That President, of course, is Lyndon Baines Johnson. It's increasingly clear that the Recall Vote in Venezuela has, to put it simply, been rigged. Read this from today's International Herald Tribune (a bastion of neo-connery if I've ever seen one).

• In one poll, when the boxes themselves were opened and counted, the "yes" vote was found to have been undercounted by 75%. Immediately after this was discovered, the ballot boxes in question were seized by the military (the boxes were opened by the local poll workers themselves).
• A number of voting machines in an area which voted overwhelmingly for the recall were found to have the exact same number of "yes" votes (133) versus unrealistic numbers of "no" votes.

I don't know why the left hasn't embraced this, it's a great argument against electronic voting machines. It looks like what happened here was that the voting machines were rigged up and tampered with.