For example, the auditors allege that Halliburton simply refused to hand over any information on its subcontractors in Kuwait. Its the contract that keeps on giving. Using money from Lady Birds inheritance and generous infusions of cash from Brown & Root, the Johnsons bought the station, made major upgrades in its operations and squeezed federal broadcast regulators into allowing it to expand its output and change its location to a more central place on the dial. In 1948 it was also this same DC-3 that made emergency flights to Austin and Dallas in search of cash from the accounts of Brown & Root. The first two episodes of the eight-part series will debut on Monday, March 1. Ive got to call up 6,000 boys, make them leave their homes and their families. She doubted that others understood the depth of his pain.. Of course, the acquisition of Brown & Root had another great advantage for Halliburton. Lady Bird Johnson was a first lady -- but her audio diaries reveal so much more. Deaver did, tooas deputy chief of staff in the governors office, he had been tasked with what his colleagues called the Mommy Watch, charged with keeping her away from others. Each haul would net between $40,000and $50,000 for the Johnson campaign. The evidence suggests that the Pentagon used Iraqi oil proceeds to overpay Halliburton, says Waxman. Halliburton got a $200 million cost/plus contract to work in Kosovo. It simply passed the bills on to the Pentagon and cashed its reimbursement checks, complete with the 4 percent government gratuity. First lady Lady Bird Johnson is at work seated at her desk in the White House in Washington, D.C., 1964. Lady Birdthe youngest child and only daughter of a wealthy East Texas businessmantook refuge, Sweig writes, in a rich inner life that taught her how to take emotional sustenance from nature and books. An excellent student, she earned a history degree in 1933 from the University of Texas at Austin, in an era when only a small percentage of women graduated from college; she then spent a year completing a journalism degree. But despite all that public support, its clear theres trouble ahead. By the end of March 2005, more than 65 Halliburton employees had been killed in Iraq and more than 200 injuredthe most of any private contractor in the war zone. A company limousine met him at the airport and whisked away to the Brown & Root suite at the Lamar Hotel, where a victory party was in full swing featuring whiskey, women and the richest oil men in Texas men who were primed to get a lot richer. In the spring of 1949, only months after claiming his senate seat, LBJ, the former New Dealer, launched an assault on Leland Olds, the chairman of the Federal Power Commission. As our vision of high-level political partnership gets a reboot (the first-ever first lady whos not giving up her career, the first-ever second gentleman), it seems a good time to recall just how undefined the role of unelected spouse has been. But the most majestic profits, as always, were to be made during wartime and LBJ gave them a big one. Never say that Brown & Root wasnt grateful. Once I listened to her often riveting, unique and surprising diary accounts -- accounts of some of the most iconic moments in our countrys history -- I began to see that all of the volumes of history and journalism written about the 1960s -- Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, Civil Rights, and the Great Society -- suffer from a pretty big gap without her voice, without an idea of her influence. Jeffrey St. Clairis editor of CounterPunch. She listened, and she empathized with his agonized decisions. United States in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia 5: This Is What We Do (July 1967-December 1967) President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight. I cringe every time we step out of a car. The irony, as Tumulty points out, is that in allowing the presidents schedule to be determined by an unseen stranger who would know his movements, she left him more exposed, not less. Anderson was a partner in the Houston law firm of Baker Botts, the family firm of James A. Baker, III, which had represented Halliburton for many years. I have heard numerous times over the years Lady Bird Johnson's family were key stockholders in Bell Over the course of the fall of 2002 and the early winter of 2003, Halliburton executives met on several occasions with Cheneys staff at the White House and at the Pentagon. In 1992, Halliburton won a $3.9 million contract from the Pentagon in the waning days of the George H.W. LBJ was pronounced the winner of the primary by 87 votes and then went on to crush his Republican opponent in November. The situation had gotten so dire that the US Embassy in Baghdad, then under the command of John Negroponte, issued what is known as a Cure Notice, a stark warning to Halliburton executives that if the companys performance didnt improve the $1.2 billion contract would be terminated. In the fall of 1979, the Iranian revolution led to the expulsion of Halliburton from the lucrative sinecure it had enjoyed under the Shahs dictatorship. Lady Bird Johnson holds artwork while greeting a young girl during her tour of Appalachia in 1967. Of course, this decision had been set in motion much earlier and by figures far loftier in the power hierarchy of the Bush administration than lowly Lt. General Strock from the bureaucratic outback of the Corps of Engineers. For those flights, the Bush campaign reimbursed Halliburton only the cost of one first class ticket. Even here Halliburton benefited. This prison, which serves as the torture and interrogation center for Bushs wars, was originally designed to hold Haitians and, according to some sources, Cubans, in the event of the collapse of the Castro government. ABC News will kick off Womens History Month with its new podcast "In Plain Sight: Lady Bird Johnson," co-produced with Best Case Studios and hosted by author Julia Sweig. Once again, it didnt take LBJ long to pay back his political investors with interest. Each time they were bombed, Halliburton was called in to repair the damage. As a result, Halliburton flourished. He got a state judge in Texas to place an injunction against the ballots from Alice. First ladies? The spot was sunny, safe and expensive. That she understood early on that the Vietnam War might well destroy her husbands presidency. The former majority leaders power shrank while Lady Birds official ambit expanded to include public appearances, both on the campaign trail, where she stood in for a pregnant Jackie Kennedy, and as second lady. Lady Bird Johnson (born December 22, 1912) is famous for being political wife. The Halliburton audits were also concealed from a team of investigators from the United Nations, which is probing profiteering from oil contracts in Iraq. The Browns were furious at Oldss rulings and pleaded with Johnson to defeat his renomination. (A later analysis by Johnson biographer Robert Caro showed that 220 names had been added to the voters list after the polls had closed.). From this position, he launched into an onslaught on Olds, smearing the former supporter of Herbert Hoover as a communist who travels with those who proposed the Marxian answer. LBJ, who only a few years earlier had used his political muscle to secure the vast public hydropower projects on the Little Colorado with the goal of providing cheap power to the citizens of the Hill Country, now accused Olds of plotting a course toward confiscation and public ownership. WebBURNETT: At the time there was wide suspicion among newspaper columnists and the Republican minority in Congress that Brown & Root's contributions to Johnson earned it In 1943, Larry Bell who owned Bell Aerospace was convinced of a helicopter design after seeing a remote controlled model built and flown by Arthur Young. There were several other companies that could have done the job that was given to Halliburton. He destroyed the man in a set of hearings that would lay the groundwork for the show trials of the McCarthy era. Ep. The LOGCAP deal was sanctioned by none other than Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. The purpose of this conclave was to devise a project that would come to be known as RIO or Restore Iraq Oil. A few months after La Nouvelle took over, the tab soared to $1.2 million a month. During Reagans second term, she saw the peril posed by the Iran-Contra scandal and hectored a stubbornly resistant Ronnie until, in a crucial speech to the American public, he admitted to the arms-for-hostages deal, and to his own mistake. Brown & Root decided there was no turning back. The justice issued an order overturning the state judges injunction and also put the brakes on a parallel investigation into vote fraud in Jim Wells County. ABC News will kick off Womens History Month with its new podcast "In Plain Sight," co-produced with Best Case Studios and hosted by author Julia Sweig. Thats because nearly all of Halliburtons work in Iraq was farmed out to subcontractors. And Lady Bird is even sending Lyndon Johnson notes, comments on speeches and other notes during the day written on office of the vice president stationery, which, of course, Lyndon Johnson was the vice president. We just have to look. Not to worry. A Department of Justice investigation charged that Halliburton bribed the Nigerian officials in order to win a billion-dollar construction contract. They got all of the contracts to build all of the bases, roads, and airports in Vietnam. He chanced upon the infamous Box 13 from the hamlet of Alice, Texas, which contained 220 votes, all for Johnson, which was enough to push LBJ into the lead by 87 votes. Fifty-two years later, Halliburton offered its corporate jets for use by George Bush and his campaign team during the 2000 campaign and subsequent tumultuous Florida recount. Far from being the path toward a leaner military, the General Accounting Office pegged the LOGCAP program as an adventure in high risk government spending.. But you didnt hear daily drumbeats about the outrageous rip-off on FoxNews. Black was a New Dealer elevated to the high bench by FDR. Halliburton spent more than $73 million a year just to house its executives in Kuwaitthats $73 million a year billed to the Pentagon, plus a two percent profit tacked on for good measure. Cheney also approved a legally dubious scheme to set up dozens of offshore shell corporations designed to exploit Enron-style accounting hijinks in order to make Halliburtons bottom line seem more robust than it really was. Wrong. At a time when the National Press Club barred female reporters, the Womens National Press Club provided a home for the citys contingent. A GAO investigation also revealed that Halliburton was billing the Pentagon for cleaning offices in US bases the Balkans four times a day. The fraying of the social contract the Johnsons were so vital in knitting together 50 years ago. He also courted cash from every corporation and mogul he could find, promising to return their investment tenfold. She was replaced as first lady by Lyndon Johnson's wife, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, when Lyndon Johnson replaced Kennedy as president. Born in 1912 and 1921, respectively, Lady Bird and Nancy both belonged to a generation sandwiched between two feminist movements. Then thirty years after they were constructed, Halliburton was hired by the Pentagon to take control of the two terminals and get them into working condition in the earliest days of the US invasion. Lynda was born on March 19, 1944 in Washington, D.C. Soon there were other summonses from the Middle East. And then the company and the Pentagon sought to hide the evidence of these overchages from the international auditors.. LBJ, serving out JFKs term, did not have a VP. Halliburton never uttered the meekest protest about the grossly inflated fuel prices. 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. At the time of the takeover, Dresser was facing more than 66,000 claims for asbestos-related health problems from its subsidiary Harrison-Walker. The vice president demurred, as if the very name of the company was unfamiliar to him. The tricky part was trying to find the right subcontractor. Of the many images that lingered after the January inauguration of President Joe Bidenthe twinkling hand gestures of the poet Amanda Gorman, the rakish eyebrow-waggling of the second daughter, Ella Emhoffone of the more subtly significant was the scene of Doug Emhoff trying to figure out which side of his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, to stand on. On a trip to two New England colleges to give speeches supporting their new environmental studies programs, Lady Bird is confronted by outspoken dissent from both students and faculty who walk out of her speeches, picket her presence and circulate letters denouncing the war in Vietnam. The initial price-tag was pegged at $23.5 million, with Brown & Root guaranteed a profit of $1.2 million. Halliburton won another $6.3 million contract to service US troops stationed at the air base in Aviano, Italy, from which US jets launched bombing raids on Yugoslavia. Suddenly, it was. But it was politically expedient since it allowed civilian officials in the Pentagon to steer billions into the coffers of favored contractors, such as Halliburton, Lockheed and DynCorp. Luci Johnsons wedding in Washington, DC becomes the setting of dramatic anti-war protests, and Lady Bird herself is the target of a bomb threat. But even the Clinton administration showed mercy to the Republican firm. As the partnership between LBJ and Brown & Root propelled both the company and the politician to new heights of power and wealth, Halliburton was taking a different track: capitalizing on the globalization of the oil industry. In the ever-expanding universe of Pentagon contracting, cost is never the problem, public exposure is. This prototype evolved to become the Bell Model 47---the first helicopter to receive FAA Certification. Halliburton later discreetly disclosed that it may have paid upwards of $180 million in bribes. An Army Corps of Engineers email, uncovered by Time Magazine, disclosed that the initial decision to have Halliburton draft the RIO plan had been coordinated with the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. The Defense Contract Audit Agency report comes on top of previous investigations tagging Halliburton, and its Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary, for more than $442 million in unsupported billings for its work in Iraq, including charges for meals that were never served, $45 cases of pop, unnecessary heavy equipment, tailoring fees and $152,000 for movie screenings. Claudia Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007) was an American first lady (1963-69) and the wife of Lyndon Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. There was another curious hitch to the Halliburton RIO deal. Running as a New Dealer and fueled by cash from Herman Brown, Johnson embarked on a fabulously corrupt campaign against the populist governor of Texas, W. Lee Pass the Biscuits, Pappy ODaniel, a flour magnate and the states most popular radio personality. Pentagon auditors concluded that La Nouvelle was overbilling for its laundry services alone by at least $1 million a month, with Halliburton enjoying its slice of the profits without even having had to break a sweat. Despite a lot of baiting from the US military and the most bellicose voices of in Bush administration, Saddam didnt ignite the Basra oil fields. For her part, Lady Bird discovered that marriage promised her broader horizons than the teaching job she had envisioned. Apparently, Halliburton views these kickbacks and bribes as a kind of a priori cost of doing business across the globe.

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