LBJ's daughters call Biden 'patriot without peer'

[newdeal2]

LBJ's daughters call Biden 'patriot without peer' for dropping out

A sitting president has never dropped out of a race as close to Election Day as Joe Biden.

The last time an incumbent president announced he wouldn’t run for reelection was Texas’ Lyndon Baines Johnson. Many are now looking to his decision 56 years ago for comparison.

Two who are intimately familiar with the fateful decision in 1968 are LBJ’s daughters, Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb.

“President Biden, you are a patriot without peer,” wrote the pair in a release to media on Sunday afternoon. “Once more you have given all a person can for our country. As the daughters of another president who gave his all for America, we are so proud of you again as we have always been,” the pair wrote.

[onecaliberal]

1. Thanks for posting that.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Thank you Lynda and Luci!!!

[calimary]

16. Indeed. They sure saw history from close up.

What a perspective they both have!

[Deuxcents]

3. Eloquent and gracious message

[anciano]

4. Thank you for your post...

and thank you Luci and Lynda.

[Botany]

5. Want to turn Texas blue? Fire up Texas Women. I have just reread Lady Bird Johnson's book on

…. native plants, wildflowers, and her groundbreaking work on bringing nature back to
the people. She was 70 years ahead of everybody in her work and Texas has had some
other great women too.

Btw what a classy note.

[LeftInTX]

6. Now I'm gonna cry...

Mainly because of 1968....

[Codifer]

7. Let us hope

and pray that the 2024 Democratic Convention in Chicago goes much more smoothly than the
1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

I remember that one. And I remember Mayor Daley.

[Iris]

8. I love this!

[Hekate]

9. ❤️

[Upthevibe]

10. newdeal2.........

Thank you for this post!

[MLAA]

11. Beautiful statement.

Democrats are just such intelligent, kind, talented people.

[niyad]

12. Thank you for this OP.

[ananda]

13. I had always considered LBJ the best president of my lifetime.

Now it's a tie with Biden.

[NBachers]

14. What a treasure to hear from these two classy Democratic women.

[dsvajda]

15. Lucy Baines at Astroworld

The link shows a quick video of Lucy and her toddler at Astroworld in June 1968. I'm the incredibly handsome young man wearing the green hat, orange socks, and green shorts helping her into the ride. I hope this year goes better for our nominee than it did for HH in 1968.

https://texasarchive.org/2018_00385

[wordstroken]

17. Great video!

OM goodness, dsvajda, thank you for sharing that awesome video of Lucy and her toddler at Astroworld. (Love your matching hat and suspenders!)

Wish I had a video of back in the day, when I was honored to give testimony alongside Lynda Byrd Johnson during her tenure as chair of President Carter’s Advisory Committee for Women. My testimony focus was on The Rights of Nurses.

On a personal level, I had lunch with Lynda and Senator Betty Castor. Lynda was elegant then, and continues to be one of my heroes. So glad the sisters are on board with Kamala.

Thanks again for posting your video.

Go Kamala! We can do this!!