He and his buddies also smeared BGen. Barry Goldwater with the ‘warmonger’ label when he said he wasn’t going in.
Goldwater would have gone in early and hard: bomb Hanoi and the dikes on the Red River, and mine Haiphong so the Soviet ships couldn’t get in with SAMs. Not waiting until 1972 to do all that.
Johnson wasn’t just a liar, he was an idiot.
Nixon had more sense than LBJ.