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RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)

8. Yeah

Reply to Warpy (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 4, 2012, 03:56 PM

Dec 2012

If he had been a peace-nik he'd have never made it to office, ever.

The whole "Stop Communism" was the legacy of the WW2 warriors who owned the country then. LBJ was just caught up in the mess and he had to go along to get along or he was nothing and a nobody.

As it is, he was a great somebody who did a hell of a lot for a great number of people.

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Wow! I was googling to find a pix of LBJ with long hair & found an old DU thread from 2004 [View all] graham4anything Dec 2012 OP

Sorry, but you don't have JFK on there life long demo Dec 2012 #1

I can't see a photo on this thread or the other thread waddirum Dec 2012 #2

What waddirum said. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2012 #3

LBJ did a lot of great things, but shit on his own legacy with his intransigence on Vietnam. Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #4

I don't see any photos of LBJ so I'll offer this cool one Brother Buzz Dec 2012 #5

Photo of LBJ with Long hair graham4anything Dec 2012 #6

I've always thought ramping up the Vietnam War Warpy Dec 2012 #7

Yeah RobertEarl Dec 2012 #8

Yup! That is why I base my views on social issues and from the poor up. graham4anything Dec 2012 #9

I just had a bunch of dental work done and might not be thinking straight LeftInTX Dec 2012 #10

If LBJ preservered, Bobby never would have entered the race(fact)and been alive in 1972(hope) graham4anything Dec 2012 #12

The Vietnam War was the price TPTB/MIC exacted from LBJ hifiguy Dec 2012 #14

Strange... I've never met anyone whose top five matched mine exactly. Democracyinkind Dec 2012 #11

Wow, I never did either. graham4anything Dec 2012 #13