[okie01]

LBJ is a real toughie for the liberals to deal with.

Most of his legacy is an unmitigated disaster: Viet Nam, the War on Poverty, the much overlooked budget unification act -- when the Social Security budget was consolidated with the government operating budget, so that we could "afford" both a War in Viet Nam and a War on Poverty. All illustrate the utter failure of "good intentions".

Meanwhile, all the positive parts of his legacy (the Civil Rights Act, e.g.) were fostered by cynical, self-serving political calculation -- i.e., "bad intentions".

As a nation, and on balance, we would be better off without LBJ and his dubious works.

[Paulus Invictus]

He was also another RAT prez that enriched himself through corrupt "donations" he got in exchange for favors to the donors. He made Klintoon look look a piker at taking graft. He was nothing more than an impoverished Texan school teacher at the start and ended up a multi-millionnaire, like the Felon, but LBJ was a better thief.

LBJ was also an immoralist, like JFK and the Felon, using WH secretaries as his personal concubines. RATS are all scum, but put them in the Oval Office and they become sewer scum.