Reply #73: Here's a clue for you: LBJ was complicated. [View All]

[freddie mertz]

In some ways, he may have been our greatest president. And he had great early success with historic progressive social legislation. That is the LBJ that some people want.

Then there was the LBJ of the Vietnam war disaster. No one wants that LBJ.

There's no contradiction in seeing some extreme poles in the LBJ record. They are there, rather famously in fact.