Lyndon Johnson demanded Jackie Kennedy be present for famous swearing-in pic after her husband’s assassination

Which colour to you like to watch Murph!!!

It is not just "old news". The people that had JFK assassinated still run the U.S. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Please,Please let JFK rest in peace. That was such a painful time when he was murdered then Bobby then Martin Luther King plus Vietnam. That is one time I wish my mind was blank.

Murph46: Watching paint dry is probably all your 'pea-brain' could handle. Anything else would be over your head!

. Except for the fact that I was not there ... I believe that this story involves more than a bit of biased B---S---. Fact. At the instant of JFK's incapacitation LBJ was president. period. AirForce 1 is the President's plane. The President is in charge, responsible, for the functioning of the country. Yes, I believe Jackie, dazed (as anyone living through the experience -as did I- remains to this day) said: "Let them see..." Whatever else anyone has to say about the personal stature of LBJ is irrelevant to the immediate sequence of events in the hours after the loss. Not to defend Johnson in any way ... but I believe that any fair exchange would have to evaluate the can of worms, VietNam, he inherited from JFK, who -inturn- inherited it on a rope from Eisenhower; who inherited it as a thread from Harry Truman. Check y'alls history of U.S. "advisors", and who was who and where through the escalation and routing out of Amerikanistas after the French had the 'grace' to accept their IndoChina escapade just "not being worth it".

Murph46.You came to this article twice.Thought you said you would rather watch paint dry?Only for Seano and Bythebay's comments on Irelands rates of company tax.It would have been a waste of a click.

Seano come back to planet earth-this is about Kennedy swearing in you and by by needs your meds.

There are three rates of company tax in Ireland,trading income 12.5%,non trading income 25% and manufacturing 10%. The Shannon free zone (no corporate tax)ended in 2003.Ireland has always pursued its own independent tax structure regardless of the EU.

Jaysus! Anything to get the Kennedy name in print! I'd rather watch paint dry!

This is all old news. After this revealation Johnson was under suspicion of being behind Kennedy's death. Which I believed to be true years ago. Why is Robert Cato cashing in on old news. Isn't there enough trash written about Kennedy's death. Time to move on and be original Mr. Cato.

The "transformation" had already been done. "What you do. Do it quickly". Jackie stated about her bloodied clothing, "let them see what 'they' have done". She knew. The entire "Irish mafia" knew. LBJ was already ready to "jump in the pool". He then took over Air Force One and Jackie came back to the plane and found him laying in her stateroom. What greater message do you need?

Jacqueline Kennedy was always a class act (even though she was married to a lecherous, unfaithful hypocrite). Lyndon Johnson was always without class. As a Texan we were/ and still are somewhat embarrassed by the power hungry base Johnson. He had hillbilly roots and he never got passed them. Jackie was not forced to do this and it was reassuring to the world. Again.....she was a class act

Very old news. Time to move on.

This is not new news.....

The swearing-in of the vice president did not need to be legitimized by the wife of the President. It's the law. It was symbolic, of course, to have the widow standing by. . .not to "legitimize" the transition. . .It was,however, symbolic, which I thought at the time - an outstanding gesture on Mrs. Kennedy's part. Do not denigrate this awful time in our nation's history with legitimizing the author's view that Mrs. Kennedy was "forced" to do something she did not want to do. She was a major history buff and would have understood the significance, i.e, the entire funeral was planned by Mrs. Kennedy with history in mind. Lastly, this is the U.S. not Great Britain, the presidency is not a birthright,and there is no need for "approval" from the deceased president's family or anyone else. The writer misinterprets -- Mrs. Kennedy deserves credit and honor for standing beside Lyndon Johnson at the worst of times.