His opinion counts for something.
That's high praise for the man. I'm currently re-reading de Tocqueville's books and continue to be astounded at the depths he sounded about the US culture and goverment.
Based on your comment, I'll have to give Johnson's work a look. I tend to avoid modern historians, because most of them are out and out Marxists.
The only area, as presented in this article, in which I question him is his statement that the era of big government as the solution to all ills started in the sixties with the Kennedys. I see it as starting in the thirties with FDR. He was responsible for the graduated income tax, social security, and all the New Deal government make-work programs. LBJ was more of the big government guy than Kennedy.
However, Johnson’s remark was more along the lines of a federal budget deficit as the driving force behind this and I don’t know, and am too lazy to research, the deficits under FDR. Johnson made exceptions for unusually events like WWII, so I guess the war years don’t count.