{"id":31974,"date":"2018-08-27T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31974"},"modified":"2018-08-27T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:42:54","slug":"if-lbj-could-attend-rfks-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31974","title":{"rendered":"If LBJ could attend RFK&#8217;s funeral &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>What makes the Donald Trump exclusion from John McCain&#8217;s funeral so very bizarre is that their hatred for each other barely rivals the open hostility felt between two other political giants that didn&#8217;t interfere one of them from paying tribute to the other.<\/p>\n<p>President Lyndon Johnson <em>hated<\/em> Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The feeling was quite mutual. Yet when RFK was gunned down in Los Angeles in June 1968, LBJ found time to deliver a televised statement saluting Sen. Kennedy&#8217;s service to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Then he took the time to attend RFK&#8217;s funeral in St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. McCain made it clear he didn&#8217;t want the president to attend his funeral. It would be in the president&#8217;s best interests to heed the late, great American war hero&#8217;s desire.<\/p>\n<p>The LBJ-RFK rift, though, and the fact that the president paid his respects to the late senator makes this latest statement of mistrust and disrespect so darn strange.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes the Donald Trump exclusion from John McCain&#8217;s funeral so very bizarre is that their hatred for each other barely rivals the open hostility felt between two other political giants that didn&#8217;t interfere one of them from paying tribute to the other. President Lyndon Johnson hated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The feeling was quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31974\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If LBJ could attend RFK&#8217;s funeral &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2546,2751,3930],"class_list":["post-31974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-mccain","tag-lbj","tag-rfk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31975,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974\/revisions\/31975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}