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In reply to the discussion: Why do democrats rarely talk about Lyndon Johnson? [View all]blogslut
(37,999 posts)31. LBJ gets lots of love here
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You equate your list with the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, support for education?
Blue_true
Dec 2019
#24
Uh, Nixon vetoed the Clean Water Act and the Democratic Congress overrode it.
NYC Liberal
Dec 2019
#35
Some things are just plain unforgivable, i.e. falsifying a naval battle to get us into war
Tarc
Dec 2019
#25
LBJ will always live in JFK's shadow. Even though he passed the Civil Rights Act he fucked up
TeamPooka
Dec 2019
#33
He willingly went along with that little white lie known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident
Jake Stern
Dec 2019
#38