So--- LBJ actually got a ton of s**t done on American Domestic politics.
He expanded Medicare and Medicaid, developed an entire policy position based upon "The War on Poverty" that included everywhere from his humble roots in Central Texas, to rural Appalachia, as well as poor communities of color in the cities and rural areas throughout America.
LBJ not only expanded the legacy of the New Deal to many communities abandoned by the progress of the New Deal, but as a poor White Boy from Texas, was actually able to get a ton of stuff done that JFK didn't do, and might well have not done, even if he had not met with an untimely demise at the hand's of a domestic terrorist in Dallas Texas on that fateful date in '63.
I honestly believe that if it weren't for Vietnam, LBJ would likely be viewed as one of the best American Presidents of the 20th Century.
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If one views the War on Poverty a success or at least a noble mission and also considers the New Deal as a great thing then naturally one would love LBJ, racist warts and all. I do not and view LBJ as the third worst president of the 20th Century behind only Wilson and FDR in terms of the damage done toward encroaching the power of the state.
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