The former US President Lindon Johnson was considered involved in the murder of his predecessor and prevent a nuclear strike on Vietnam. Political analyst of the Institute of International Research MGIMO Viktor Zimin in a conversation with “Tape.ru” rated the reality of the stories that the media published about Joneson with reference to the declassified documents.
At the peak of his political career, Lindon Johnson became the 37th Vice-President of the United States under President John Kennedy, and after the Murder of the latter took his post, becoming the 36th US president from the Democratic Party. He ruled the country from November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969. On Saturday, January 22, his anniversary of his death – he died in 1973.
American media, referring to the declassified documents, tied his name with two theories – about involvement in the murder of Kennedy and a possible nuclear strike during the War in Vietnam.
involvement in the murder of Kennedy
According to a declassified FBI document from 1966, Johnson was considered a conspirator responsible for killing 35 US President John Kennedy, reported in 2017 Edition The Times.
According to Zimin, this is a typical conspiracy, and Johnson himself was surprised by the fact that he got such a post, and was not capable of such a plot. “He was quite a cunning politician, but did not reach such a monster as the hero of the series” Card House “President Anderwood,” he said.
The political scientist was not surprised at the point of view of the USSR, since the Soviet people loved conspiracy theories. Among these, he called, for example, the opinion that the Americans were not on the moon, despite the fact that it was recorded by Soviet controls for space space.
more wealthy Zimin considers the version of the murder of Kennedy, which Valentin Zorin nominated. According to his theory, the president killed Mafia Sam Dzhankan for not able to ensure their interests in Cuba.
In addition, Zorin expressed the theory that the CIA was involved in the murder of Kennedy, as the President tried to establish relations with the Soviet Union. But this version Zimin also considers insolvent.
Nuclear Punch in Vietnam
New York Times newspaper with reference to the declassified archival documents reported that the US military in 1968, at the height of War in Vietnam, planned to attack the Northwenthenemian forces with nuclear weapons, but Johnson found out on the preparing operation and ordered it to collapse.
The military could not cook without the knowledge of the president, and even more so to fulfill a nuclear strike, the political scientist noted. In his opinion, the military-sensing political leaders are people who often advocate deterrent in conditions when politicians or their advisers are in favor of some provocative military steps.
US relations and USSR at that time
Johnson played a positive role in Soviet-American relations, Zimin believes. Despite the Cold War, attempted attempted when the head of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev and part of the Soviet leadership wanted to establish relations with America.