Ranking of Lyndon B. Johnson

[Beet]

LBJ was one of those bureaucratic screwball types who should have remained Vice President or Senate Majority Leader, because that was what he was made for. The same goes for Richard Nixon... Watergate or not, he was not fit to be President. People remember Nixon for his accomplishments, but they forget the big picture that the nation continued to drift without direction during his administration. Johnson was made of the same cloth. Kennedy wanted action with purpose and direction; Johnson gave us action but without purpose or direction. That is why Kennedy is far more admired than Johnson, even though Johnson did more legislatively. It is more than just the Vietnam war. There is the sense that had Kennedy survived, it would have all worked out better. No one knows, but there's certainly that sense.