They hated to spend nights apart, and famously (or infamously) called each other Mommie and Daddy. 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. Johnson also prevailed upon the Bell Helicopter Company, which would soon relocate to Texas, to loan him a chopper for his campaign. Bird Johnson For example, Halliburton sent the Pentagon a bill for $240 million in dining hall charges for feeding 4,700 troops each day. In late 1963 the North Vietnamese greatly increased supplies of weapons and equipment to the Vietcong and infiltrated regular army units into the South. Olds, a former muckraking reporter, was appointed by FDR to head the commission, which set power rates and regulated natural gas prices. In 1919, Red Halliburton started the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company from his home in Wilson, Oklahoma, a hardscrabble town in the oil patch. That her thing about flowers was really a cover for a pretty radical environmentalism. In the Democratic primary, Stevenson steamrollered Johnson by more than 70,000 votes; yet in a crowded field, the governor didnt top 50 per cent, forcing a run-off election in the fall. One former Halliburton employee said that the company had inflated costs on 224 different projects in Kosovo. But shes met with open hostility, and worse. Try $5 billion. The cost overruns in Vietnam quickly swelled and soon caught the attention of auditors with the General Accounting Office. When the oil boom hit Texas, the wildcatters and other drillers quickly began experiencing problems with their deep shafts. Lyndon Johnson belonged to a generation of men who regarded sex as a perk of power. Let me take the tough ones, she said, shouldering what was arguably the hardest, most thankless, and personally riskiest task of the campaign, Sweig writes, given the hate and outrage among many white southerners after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. These claims eventually totaled something on the order of $5.5 billion, an amount that threatened to bankrupt Halliburton. In 2003, he was asked about his financial ties to Halliburton. And then there was NR v Donald Regan, the White House chief of staff she managed to oust after much mutual combat. The contract was another of the notorious cost-plus deals, where Halliburton simply faxed over receipts to the Pentagon and got fully reimbursed, along with a guaranteed 1 percent profit and performance bonuses that went as high as 8 percent of the total costs. License granted by CSK Legacy, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, as exclusive licensor of Coretta Scott King's estate. (There was also yellow, for iffy ones.) In a memo to Lyndon just five months into his presidency, Lady Bird predicts how the Vietnam war will derail his administration, and proposes a clear end-date for his time in office -- fully four years before he shocked the nation with his announcement in March of 1968 that he wouldn't run for reelection. Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign Affairs | Miller Center In Iraq, LOGCAP would be a recipe for rampant fraud over the basic of services. He helped me get out. Kennedy was the first president to approve the sale of He later served as a key figure on the Bush-Cheney transition team. He and Lady Bird fretted about money during the early years of their marriage. She shared his belief in American exceptionalism and defended his policies, digging in as protesters challenged the escalation of the war.