[rollo tomasi]

I will conclude that Vietnam was pivotal in shaping the modern day democrat party (One reason why Burns is a "yellow dog"). LBJ was eaten by his own creation as the social justice warriors at the time took control of the party. Worst thing LBJ did was push for a draft off an undeclared war. Civil rights "icon" became a pariah after that, but his wife's family/political moneymen sure got wealthier.

[Tammy8]

I agree with that, that is when the left built their power. Talk about not letting a crisis go to waste, they didn’t.

I don’t know that Johnson was such a pariah- to conservatives of course and especially to Vietnam Veterans who knew the truth but he really wasn’t with the left. The left has been many years covering for him- to the point many younger people don’t know he had anything to do with Vietnam, they only know him as the “Champion of Civil Rights” which of course he was not that either. The left has been teaching for years that Vietnam was “Nixon’s War” and getting away with it.

Johnson family sure did get wealthy off of Vietnam, that is a fact.