https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/04/28/going-all-the-way-with-lbj/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 08:33:10 -0400<![CDATA[Around noon on Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, almost exactly 24 hours after the assassination in Dallas, while the president’s casket lay in the East Room of the White House, Arthur Schlesinger, John Kennedy’s kept historian, convened a lunch at Washington’s Occidental restaurant with some other administration liberals. Their purpose was to discuss how to deny the 1964 Democratic presidential nomination to the new incumbent, Lyndon Johnson, and instead run a ticket of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Sen. Hubert Humphrey.]]>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:45:45 -0400<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/04/28/going-all-the-way-with-lbj-n92027