Most everything people think came from LBJ came from JFK first from Vietnam to the New Frontier, including the one that killed us, the 1965 Immigration Act to replace the population.
“Most everything people think came from LBJ came from JFK”
Misreading of events. Ike & JFK had troops in Vietnam..but the military philosophy was totally opposite of LBJ, McNamara and the Whiz Kids. The strategy of both the War on Poverty and the War on Vietnam were the same:
Throw enough manpower and money at it and we are bound to win.