McAPUSH: Jessie Bono on President Calling -- Lyndon Johnson

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Jessie Bono on President Calling -- Lyndon Johnson

I chose to listen to the podcast of President Lyndon Johnson. Honestly, I’d heard of President John F. Kennedy and of President Nixon, but I only vaguely recall hearing of President Lyndon Johnson. I think technology is amazing nowadays, that I can listen to the past on my iTouch or computer. It’s just mindblowing to think that years ago, when my 23-year-old brother studied President Johnson or Nixon or Kennedy, he studied their speeches from textbooks or heard the main topics during lectures. I get to hear their voices in person, hear the tone, hear the eloquence. It makes me feel lucky.

Anyways, after listening to the podcast of President Johnson (the speech he made to Congress and his phone conversations), I must say he sounds more like a politician than a man of honor. Even though he had the difficult task of following a man like President Kennedy, he comes across (to me) as a bit manipulative in the use of his “shock techniques” and the phrases and words he uses to describe situations America was going through doing the time. He seemed charismatic and powerful, but I don’t like how manipulative he came across as. It seems that he used his charisma to make things go his way.