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Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam |
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Posted by SMAZ on Wed May 27 03:04:54 2015, in response to Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed May 27 01:52:56 2015. 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.But he got plenty of important bills passed between 64-68. In addition to that, he had been carrying solitary blame for Viet Nam even though the adviser role began with Eisenhower and the first troops were sent in by Kennedy. And deservingly so. The advisers under Ike and JFK only numbered in the few thousands. LBJ asked for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. LBJ escalated the war to the point where we had over half a million troops in-country and about 40,000 dead by the time he left office. It is said that he abandoned his re-election effort after Eugene McCarthy almost beat in the NH primary. That kind of vulnerability made it inevitable that RFK would enter the race against him. Which he did right after that primary. |
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