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In reply to the discussion: Lyndon Baines Johnson - Good President or Bad President [View all]LynneSin
(95,337 posts)7. Not really that complicated. If it wasn't for the Vietnam War he would have been one of the best
You look at your list and there are SIX different issues you brought up that were all good under Johnson.
But the Bad technically was a list of 5 things all related to one - Vietnam War.
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Yep, that's the ticket. A mentally-ill sharp-shooter who could race down stairs and not breathe
WinkyDink
Sep 2012
#43
Ask the widow or orphan of anyone who died in Vietnam about your second sentence...
regnaD kciN
Sep 2012
#12
Not really that complicated. If it wasn't for the Vietnam War he would have been one of the best
LynneSin
Sep 2012
#7
About 416,500 U.S. Servicemen died in WWII between 1941 and 1945. Was Roosevelt a bad President? n/t
Agnosticsherbet
Sep 2012
#37
You do know that Johnson did not start Vietnam. Out involvement began in 1956, with 401 deaths.
Agnosticsherbet
Sep 2012
#60
Yes, had relatives in the Pacific, European, and North African theaters.
Agnosticsherbet
Sep 2012
#61
LBJ was a very friendly President. I did not know him personally, but he still saw fit to send me
retread
Sep 2012
#19
I really don't like him...he was corrupt...but he did create ONE good thing...MEDICARE.
roamer65
Sep 2012
#48
He also gave us the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicaid and a bunch of education bills
StevieM
Sep 2012
#62
He was an pretty awful person. a pretty good president, and he gets better in retrospect. n/t
RichardRay
Sep 2012
#49
That damn war. Last progressive president. Great. Terrible. Complicated.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#56
I want to make a point about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to Viet Nam War
1-Old-Man
Sep 2012
#68
It's easy for someone who didn't live through that era, didn't have to live with the
raccoon
Sep 2012
#70