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62. He also gave us the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicaid and a bunch of education bills

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Lyndon Baines Johnson - Good President or Bad President [View all] Taverner Sep 2012 OP

Sigh BeyondGeography Sep 2012 #1

longterm beneifts are still with us and he never sucked up to republicans... msongs Sep 2012 #2

All set to say No Politicalboi Sep 2012 #3

I think I am the only person on DU who believes the Warren Report Taverner Sep 2012 #4

I Agree With You Re Oswald. Paladin Sep 2012 #11

Read James Summers' "JFK and the Unspeakable" hifiguy Sep 2012 #13

I've read all this in other sources Taverner Sep 2012 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #22

Oh it was incomplete Taverner Sep 2012 #23

This message was self-deleted by its author AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #31

Yep, that's the ticket. A mentally-ill sharp-shooter who could race down stairs and not breathe WinkyDink Sep 2012 #43

You're not the only one. ballabosh Sep 2012 #55

He was too smart to have had Kennedy killed in Texas Freddie Stubbs Sep 2012 #9

Really? Where else would LBJ have held sway? MACBIRD. WinkyDink Sep 2012 #44

I've lived in Texas most of my life... MicaelS Sep 2012 #59

The good things he did endure.. Agnosticsherbet Sep 2012 #5

Ask the widow or orphan of anyone who died in Vietnam about your second sentence... regnaD kciN Sep 2012 #12

I know a woman in her 40's who is still mad she never got to meet her father Taverner Sep 2012 #21

I served. I agree with the sentence I wrote.... Agnosticsherbet Sep 2012 #36

under clinton the following should be mentioned dsc Sep 2012 #52

Yes, but Gays still needed to serve in Secret. Agnosticsherbet Sep 2012 #63

not in the rest of government they didn't dsc Sep 2012 #65

Nixon was President from 1969 to 1974. As in: It wasn't all LBJ. WinkyDink Sep 2012 #45

He'd have been great except for Vietnam... regnaD kciN Sep 2012 #6

Not really that complicated. If it wasn't for the Vietnam War he would have been one of the best LynneSin Sep 2012 #7

Ah but that issue WAS a doozy.... Taverner Sep 2012 #15

About 416,500 U.S. Servicemen died in WWII between 1941 and 1945. Was Roosevelt a bad President? n/t Agnosticsherbet Sep 2012 #37

World War II was necesarry. The Vietnam War was not. Taverner Sep 2012 #38

You do know that Johnson did not start Vietnam. Out involvement began in 1956, with 401 deaths. Agnosticsherbet Sep 2012 #60

You've heard of Pearl Harbor? WinkyDink Sep 2012 #46

Yes, had relatives in the Pacific, European, and North African theaters. Agnosticsherbet Sep 2012 #61

Plus, if it hadn't been for Vietnam... regnaD kciN Sep 2012 #17

"Hey, Hey, LBJ how many kids did you kill today?" Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2012 #8

Let me invoke Michelle Obama and Robert Caro. hifiguy Sep 2012 #10

Let me throw in an article from the Atlantic in 73 Taverner Sep 2012 #14

Thanks for that great link. hifiguy Sep 2012 #24

Put me down for a *sigh*. Brigid Sep 2012 #16

He is one of my 50/50 people. Are_grits_groceries Sep 2012 #18

LBJ was a very friendly President. I did not know him personally, but he still saw fit to send me retread Sep 2012 #19

Viet Nam was terrible for him standingtall Sep 2012 #25

I blame France Taverner Sep 2012 #27

That much is true standingtall Sep 2012 #29

He sent me to college. morningglory Sep 2012 #26

Hell, I didn't know he turned into a hippie in his last days madokie Sep 2012 #28

Love this part Taverner Sep 2012 #39

LBJ, 1972 nyquil_man Sep 2012 #57

Not a question with a binary answer. MineralMan Sep 2012 #30

Overall Good, i think many others could easily have done the Vietnam Mess JI7 Sep 2012 #32

Wasn't JFK far more to blame for Vietnam jsmirman Sep 2012 #33

Yes he was Taverner Sep 2012 #40

No he wasn't. former9thward Sep 2012 #50

Correct... (JFK in his own words) MinM Sep 2012 #58

I gotta tell you, my understanding is he sent in a lot of Americans jsmirman Sep 2012 #64

Vietnam: JFK's decision against escalation MinM Sep 2012 #67

The most progressive of my lifetime (so far) Tom Ripley Sep 2012 #34

Good on domestic policy, bad on foreign policy LeftishBrit Sep 2012 #35

LBJ cycle rider Sep 2012 #41

I think about punching reporters in the stomach all the time Nevernose Sep 2012 #42

LBJ reply. cycle rider Sep 2012 #47

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

Boil it down Stinky The Clown Sep 2012 #51

He was both etherealtruth Sep 2012 #53

I saw a documentary on LBJ once Canuckistanian Sep 2012 #54

That damn war. Last progressive president. Great. Terrible. Complicated. Warren Stupidity Sep 2012 #56

hippie? I missed that one! flamingdem Sep 2012 #66

I want to make a point about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to Viet Nam War 1-Old-Man Sep 2012 #68

oh that is just nonsense Warren Stupidity Sep 2012 #69

It's easy for someone who didn't live through that era, didn't have to live with the raccoon Sep 2012 #70

Oh, and it's easy to dread every day Are_grits_groceries Sep 2012 #71