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Showing Original Post only (View all)Lyndon Baines Johnson - Good President or Bad President [View all]
Good:- Great Society Programs
- Civil Rights Act
- Superfunding NASA
- Immigration Reform
- "War on Poverty"
- Became a hippie in his last days
Bad:
- Tonkin Gulf Resolution (a lie that we were attacked by North Vietnam)
- Not a very nice person (punched reporters in the stomach, et al)
- Escalated Vietnam
- Bombed North Vietnam
- Responsible for the deaths of 1K soldiers per month
29 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited | |
Yes, he was a good President | |
14 (48%) |
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No, he was a bad President | |
2 (7%) |
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Sigh - it's complicated | |
13 (45%) |
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Other | |
0 (0%) |
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1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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Yep, that's the ticket. A mentally-ill sharp-shooter who could race down stairs and not breathe
WinkyDink
Sep 2012
#43
Ask the widow or orphan of anyone who died in Vietnam about your second sentence...
regnaD kciN
Sep 2012
#12
Not really that complicated. If it wasn't for the Vietnam War he would have been one of the best
LynneSin
Sep 2012
#7
About 416,500 U.S. Servicemen died in WWII between 1941 and 1945. Was Roosevelt a bad President? n/t
Agnosticsherbet
Sep 2012
#37
You do know that Johnson did not start Vietnam. Out involvement began in 1956, with 401 deaths.
Agnosticsherbet
Sep 2012
#60
Yes, had relatives in the Pacific, European, and North African theaters.
Agnosticsherbet
Sep 2012
#61
LBJ was a very friendly President. I did not know him personally, but he still saw fit to send me
retread
Sep 2012
#19
I really don't like him...he was corrupt...but he did create ONE good thing...MEDICARE.
roamer65
Sep 2012
#48
He also gave us the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicaid and a bunch of education bills
StevieM
Sep 2012
#62
He was an pretty awful person. a pretty good president, and he gets better in retrospect. n/t
RichardRay
Sep 2012
#49
That damn war. Last progressive president. Great. Terrible. Complicated.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#56
I want to make a point about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to Viet Nam War
1-Old-Man
Sep 2012
#68
It's easy for someone who didn't live through that era, didn't have to live with the
raccoon
Sep 2012
#70