He knew each and every member. He knew what they needed. He knew what they didnt want anybody to know. The part that i find just wonder russ is how in a day could he do what he did and how did he come to know so much about each and every member . You nailed it. He had this encyclopedic knowledge of not only the legislative process, but of the people around it. Hue better humphrey described lbj as a psychiatrist. He could read you. He knew it moerveated you. He knew what might motivate bob was different from what motivate linda or larry. He got that. And he used it. He exploited it. Theres an expression, that people are motivated by either love or fear. And you need to know the right combination in order to get them to act. Lbj got that and he used to apply something that was legendarily known in washington as the johns ontreatment or just the treatment. There was no doubt who was applying it. Johnson was the master of that and he used a combination of flattery or threatening or whateve
This runs an hour and 20 minutes. We convene to discuss something of utmost important to the committee on aging. Fraud against seniors. Con artists will pose as federal and state agencies to steal benefits. Theyll falsify, i should say, romantic relationships to gain a seniors trust. And by way of a third example, peddle fake Health Insurance and cures for the virus. They are also using new Payment Methods making losses difficult to trace. The federal trade Commission Reports tbift cards are the main Payment Method used by scammers to request and steal money from older dulls. In 2021, 27 of adults 60 and older who lost money paid a scammer using a gift card or a reloadable card. Peertopeer payment apps like zelle, venmo, cashapp and paypal are also increasingly used by scammers. Today, aurelia will share her experience with a peertopeer payment scam. Her story is all too common. Scammers request payments from seniors by way of these apps have increased exponentially from 2 in 2017 to 1
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