Lincoln Republican
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« on: August 29, 2014, 10:15:03 PM » |
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« edited: August 29, 2014, 10:17:57 PM by Lincoln Republican »
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LBJ
-He would not have been hounded from office
-He would have been virtually uncontested for the Democratic nomination in '68
-He would have swept the primaries
-He would have retained Humphrey as Vice President
-The anti Vietnam war riots and domestic violence of that era would not have occurred
-Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy would not have contested LBJ for the nomination in '68
-Robert Kennedy would not have been assassinated, and may have contested the nomination in '72
-LBJ would have defeated Nixon in the '68 election to win another full term as President, becoming the longest serving President in history with the exception of FDR
-The national tragedy of Watergate would never have occurred
-He would have concentrated more heavily on domestic affairs, in particular social issues and expanding the great society, that is, after all, where his interests and expertise lie
-He would have gone down in history as one of the greatest reformers and innovators of American domestic and social policy, and as one of the great Presidents, extricating the U.S. from a foreign war as well as reforming the social structure of the nation
-Given his record, he may have made it possible for the Democrats to win the Presidency again in '72, extremely rare for the same party to win four Presidential elections in a row
In other words, LBJ should have done exactly as you have said, de-escalate and withdraw from Vietnam.
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