Groups to protest at Democratic convention in North Carolina

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32. Yeah, that's just dead wrong

He consciously spent years modeling himself after FDR. He spent a lot of time trying to get his office and reporters to refer to him as LBJ as a subconscious nod to FDR (the idea of being referred to as a set of initials). Poor people didn't put FDR's picture on the wall because of WW2, they did it because of the New Deal. To this day, the fact that FDR was president during WW2 is kind of an afterthought in terms of his real legacy. No man who put that much effort into trying to imitate another man so closely would sacrifice the programs that he trumpeted as being inspired by his hero for a losing proxy war on the edge of nowhere.

LBJ was used to controlling Hubert and allowed no room for dissent. I suspect it was hard for him to logically separate himself from an issue that was so intertwined with his presidency.

I didn't blame anyone for anything. Hubert lost because he was perceived as being too close to Johnson, which was a pretty astute observation. I'm a huge fan of both of them, but if the average voter was turned off by Johnson, he made a logical choice in rejecting Hubert as more of the same. Granted, that choice was absurd because the alternate choice was Tricky Dick, but that's how it goes sometimes.

Just as a point of fact, opposition to the war increased as casualties did. I honestly think the antiwar movement really had little to do with creating opposition to that war. I think it was the weekly body counts that did it.