Before Kennedy was killed, Johnson defied President Eisenhower for Israhell

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QuoteWhen President Eisenhower communicated his plan for sanctions against Israel to Senate leaders, the then Sen. Johnson called on Mr. Eisehower and bluntly informed him that the Senate would not approve economic sanctions against Israel. The outspoken Texan told the Eisenhower Administration that threats to impose sanctions on Israel were unwise and unfair, and that he was against "pressure on one side in a two-sided dispute." Deploring the attempted "coercion" of Israel as a "method of settlement," Mr. Johnson told the Eisenhower Administration it had lost sight of the basic facts in the Israel-Arab dispute.

Eisenhower Reveals His 1957 Aims to Penalize Israel on Sinai Issue
https://www.jta.org/1965/09/22/archive/eisenhower-reveals-his-1957-aims-to-penalize-israel-on-sinai-issue