Possible but that is not my recall in my market. As to the Wa Po, they are scum bag liars and have been for decades. So...no apology to them. LBJ destroyed America. Everything that had happened to wither America before LBJ was survivable, but not the Great Society. That was the killing blow. Johnson, I hope you rot in hell for what you did.
I think that the train left the station under Wilson, and I can’t really conceive of how it might have been stopped after FDR. Johnson no doubt speeded things up, and Obama has shifted things into Warp speed, but after the New Deal, I think that eventual destruction was inevitable.