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Was LBJ a good president?

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He represents the foolishness of trying to separate leaders into 'good' and 'bad' – and that is a vital lesson. Having said all that, ... from any great man of history awards. In Joseph Califano's brilliant The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, the president spends a distressing amount of the book naked. read more

LBJ was a great president but dominated by the anti-communist bogeyman.. Communists almost did take over in Central America in the Eighties. The interesting question about that era is whether or not our anti-communism was justified. read more

Although I took a stab at “Reevaluating the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson” in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Summer, 1990), I’ll stick with the repeatedly edited final paragraph that closes my The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson (p. 351). read more

On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th United States President, with a vision to build “A Great Society” for the American people. “A Great Society” for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. read more

The competition for worst president since the early 1930s is pretty fierce. But for my money, Lyndon B. Johnson comes in first, winning the contest of awfulness over George W. Bush by a hair. The bloody debacle of the Vietnam War has a lot to do with this judgment (just as Iraq plays a big role in my negative assessment of Bush). read more

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