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speak easy

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Tue Aug 20, 2024, 01:30 AM Aug 2024

Joe Biden is not the most consequential president in my lifetime, [View all]

that would be LBJ: Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, Student Loans, Non-Discriminatory Immigration, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ,

... and his decision to escalate the Vietnam War after the Gulf of Tonkin 'incident'. Certainly for my cousin Donald, who was drafted, LBJ was the most consequential president in his life time. Like 100,000s he came home with severe PTSD. For the 50,000 Americans who died in South East Asia, and the many more who came back seriously wounded, LBJ was very consequential.

2020 was probably the most consequential election in my lifetime - and Joe Biden won it - before he was president. But I believe Joe is the best president, not LBJ - how many people had to die for a disasterous mistake?

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