Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
He [Douglas] would understand it a little better if there were a few oil wells in Cook County .
Paul Douglas of Illinois was a world famous economist before he was elected to the Senate. He was a constant opponent of a tax loophole known as the "oil depletion allowance." Lyndon Johnson was a proponent of the allowance:. the home county of Chicago
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Quoted in David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest, Fawcett, 1969
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30 years later, the same situation existed with Barack Obama as President. The independent oil producers also were doing very well, but the President’s rhetoric was not what they wanted to hear, just as they reacted to President Carter in 1982. He told Americans to conserve energy—not what oil men wanted to hear.
The ad was prepared by American Renewal, the political lobbying wing of the FRC. This quotation would be typical of the political technique of using the most tenuous, remote connection between a politician of the opposing party and a really evil world villain that was so commonly used by conservative politicians at the time. However, what makes the quotation even more noteworthy is that there is an equally tenuous connection between the Family Research Council's Focus on Families as defined in its charter and the subject of the ad–drilling for oil in the environmentally fragile areas of the Anwar of Alaska. Some of the FRC officials justify their getting into this issues as the drilling could help the economy and that will create jobs and then families will have more resources to spend for nutrition, education, health care etc. With that logic, there is nothing in politics that would be beyond their purview so why have a charter and a mission at all?
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, in office from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson was also a United States representative and later majority leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people to have served, at various times, in all four federal elected positions.
