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Sep 3, 2026

LBJ and the Power Elite

from Mises Media Hosted by Murray N. Rothbard

Johnson kept the hawks and replaced doves as they were ousted. Rothbard details the July 1965 meeting at which escalation was decided and the committee of power-elite figures formed to back it, along with Ellsworth Bunker’s role in the invasion of the Dominican Republic and the sugar interests it protected.

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