Reply #31: Many, maybe most, would have been trying to drive him from office

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Notwithstanding the Great Society programs, we would have been demanding his scalp because the war -- and the opposition of progressives to the war --trumped all. The War on Poverty didn't stop people from chanting Hey Hey LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today.

At least that's what the majority here would be doing, I suspect. A few might recognize the good things he did, but no one would defend the war. I remember going to his funeral -- I was a 20 year old college student -- and being stopped by a reporter and asked what a long-haired college student was doing there. I don't remember what I said, but I acknowledged that he did some important things in the area of civil rights etc and needed to be remembered for those things. But four years earlier, while he was in office, I would never have had a good thing to say about him