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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:55 AM Original message |
It's bullshit to blame the "Dump Johnson" movement for Nixon's election |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. LBJ had a LOT ego. Nt |
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blueclown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 03:01 AM Response to Original message |
2. I just will never get the smearing of perhaps the best Dem president we've had since FDR and Truman. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 03:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I respect LBJ on his domestic record |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 04:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Easy target--that's why. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. I think LBJ will always be a mixed bag President |
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BackToThe60s (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 03:16 AM Response to Original message |
4. Glavnyi vrag |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 03:24 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. NO |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 07:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. google says it's russian for "main enemy" |
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iamtechus (868 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 04:42 AM Response to Original message |
6. No amount of good works at home could outweigh the crimes against humanity |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
9. I worked for Humphrey in the DC headquarters and I can |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 09:17 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Oh yeah, I'm sure a ton of pissed off white voters would have switched from Nixon to Humphrey |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:06 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. It wasn't an electoral landslide(you miight be thinking of 1972) |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:23 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. If Humphrey had been able to break from Johnson on the war earlier |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 10:58 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Thanks for that bit of information. |
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MessiahRp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
15. And RFK would have beaten Nixon had he not been murdered. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:35 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. He would have...as would Eugene McCarthy had the party nominated him |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
17. 1968 and 2008 were my most active years regarding POTUS elections. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:06 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Interesting. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Another HS field trip. It was at the Cow Palace in South San Francisco Fall 1968. |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
19. I'm surprised those anti-hippie Establishment Dems are COMPLAINING that Nixon got elected |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
20. I've never regretted voting Peace & Freedom in '68. |
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