Was Lyndon Johnson a good President?

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Best president in the past 50 years.

Cry me a river about Vietnam, because literally every President since sans Carter is guilty of something like it.

So yeah, the silly neocon that brought forth the Great Society and CRA of 1964 is definitely superior to the silly neocons who also bring forth silly Reaganomics

Other presidents got 58,000 Americans killed in a half-assed symbolic military campaign?

Attributing Vietnam solely to Johnson ignores the fact that Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon all supported the war and probably would have done the same thing Johnson did had they been in office.    That doesn't excuse LBJ's actions, but it does put them into perspective. Judging presidents outside the context of their times is a useless endeavor and serves only to pad our fragile modern egos.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

I don't see what's so bad about signing Civil Rights legislation, creating Medicare, Medicaid, putting a man on the Moon, creating NASA (this he did before becoming President, too), creating Head Start, signing the first real gun control laws, signing the first real Environmentalist laws with the Clean Air Act and Clean Highways Act, putting a ton of nurses to work with the Nurse Training Act, making college much more accessible, and creating PBS. Truly a horrible guy.

Civil Rights = Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander knew color meant nothing opposed the Brown ruling and enforced it only when the alternative was a violent mob
Medicaid + Medicare = worst single-payer systems on the planet More cost effective than private health insurance
Anti-pollution = decent work
Nurse Training Act = shoddy version of what the military did during WWII Increased the number of nurses and the likelihood that they would stick with their chosen profession
PBS = Propaganda wing of the Democratic Party, thankfully libs are more interested in documentaries than propaganda.....until their funding might get cut. "This program funded in part by... David H. Koch" (actual quote that appears at the beginning of most science programs)

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