by David Macadam @ The Oligarch Kings…. President Lyndon Baines
Johnson was solid establishment, if not blue blooded Oligarch.
The thirty-sixth President of the United States had been born to
frontier folk in Texas. The Johnsons went back five generations
before his grandfather Sam, to James Johnston (with a “t”) of
Currowaugh Virginia, and he may have been the son of an even
earlier colonial settler in Nansemond County, born about 1662.
His older relatives had fought for the South in the Civil war
before establishing small homesteads against the hills that
flanked the Pedernales river. The young LBJ soon moved with his
family to Johnson City (population about 100) when he was small.
His grandfather Sam and his grand-uncle James Polk Johnson had
founded the town and given it the family name. Politics was in
the blood. His father was Samuel Johnson and a member of the
Texas State Legislature. Sam married Rebekah Baines whose own
grandfather George Washington Baines was President of Baylor
University. For our i