Lyndon Johnson Sometimes Did the Right Thing

This is very interesting - I had never before seen this prior to right now.

This is an excellent example of Lyndon Johnson actually doing something right and, at a key moment refusing to be handled. Contrary to popular myth.

LBJ's brief initial statement at Andrews is rightly deemed to be completely forgettable - what I find extremely interesting and frankly rather surprising is that he has clearly personally amended the prepared remarks the staff, and done so in such a way as to completely excise the entire Cold War dimension and all hints of nationalism from the words so as to correctly characterise the day's events as a global tragedy rather than merely an American loss.

Which was absolutely the right thing to do.

Mind you, he was also trying to avert a global thermonuclear war from breaking out;