06-11-2015, 03:33 AM
I really don't see how anyone can make a claim for LBJ being a great president.
Even if one leans over backwards and tries not to give him the full blame for the war, I mean it was him sending more and more troops over there. It was him authorizing Rolling Thunder. No one else could do that.
When you add in some of the other things, like Indonesia, probably the bloodiest CIA coup in history, and Brazil, and Dominican Republic, and Greece, and Congo etc. I mean what the heck are these people talking about?
The first civil rights act was started by JFK. The Voting Rights Act was actually caused by King over Selma.
Johnson was a part of both of them but he was not at all Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill.
And then when one also adds in what he did in the Middle East, for his buddies the Rockefellers, I mean give me a break. LBJ represented the worst aspects of the whole Democratic version of the anti communist crusade.
Even if one leans over backwards and tries not to give him the full blame for the war, I mean it was him sending more and more troops over there. It was him authorizing Rolling Thunder. No one else could do that.
When you add in some of the other things, like Indonesia, probably the bloodiest CIA coup in history, and Brazil, and Dominican Republic, and Greece, and Congo etc. I mean what the heck are these people talking about?
The first civil rights act was started by JFK. The Voting Rights Act was actually caused by King over Selma.
Johnson was a part of both of them but he was not at all Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill.
And then when one also adds in what he did in the Middle East, for his buddies the Rockefellers, I mean give me a break. LBJ represented the worst aspects of the whole Democratic version of the anti communist crusade.