LBJ: Domestic achievements vs foreign policy

[Virginiá]

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[Blue3]

I don't think "make up" are the right words to use... but if you're asking if it was better if his presidency had never existed and was erased with history along with all its accomplishments good and bad... versus existing as it does... I'd choose not erase his presidency even though it means keeping his bad accomplishments along with his good accomplishments.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I don't think "make up" are the right words to use... but if you're asking if it was better if his presidency had never existed and was erased with history along with all its accomplishments good and bad... versus existing as it does... I'd choose not erase his presidency even though it means keeping his bad accomplishments along with his good accomplishments.

This, especially since most politicians of his time would have had a similar or worse foreign policy.

[Mr. Smith]

Yeah, 'Nam was a tough place for any politicians at that time. Those with the restrained hawkishness of JFK were rare, and pacifism wasn't that big a seller at all until '68 and the Tet Offensive backlash.

In the meantime Johnson got tremendous domestic achievements through after Ike, JFK, and Truman were at points muted out by The Conservative Coalition because of Civil Rights. It can't be stressed enough how bent those segregationists could get trying to keep segregation staying up.