“President Johnson campaigned in the 1964 election with the promise not to escalate the war. “We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves,” he said.” How did that workout LBJ?
“I was told if I voted for Goldwater, we’d have riots in the streets, and we’d get in a long unwinnable war. Well I voted for Goldwater, and darn if they weren’t right!”