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Posted by SLRT on Wed May 27 09:35:16 2015, in response to Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam, posted by SMAZ on Wed May 27 01:25:50 2015. If not for the Vietnam blemish, he would have been up with TR and Truman in a Top Seven of the best we ever had. He would have also gotten a second full term to do more great things.I imagine you're referring to his civil rights policy as one of the top "great things." Surely you realize that, at the time, Johnson was credited (or blamed, depending) for trying to rewrite the old argument "guns OR butter" to "guns AND butter," meaning that a war could be waged with minimal upset to the civilian population. Part of that was to propose large domestic initiatives like "The Great Society" and aggressive civil rights legislation. So the question is: "Was his civil rights emphasis heartfelt, or an attempt to distract attention from his war?" |
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