Sean Scruggs - President Calling

I listened to LBJ address congress after JFK's assassination.  He seems to be speaking as an honest man and is sad that JFK was killed, but wants to continue his work.  In some parts he seems to be more of a politician saying that passing certain (specific) bills would "memorialize JFK more than a monument".  He seems genuinely sad that the president was killed, but is ready to assume the "awesome responsibility" of presidency.  He should be sad, it was a grave time in history, America lost a president by assassination.  That doesn't happen often or pretty much ever.  He however did try to make some political points mentioning key bills in his speech.  Some might say that it was inappropriate to try to push bills along while confronting the issue of an American president being assassinated, others might say he was taking advantage of the opportunity.  It probably didn't matter in the long run that those comments were made, but we will never know because these people in congress that were addressed know that Kennedy pushed for some bills and others not as much.  They would probably act accordingly and possibly subconsciously in the way they would have if LBJ not brought it up at that particular moment in time.  All in all he handled the situation very well, no one wants to be in that position.  Considering how that position was vacated I think a lot of people would definitely not want to be in that position.