If you thought Johnson was a hawk you should have seen Goldwater. There simply were very few doves in that period. There were two who voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (not unlike Barbara Lee) and they were not very popular. The Vietnam War was the work of a flawed foreign policy that predated Johnson. It was maily Henry Lodge's pushing for the coup against Diem that forced American's hand in Vietnam. Don't tell me you considered Lodge a Democrat.
Don't tell me you considered Lodge a Democrat. No. Henry Cabot Lodge was an Eastern Establishment Moderate Republican. But then, he wasn't President. Kennedy and Johnson were running the country during that period - not Lodge.
Are you trying to say that the Ambassador to a country has more power than the President? BS.
Face it. Johnson was a SCUMBAG and he will forever go down in history as a SCUMBAG.