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JOHNSON, Lyndon B. Typed letter signed ("Lyndon"), as U. S. Senator, to A. Willis Robertson (1887-1971), Austin, Texas, 31 August 1956. 1 page 4to, United States Senate stationery.
SOME SHARP POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS TO REV. PAT ROBERTSON'S FATHER DURING THE 1956 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
"EISENHOWER'S POPULARITY REMAINS HIGH...BUT NONE OF THE POPULARITY SEEMS TO HAVE RUBBED OFF ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY". A wide-ranging political letter to a fellow Senator, touching on everything from Ike's re-election campaign, to the Suez crisis and the Stevenson-Kefauver team. "I agree with you that peace and prosperity are slogans that are hard to beat," Johnson tells Virginia's Robertson. "But if the Suez situation continues to deteriorate, the peace slogan may become a mockery and as far as prosperity is concerned I know plenty of areas where it simply doesn't exist. There is no doubt that Eisenhower's popularity remains high but I have been amazed in my travels to discover that none of that popularity seems to have rubbed off on the Republican Party. I think this election will be decided on the basis of whether Mr. Eisenhower can carry the Republican Party or whether the Republican Party will drag him down to defeat."
LBJ is not very hopeful about his own party's candidates, as he takes a swipe at the campaigning skills of the nominee and his running mate. "I met with Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefeauver in Santa Fe last Monday. They have been watching each other closely and Adlai is now shaking hands all over the place with the aplomb of a veteran and Estes' diction has improved at least 50 They should make an interesting combination." Johnson's sense was dead-on: Ike easily won re-election, but the Congress went Democratic. If he had known that, Eisenhower grumbled, he would not have bothered to run. As for LBJ's friendship with Robertson, that came to a bitter end ten years later. A die-hard segregationist, Robertson broke with LBJ over the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts in 1964 and 1965.
SOME SHARP POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS TO REV. PAT ROBERTSON'S FATHER DURING THE 1956 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
"EISENHOWER'S POPULARITY REMAINS HIGH...BUT NONE OF THE POPULARITY SEEMS TO HAVE RUBBED OFF ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY". A wide-ranging political letter to a fellow Senator, touching on everything from Ike's re-election campaign, to the Suez crisis and the Stevenson-Kefauver team. "I agree with you that peace and prosperity are slogans that are hard to beat," Johnson tells Virginia's Robertson. "But if the Suez situation continues to deteriorate, the peace slogan may become a mockery and as far as prosperity is concerned I know plenty of areas where it simply doesn't exist. There is no doubt that Eisenhower's popularity remains high but I have been amazed in my travels to discover that none of that popularity seems to have rubbed off on the Republican Party. I think this election will be decided on the basis of whether Mr. Eisenhower can carry the Republican Party or whether the Republican Party will drag him down to defeat."
LBJ is not very hopeful about his own party's candidates, as he takes a swipe at the campaigning skills of the nominee and his running mate. "I met with Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefeauver in Santa Fe last Monday. They have been watching each other closely and Adlai is now shaking hands all over the place with the aplomb of a veteran and Estes' diction has improved at least 50 They should make an interesting combination." Johnson's sense was dead-on: Ike easily won re-election, but the Congress went Democratic. If he had known that, Eisenhower grumbled, he would not have bothered to run. As for LBJ's friendship with Robertson, that came to a bitter end ten years later. A die-hard segregationist, Robertson broke with LBJ over the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts in 1964 and 1965.