Johnson was a sneaky, back slapping, If theyve read any of the LBJ histories, they might remember that she used her inheritance to finance Lyndons first congressional campaign. A GAO investigation also revealed that Halliburton was billing the Pentagon for cleaning offices in US bases the Balkans four times a day. The Pentagon rejected 12 separate requests from Congressman Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who has spearheaded the ad hoc congressional inquiry into Halliburtons contract abuse, seeking to examine the internal audits of Halliburtons $2.5 billion contract for fuel supplies and other services to the US military and occupation government in Iraq. Indeed, a few months earlier Halliburton had already been paid $1.9 million to draft a plan for how to implement RIO. Three New Revelations About In her East Wing policy shop, Lady Bird began to build a portfolio of environmental policies, working with Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. The vice president demurred, as if the very name of the company was unfamiliar to him. and in my book "Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight,", Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Over the next 25 years, the company cashed in on more than $10 billion in contracts with Iran. diaries reveal Lady Bird Johnson The most surprising moments from LBJs secretly recorded calls In the late winter of 1937, the imperious Texas Congressman James P. Bucky Buchanan, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, suddenly died in office. Nancys mother, Edie Davis, was a stage actor whose glamorous social life included Spencer Tracy and Mary Martin. The remarkable thing is that Halliburtons looting of Iraq and the US treasury happened in broad daylight, right under the nose of the press, the Democrats and Michael Moore, who made Dick Cheneys former company the bete noir of his film 9/11. Nothing deterred the company from capitalizing on the war it helped orchestrate. Not necessarily the company that would do the best job, but the one that would charge the most for the work, since Halliburtons built-in profits came as a fixed percentage of the costs. "He had no stomach for it," she told me, "no heart for it; it wasn't the war he wanted. Thomas Jefferson Taylor II, merchant, philanthropist, and father of Lady Bird Johnson, was born on August 29, 1874, in Autauga County, Alabama, the son of Thomas Jefferson and Emma Louisa (Bates) Taylor.
