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JustABozoOnThisBus

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5. What was ... What is ...

Reply to WinstonSmith4740 (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 07:54 PM

Nov 2013

LBJ did a pretty good job continuing much of the work of JFK, good and bad.

Vietnam continued to grow, civil rights continued to advance, NASA continued toward the moon.

LBJ got a lot done, maybe even more than JFK would have. JFK would have done it with more style, more class, better speeches. LBJ did it with more arm-twisting, more bullying, more profanity.

Playing a "what could have been" game, could JFK have gotten Medicare done?

Who knows?

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