-left liberals are not buying into it.

[donyunger]

@gutadolf Unlikely Obama was & is dealing with Republicans who expressed goal not to allow to succeed with anything & fail totally

[bubbazep01]

What year is this from?

[cullinane8888]

sone the rat will turn in the grave with the truth exsposed

[huckstered]

@045781 You are a nut. Really. If there were empirical data for your conspiracy theory it would be revealed

by now. Still you hang around these LBJ videos like a psychopath.

[huckstered]

@045781 Yes he was a liar, and bully,braggart, liberator of blacks, savior to the poor and disabled -he would do anything it took to get the social programs to aid the poor,passed . Dealmaker extrordinaire and the consumnate politician we will never see his likes again. He was a mixture of personalities, a jeckyl and hyde type personality. Crude, charming -bigoted and civil rights champion- he could be anything he wanted to be. LBJ changed the country and made it a more equitable place.

[huckstered]

@045781 Yes, he was a mixture of personalities, all of them outsized. Liar , bully , braggart, reformer,

dealmaker extraordinaire- wheeler dealer and bargainmaker, and the consumnate politician. Anathema to repubicans-Liberator of the poor and downtrodden and liberator of blacks. He was out to help the average citizen and did one hell of a job. Don't forget what this country was like for blacks in the south just a short while ago. Murderer? You are very naive? Did what had to be done-LBJ.

[huckstered]

@045781 Yes, he was a mixture of personalities, all of them outsized. Liar , bully , braggart, reformer,

dealmaker extraordinaire- wheeler dealer and bargainmaker, and the consumnate politician. Anathema to repubicans-Liberator of the poor and downtrodden and liberator of blacks. He was out to help the average citizen and did one hell of a job. Don't forget what this country was like for blacks in the south just a short while ago. Murderer? You are very naive? Did what had to be done-LBJ.