Explanation: LBJ was an American president of the 1960s, whose domestic policies are generally well-remembered as building on the ‘welfare state’ of the New Deal, greatly reducing poverty and suffering amongst the US working class.
… his foreign policy is mostly remembered for the pointless and immoral Vietnam War, even lying about the military threat of North Vietnam to sell further US involvement to the public. In the Vietnam War, hundreds-of-thousands of Vietnamese and tens-of-thousands of American troops (many of them young conscripts) died in horrific circumstances for a horrific cause, and on top of that, without any serious idea of what we wanted to achieve or how we were going to achieve it.
A pointless war with no clear objectives, aims or exit strategy? Where have I heard that one recently?
Third time this century’s a charm.
greatly reducing poverty and suffering amongst the US working class.
I smell a dirty commie!!!
is mostly remembered for the pointless and immoral Vietnam War
Ah, he’s a patriotic, democratic, peace loving American after all.
Don’t worry, the American people chose a REAL MAN in Nixon in 1968 instead, who promised ONLY death and destruction, not namby-pamby ‘government services for the public good’.
That’s Nixon.
The Vietnam war was started by Kennedy. LBJ inherited it and was poorly advised by his generals.
I mean, technically, we first got involved in Vietnam with Ike. But LBJ, as outlined in the link, was deeply involved in its escalation into the form that we had cultural scars over to this day.
Give him a break, the man had huge balls.
