Reply #59: That was how I felt at the time. I was a teenager at the time he

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was president.

My impression of him, by '67-'68 at least, was that he was very unpopular.

Vietnam was the reason I disliked him so much. Vietnam dragged on year after year, guys were getting drafted year after year...it seemed like a never-ending stalemate quagmire.

Now I can see the good things he did--the Civil Rights act, and Medicare started up during his administration.

At that time, too, the economy was good, good jobs were plentiful, there was a lot of optimism in the air. Basically in the US, the economy had been pretty good since the end of WWII, and this seemed the normal state of affairs.

Ah, little did we know what lay ahead!