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Good question... perhaps because he was a corrupt uncooth Texican? A necessary evil on the ticket of Camelot-Boy?
LBJ isn't mentioned because they want to pretend that the Vietnam War was thought up by Nixon.
Vietnam.
I've always believed it was Vietnam.
As much as the Dems wanted everyone to believe that Vietnam was "Nixon's War", it really wasn't. It was Johnson's.
Liberals like to blame Nixon, and, they will never face reality if facing reality causes them to give up a beloved fantasy. Mentioning LBJ would take them too close to reality, so they avoid him.
Simple as that.
Regards,
Also, becuae his Presidency was short and ended almost 40 years ago. He is long dead and his term was sorounded by other significant Presidencies (Roosevelt to Reagan). He was also a crude Texan which Lib's don't like (they prefer crude manhattanites). Hard to believe but his term of office was as far back as Coolidge's was then, and Keennedy's as far back as Harding's.
Halliburton.
He and his wife where, and his children are the biggest founding stock owners.
My $0.02:
-He isn't FDR
-He isn't a Yankee
-He took over from JFK (through no fault of his own)
-He is a Southerner (Texans may dispute that tag - fair enough)
-He waged and escalated a huge war
-He remained an adult during the everyone-back-to-their-childhood 1960s
-He didn't give it the bit-lip, wipe-a-tear routine when talking about poverty, even though he wrote some huge gummint checks.
Same reason we don't often mention Nixon.
Compare to today's liberals where they are rejecting Lieberman for his strong national defense stance.
Reminds me of one of the old stories about LBJ(there were many and who knows which ones were true).
He's tooling around the Johnson Ranch in his station wagon with a host of Secret Service agents in pursuit. Finally, he stops, gets out and proceeds to unzip his fly to relieve himself. Instinctively, the agents circle around the president while he's making his bladder gladder. The wind kicks up and moves his stream against the leg of an agent. The agent says "Mr. President, you're peeing on me!" The president replies, "son, that's my privilege."
Sometimes they mention his name to pay tribute to Medicare, Voting Rights Act, etc., but they hold him at arm's length because they're scared of his many failures in Vietnam and the so-called "War on Poverty".
You couldn't be more right about this & it's an excellent question, because he did more to advance the reach of the all-powerful nanny-state so near & dear to the heart of those who call themselves "liberal", although there's nothing remotely liberal about the idea that average citizens' lives have to forcibly managed from cradle to grave by those who fancy themselves more enlightened, than anybody. But I think Tijeras Slim is on to something: there seems to be the taint of sainted Kennedy blood on the man, at least in their eyes.
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It's all about VW. That's why he didn't run in 1968.
He was the last Democrat who loved his country. He was a bastard, but he wasn't willing to sell out the US. To be a good Liberal nowadays who have to hate America. No matter what you think about his policies LBJ thought America was the best damn country on the planet (and he was right.)
Lyndon's daughters had a guest column in the Houston Chronicle the other day. They had the nerve to use his name in the same sentence with the Voting Rights Act. LOL!! Think of the rigged elections he was involved with!! And they want to bring up his name and voting rights!
"NASS President and Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed nominated Johnson for the award and expressed his admiration for the former president’s political courage."
Sam Reed is WA states RINO (he might as well be a Democrat) Secretary of State.
I have long contended that LBJ was one of the absolute worst presidents. I'm too recently returned to the world of the wakeful to go through a list of reasons, but suffice it to say it can be very well summed up in one word: Vietnam. Or two words, depending on your dictionary: Viet Nam. He lurched through his presidency before he crashed and burned, taking our nation to new depths of ignominy.
The libs never mention him because LBJ was a liability in every way. His excesses could make bubba's seem juvenile. He was JFK's biggest mistake.