Imagine being President and having the Vietnam situation and Presidency dumped in your lap, while facing a public that had their nose jammed up Jane Fonda's arse.
I defend LBJ because I have taken the time to learn the truth, rather than have knee-jerk reactions supplied to me by the media.
So many believe that LBJ had Kennedy assasinated so he could be President. There is nothing further from the truth.
The ones that want the public to buy that are the ones that control many politicians and the media. It boils down to one person, actually. A person that may have had a President killed because the President was involved in the death of a major source of income for this person and his business. That person is still in control of the business, and maybe after he dies, the truth will come out. Maybe not.
When I was a child, I believed (led by the media,parents, etc) that the GREAT SOCIETY didn't include me. I am a WHITE MALE, so, if it didn't include WHITE MALES, who could it have included?
The point is that I didn't let the non-inclusion into the concept of a GREAT SOCIETY stop me.
That LBJ was raised in a time and place where the mental framework of WHITE MALES was that all BLACKS were somehow inferior, lower class, and unacceptable to the Great Society, is very possible. He was from Texas. That idea was very popular in Texas and it took time to pass away. That his Great Society approach may not have had racist implications, but been related to education, training, and being a US citizen, is something that the media and the populace in general has ignored. No matter, he couldn't entirely escape his prejudices. I find that I can't entirely escape mine. What is taught to you when very young, stays, no matter how much your logic and education later tells you how wrong it is.
I still believe that the failure of a person or a segment of the population to achieve cannot be blamed on anyone else entirely.