Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is episode 287. As promised, today begins a short mini-series on how Lyndon Johnson acquired his wealth, some of which you already know from

previous episodes of JFK, The Enduring Secret.

But in these next couple of mini-series episodes, we go deeper.

And of course, the implications of that are not so much around wealth itself.

Everyone in this country is free to work hard and be successful and become rich

or inherit wealth and remain rich. After all, that is part of the American dream, isn't it?

Well, that's true. We are not talking about the idea, good or bad, of getting rich or staying rich. Rather rather we are talking about the sources and the

methods relied upon along the way to gain that wealth we're talking about how Lyndon

Johnson's political career and his political influence were a major factor in becoming one of

the richest presidents in history up until that era.

Let's face it, he did not get rich on a government salary.

The salary of a congressman and a senator, which are the activities he engaged in for the most part,

up until 1960, and the next eight years or so after that when he was vice president

and then president

were just not enough to get rich.

He died five years after leaving office in 1973 at the age of 64.

He was an old-looking 64 for sure.

Well, I'd like to think so.

I am now a tad older than him at that age, and I hope I

look better than he did. I'm just saying. But in fairness, anyone who lived that big of a life

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