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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed May 27 01:52:56 2015, in response to Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam, posted by AlM on Wed May 27 01:29:43 2015. I got into political reporting as my first gig with WBAI in the summer of 1968. In that role, I became a junior member of the Washington press corps although others did the White House beat. I pulled duty at the Pentagon and State Department whenever there was a story we needed to cover out of New York.I was told by the old timers that the reason that Johnson quit revolved around several things. First off, the signing of the Civil Rights Act caused southern democrats to tell him flat out that he would NEVER get another bill voted on in revenge for signing CRA. In addition to that, he had been carrying solitary blame for Viet Nam even though the advisor role began with Eisenhower and the first troops were sent in by Kennedy. When Walter Cronkite on the evening news blamed him and reported that the American people had turned against him, he believed that he was rendered impotent among both northern and southern voters and his legacy would be denied. That's why he pulled the plug so I was told way back then. |
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